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Slowed down footage of a bee squirting a clear liquid from its anus,, taken at the Auckland Botanical Gardens. Originally the event happened fast enough, 4 frames at 30 fps, that it was only viewable upon being slowed down. Since my camera scans from top to bottom, and the bee was positioned in the lower portion of the video, I believe this event actually took more like a tenth of a second instead of an approximately an eighth.
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century.
Beckett’s work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the “Theatre of the Absurd”. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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I have been thinking a lot about “happiness” recently. There are many different definitions of this word. In an English language dictionary defines “happiness” as:
elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, high,intoxication; ecstasy, euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana,paradise, rapture, rapturousness, ravishment, seventh heaven, transport; delectation, delight, enjoyment,pleasure; cheer, cheerfulness, comfort, exuberance,gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness,jocundity, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance,jubilation, lightheartedness, merriness, mirth; content,contentedness, gratification, satisfaction, triumph.
Here are a few ideas I have about what happiness is, and what it is not….
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This is my favorite classical music composition ever. This performance is delivered with precision and passion by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra:
Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125 “Choral”
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770, Bonn, Germany — 1827, Vienna, Austria)
Beethoven is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived. His 9th Symphony combines the worlds of vocal and instrumental music in a manner never before attempted. His personal life was marked by a heroic struggle against encroaching deafness, and some of his most important works were composed during the last 10 years of his life when he was quite unable to hear.
Performance by Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Christian Thielemann, conductor
1 Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2 Scherzo. Molto vivace — Presto
3 Adagio molto e cantabile
4 Presto — Allegro ma non troppo
Annette Dasch, soprano
Mihoko Fujimura, contralto
Piotr Beczala, tenor
Georg Zeppenfeld, bass
