there's something wrong with the music that the silk road ensemble produces. but i can't pinpoint it.

awesomeness.

monogamy is evolutionarily advantageous

formation of monogamy ensures diversity in the human gene pool.

my reasoning is as follows.
a human male in the case of reproduction is in the position of choice because females are limited by pregnancy. given the freedom, a human male will spread his sperms as far as possible, which is the seen today as the animcal instinct, and have multiple children concurrently. females however will have the burden of waiting for one child to come before having another. without monogamy, only the strongest and smartest guys get laid. soon the human gene pool will be filled with the traits of a small fraction of males. therefore the species would be less adaptive towards the changing environment.

when monogamy is enforced through cultural and social structures, however, a great many more guys can get laid due to removal of monopoly.

this also explains another problem that i have been thinking about for a long time. that is, why humans have evolved to wear clothes. by covering up the private parts, humans are less aroused sesually when they meet the opposite sex. on one hand, this may shift our attention to more "constructive" activities such as the development of civilization, which will benefit the survival of the species. (although i do not see how we could have known this before we created civilization). on the other hand, this could also be a by-product of the desire to keep monogamy, so that each person is only aroused by his or her partners in designated situations. and therefore benefit the species.

there might be a nother reason for clothing. maybe it acts like a dam, so that a human only conducts sexual acts when they meet the most desirable partner. this is because?

it's good to get up in the morning. (although i didn't really sleep much.) after my vector calculus midterm, i am sitting at sierra summit savoiuring a good omlette with the company georges brassens' adorable songs. and i'm looking at the pretty picture i took yesterday. and i think to myself, life can't be better :)

squared circles

touring bike
Originally uploaded by LeoL30.

seeing people's fascination about squared circular object is fascinating.

look at this!!!

circle poster

In the colorful reflection we have what is life. - J.W. v. Goethe

i want to see the world!!!!

quote of the day

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz

shouldn't i ask the opposite?

kongerei.

have you ever heard any overtone singing? have you heard tuvan and mongolian singings, like singing into the mountains and the grassland? i have only heard overtone singing once and have only heard mongolian long songs, but not throat singing. it's overwhelming.

kronos quartet got the throat singers from the land of Tuva to sing this kongerei for them, and for us. the ancient and sorrowful yearning therefore rings in my headphones. the strings keep a stead pulse, with the cello crying like the horse head fiddle alongside. immediately visible to me is a picture of vast plateau, on which a shepherd and his herd move steadily. he sings a low fundamental tone, heavy and coarse. suddenly there's this other sound. a whistle, a bird song, or a flute, floating indeterminably at the top. and then his sound becomes part of nature. and he moves on, a person without home. a people without home. a lonely people in the midst of the vastness. singing, and moving.

maybe great people shouldn't get married. maybe each great man should marry a housewife and each great woman should get herself a househusband. or, a great couple should just get a maid. damn.

»Clara has composed a series of small pieces, which show a musical and tender ingenuity such as she has never attained before. But to have children, and a husband who is always living in the realm of imagination, does not go together with composing. She cannot work at it regularly, and I am often disturbed (Oh Really?)to think how many profound ideas are lost because she cannot work them out.«
—Robert Schumann in the joint diary of Robert and Clara Schumann.

»Composing gives me great pleasure...there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.«
—Clara herself on composing.

»I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?«
—Clara Schumann at 20

-wikipedia