What relationship do the number of unique words have to the quality of the work?
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by bionicteaching
I was looking at syllabi from famous authors and saw a paper requiring 3,500 words. I went to WolframAlpha to see how many pages that was. After seeing it was about 14 double spaced pages, I clicked on the option to use “words” as a unit and got the image you see above.
I have witnessed a murmuration, I just called it a bird cloud. I was struck by their natural beauty, but also could see analogies to other patterns of nature. This is how an electron cloud around an atom must look. This is what a summer breeze would look like. Even more abstract, this is what the “I have a Dream” speech looked like.
Thoughts…
Murmuration from Islands & Rivers on Vimeo.
Murmuration Photos and Video
http://www.sciencedump.com/content/murmuration
Murmuration research
http://www.collective-behavior.com/publ/KingSumpter2012.pdf
Related Video: Bubble Man on Beach (I see this as an abstract notion of a poets life.)
Can you create a sentence that isn’t corrupted by the Google Translation torture test? Who can create the longest sentence that remains pure? The most complex? When do things break down? Why?
The video above was on Boing Boing.