Britain’s War Machine and The Wages of Destruction – "Genocide, argues Tooze, was built into the German war plan from the very start. Hitler’s strategic math required him to starve to death millions of urban eastern Europeans in order to extract the grain to feed a war-fighting Germany cut off from world trade."

Proudly Fraudulent: Interview With Kenneth Goldsmith “patchwriting—a way of weaving together various shards of preexisting texts into a tonally cohesive whole and presenting it as if it’s original”

The Red Schoendienst by Patrick Dubuque NotGraphs Baseball

Steven Soderbergh, Political Theorist Key quote: “The American government is not designed to run things well – it is designed to prevent civil war or violent revolution by mediating irreconcilable differences between regional and other large interests.”

The Pain of Paying by danariely Dan Ariely

The Intricate Anatomy Of UX Design by joberholtzer I Love Charts

Ruarri Joseph :: Until The Luck Runs Dry ruarrijoseph

Fearless brain-damaged patients are terrified of suffocation “Rather than being functions of the brain with their own pathways, fear and pleasure should be thought of as the end results of a system of survival circuits that together regulate functions such as arousal and motivation to meet our basic needs. These survival circuits are present in […]

The Wheel of the Devil On Vine, gifs and the power of the loop

Is Sweden a Red State? by Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia