Denmark in the Holocaust: Bo Lidegaard’s “Countrymen,” Reviewed “If a people come to rely for their protection on human rights alone, on the mutual recognition of common humanity, they are already in serious danger. The Danish story seems to tell us that it is not the universal human chain that binds peoples together in extremity, […]

The boy whose brain could unlock autism — Matter — Medium

Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts “The emphasis on the present moment is perhaps Zen’s most distinctive characteristic. In our Western relationship with time, in which we compulsively pick over the past in order to learn lessons from it and then project into a hypothetical future in which those lessons can be applied, the present moment […]

Time’s Kantian Wedge “If I might cite the much-maligned Benedict, the Church does essentially three things: it cares for the poor; it worships God; and it evangelizes. Isolate any of the three from the other two, and distortions set in.”

Tarot Cards and Tech Products — Product Design — Medium “In his mind, whether or not palm readings are “real” or backed by science is beside the point — they are a means to an end.”

Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics “They are very powerful calculational techniques, but they are also incredibly suggestive,” Skinner said. “They suggest that thinking in terms of space-time was not the right way of going about this.”

Sabermetric Research: Explaining “How much time is wasted struggling through murky explanations in pedantic textbooks, or incoherent notes from class, when you might have been able to understand it in five minutes if it had been done a bit better?”

Not Merely the Finest TV Documentary Series Ever Made “His argument (one of the delights of The Ascent of Man is that it consists entirely of argument) begins by directing our attention away from the common heritage of animals and toward one particular difference between humans and all other present-day species: Every other species is […]