Purifying Our Political Culture “Robespierre, who did more than anyone else to bring about the king’s execution, sat in that house with the windows closed, unwilling to look upon the result of his work (he was squeamish). Later, when he had arranged for Danton, once his dear friend and fellow Jacobin, to go to the […]

State of the Species “Margulis was no apologist for unthinking destruction. Still, she couldn’t help regarding conservationists’ preoccupation with the fate of birds, mammals, and plants as evidence of their ignorance about the greatest source of evolutionary creativity: the microworld of bacteria, fungi, and protists. More than 90 percent of the living matter on earth […]

Asteroid Belts Could Be Key to Finding Alien Life Wired UK, Wired Science

Stop Procrastinating By ‘Clearing To Neutral’ CTN is a POST-activity habit. AFTER you have done your main activity, do your post-activity work (clear to neutral). This means you set everything up so it is ready for the next time.

How to Stop Illegal Downloads danariely, Dan Ariely

A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution

Flag on the play “There is a reason why the hardest news in sports—stories of concussions, doping scandals, the involvement of teams in the transnational workings of dirty capital—not only isn’t broken by star columnists, but is rarely seriously addressed by them.”

Self-Healing Concrete and Other 21st-Century Miracles Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

Music and Life – Alan Watts seandulac

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