Since I started lecture about the io9 Space subsite onTwitter , promote tweet in my feed switched to adverting way to deflect fire bread . I had n’t previously considered that the high correlation between sleep with uranology and night owls would result in an evenly stiff correlation with breakfast incompetence .
While puzzling over the failures of targeted advertising ( although this is admittedly less of an epic fail than the three months I obtain only promoted tweet in languages I do not interpret ) , I also realise that my favourite advice on preparing perfect pledge is ideal for cosmologists , astronomers , and others with a more compromising vista towards the one-dimensionality of metre . reserve me to introducePiet Hein , a Danish scientist , mathematician , and author of grooks :
TIMING TOASTGrook on how to cleaning woman for yourself
There ’s an art of knowing when . Never endeavor to guess . pledge until it smokes and thentwenty seconds less .
Grooks were issue in the daily newspaper , intended as a serial of reflexion about the mankind , a style to represent with words , and , during the occupation of Denmark , as a method acting of supporting the resistance . They were roll up in a series of 20 volumes between 1940 and 1963 , all now out of print . The author did what he could to pass around their distribution , including painting them on butter dishes and translating them into Esperanto .
If time - trip to get the complete toast is n’t quite your style , he also wrote grooks touch on matter in astronomy , geology , math , and the fuzzy intersection between physics and philosophy . observe in the theme of instructional grooks , if you found the advice on toast too difficult to execute , conceive this flake of homework for your body and brainpower :
ASTRO - GYMNASTICS
Do - it - yourself grook
Go on a starlit night ,
stand on your head ,
leave your feet dangling
outwards into space ,
and let the starry
firmament you step
be , for the here and now ,
your elect al-Qa’ida .
Feel Earth ’s colossal weightiness
of ice and granite ,
of molten magma ,
water , atomic number 26 , and lead ;
and concisely hold
this funnily solid planet
balanced upon
your strangely upstanding chief .
study more about Piet Hein , and check out his mathematically - based interior designs , onhis website . As the Grooks are out - of - print and hard to witness , you canpeek at a larger sample , although it ’s still small compared to the one thousand he wrote . To see what I ’m saying that go along getting me mis - target by kick upstairs tweet , encounter me at@mikamckinnon .
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