Stanford researchers’ cooling glove ‘better than steroids’

Prisoners Of The Narrative | The American Conservative “Narratives are useful insofar as they give us a reasonably reliable model through which to interpret evidence and events. They cease to be helpful when they become an impediment to seeing the truth. The trick is determining when a narrative tips from being enlightening to, well, endarkening.”

How do we find meaning in life? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

OldHossRadbourn In my day we learned the hard way to keep thespians away from politicians. RIP, Mr. Lincoln.

Dan Lewis — OMG and the Hopeful Moment: The New SEO “All these people sharing your stuff — even in the basest way possible — will help a part of your intended audience find your thoughts. That audience will read every word. And you couldn’t have gotten there otherwise.”

Mike_FTW Ford’s Gap: The amount of time between launching something new and forwarding @ftrain’s “Why Wasn’t I Consulted” post to some idiot.

king_kaufman Great answer to “What have you learned as a police officer about life and society that most people don’t know?” http://t.co/pnDIolo3

Grim’s Hall: One of the Big Questions “That suggests that there is something else at work — something that (if we view the scale in a way that favors the large scale) appears to be an ordering principle in Nature itself. It could be a unifying principle that explains the rise of life, as well […]

Bootcamp Model of Learning Ben Casnocha, Ben Casnocha

Essay on the Apollo program and spirituality “The Apollo Program was an elaborate demonstration of how even the blandest among us are under the heel of the spirit. “