“Informed by meetings with top physicists and cosmologists at MIT and Cornell University, “Dark Matter” is intended to be the first in a series of albums that GZA—born Gary Grice in Brooklyn in 1966—will put out in the next few years, several of which are designed to get a wide audience hooked on science.”
I’m positively giddy over this. If you smashed all the summers of my life together into one giant summer, GZA’s set at Rock The Bells last year would still be one of the highlights.
Cool to hear that he’s rerecording Liquid Swords with a live band… AND now he’s hanging out with astrophysicists. Just. Wow.
“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. Now c’mon and live, Live, LIVE!!!”Rosalind Russell
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I didn’t have a Barbie like this when I was kid. She is wearing that Fro proudly. (Taken with instagram)
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The Goddess MaatMaát is ethical principles collectively embracing the values of truth, justice, harmony, balance, cosmological order, reciprocity and propriety.Personified as a goddess, Maát is depicted as a woman wearing an ostrich feather on her head, a symbol of the principles she represents. Controlling the movement of the stars and the seasonal flooding of the Nile River, Maát also had codes of tradition and customs. For all Egyptians to live in a happy, prosperous and peaceful environment, they had to live within the order established by Maát. The pharaoh, as absolute ruler, was the individual most responsible to manifest in life, through all his actions, the entire concept of Maát. Deviation from the tenets of Maát could prove disastrous for the pharaoh.Maát was central to funerary practices in which if the deceased had been found to not have followed the concept of Maát during his life (if he had lied or cheated or killed or done anything against Maát) his heart was devoured by a demon (she was called Ammut — Devouress of the Dead) and he died the final death. If the heart weighed the same as Maát, the deceased was allowed to go on to the afterlife. The heart of a person was considered the center of intellect and memory.
Ma’at 4 life
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Big Sister
The Big Sisters are post-pubescent Little Sisters that have become unstable in Rapture’s environment. Eight years after the events of BioShock, they are charged with maintaining the ecological balance in Rapture. Their extreme level of powers, far beyond normal Plasmid users, can be attributed to their bodies adapting the ADAM created in their bodies as children while they were still developing. Thus they have a much more natural affinity for the powers that ADAM creates.
The Big Sisters are unusually tall and gangly, since they are at the stage of sprouting from youth to adulthood.Documents from There’s Something in the Sea described the Big Sister as 6’ 10” tall, and having a shoe size of 7.5.
Each Big Sister wears a diving suit reminiscent of those of the Big Daddies, but with their own distinct aesthetic since each is assembled from scavenged items rather than manufactured. These suits were designed by Gilbert Alexander, as heard in the Big Sister Audio Diary. A Big Sister helmet consists of a large sphere with two portholes. Despite their limited amount of armor, Big Sisters can withstand the pressure required to venture out of Rapture and into the ocean.
Big Sisters are formidable beings that are known for their agility and Plasmid powers. They wield large, wrist-mounted needles on their left arms, which are used primarily for melee attacks and extracting ADAM in a manner similar to a Little Sister’s extracting needle and allows the Big Sister to regenerate health in combat from Splicers. Big Sisters are the only creatures in Rapture known to be able to damage the exterior glass windows of the city, something that shooting bullets, grenades, a drill or any other weapon have failed to do.
The Big Sisters’ were meant to accommodate, protect and transport Little Sisters and they have a cage-like basket on their backs for such purposes. The Little Sisters appear to frequently travel with the Big Sisters, and they have taken to decorating their refuges by adorning their cage-baskets with ribbons, and scrawling childish doodles on the Big Sisters’ oxygen tanks.
Roshar’s work always gets an automatic REBLOG. Every time.
