The way it should be: “Imagine: a wild pig comes upon a factory farm, and decides to stay?”
This is easily the most wonderful story I’ve heard about farming:
Dan Barber: A surprising parable of foie gras
The most spectacular part starts at 10:10, but the entire thing is amazing.
We’ve decided to give up reading In Search Of Lost Time. Here is a fairly accurate description of why:
He’s not joking: it really is like that. Interesting, yes, but not nearly interesting enough.
Here are some incredibly beautiful images:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/george_smoot_on_the_design_of_the_universe.html
It feels like I didn’t quite realize how large the universe was. I was imagining that it was very large but mostly empty, trailing off out beyond the galaxies. The universe does not look empty in those pictures; it looks full. Somehow a full universe seems much larger than an empty universe.