Asia, Credit and the End of Stuff “the only things that are scarce are good ideas (technology, design) and human attention (clicks, impressions, brands)”

Philip K. Dick on Human Heroism “The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it.”

Expected cavity rates on back molars

emu by Latyrx New Series Night Animals – This was made using two of my images.

Riptide: Introduction “What really happened to the news business”

Adventures in Anaphora “For my beginning students, anaphora is a device they already have some familiarity with through popular culture and history. Pointing out this knowledge to students can be a way for them to enter into poetry and to demystify what students can see as a daunting subject.”

Adam Gopnik: The New Neuro-Skeptics “In “Neuro,” Rose and Abi-Rached see the real problem: neuroscience can often answer the obvious questions but rarely the interesting ones. It can tell us how our minds are made to hear music, and how groups of notes provoke neural connections, but not why Mozart is more profound than Manilow.”

Joseph and His Brothers “The story is prioritizing the conflict of familial envy over the more grandiose problem of divine revelation.”