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BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Brave New World
Brave New World is a lurid, satirical dystopia in which the hopes and fears of the 1930s are writ large and yet the book seems uncannily prescient about our own time. But why did Huxley feel the need to write it and is Brave New World really as dystopian as we are led to believe?
Op-Ed Contributors - The End of the Financial World as We Know It - NYTimes.com
Incredibly, intelligent people the world over remain willing to lend us money and even listen to our advice; they appear not to have realized the full extent of our madness. We have at least a brief chance to cure ourselves. But first we need to ask: of what?
Justin Blanton | I’ve switched to Google Reader, for good
No way to batch-change all of your feeds to sort by oldest post. I prefer to read my news from oldest to newest — as events occurred/posts were published — but Google Reader won’t let you change this except on a per-feed/folder basis.
Why do straights hate gays? - Los Angeles Times
You may say you don't hate us, but the people you vote for do, so what's the difference? Our own country's democratic process declares us to be unequal. Which means, in a democracy, that our enemy is you... You hate us. And sadly, we let you.
Michi Knows - Maybe Google Wanted to be Sued: YouTube and Plan B
No matter how you spun it, a lawsuit was waiting to pounce on YouTube...And even still, Google bought YouTube. And now the billion dollar war has begun... And I wondered: Maybe Google actually wanted to be sued.
Reason Magazine - South Park Libertarians
The show is saying that there is a middle ground, that most of us actually live in this middle ground, and that all you extremists are the ones who have the microphones because you’re the most interesting to listen to, but actually this group isn’t ev
Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism - Mises Institute
Those who are highly intelligent but ill-disposed toward the market are more likely to choose an academic career. For this reason, the universities come to be filled with those intellectuals who were favorably disposed toward socialism from the beginning.
Putting 9/11 into perspective - Los Angeles Times
To fight them effectively, we need coolness, resolve and stamina. But we also need to overcome long habit and remind ourselves that not every enemy is in fact a threat to our existence.
Worldwide Success » The Truth About Rich Dad Poor Dad - What Robert Kiyosaki Does Not Want You to Know
If you are looking for a quick summary on how to be financially successful, I would suggest a good place to start would be to focus on the very fundamentals that Kiyosaki likes to ridicule
Theocacao: Apple's Secret Ingredient
I think the key is, simply, fearlessness. Over and over again, they choose something that feels right and they pursue until it either succeeds or is no longer interesting. It's intuition.
PBS | I, Cringely . July 20, 2006 - They Wrap Fish, Don't They?
If it's a big story that's important to a lot of people, the Internet either beats it to death or misses it completely.
10 Reasons Why High Definition DVD Formats Have Already Failed
Burned by 8-track, laserdisc, SACD, and DVD-Audio (and possibly soon non-HDCP HDTV) – these war-weary consumers are going to think long and hard before jumping onto any new technological bandwagons.
Against School - John Taylor Gatto
Theorists from Plato to Rousseau to our own Dr. Inglis knew that if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, the
Wired News: What If They Gave a War...?
The real voices of dissent and engagement are found on the internet these days, but the internet is simply too diffuse to effectively galvanize a revolution.
TIME.com Print Page: TIME Magazine -- My Problem with Christianism
I mean merely by the term Christianist the view that religious faith is so important that it must also have a precise political agenda. It is the belief that religion dictates politics and that politics should dictate the laws for everyone, Christian and
Rolling Stone : The Worst President in History?
George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th... there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier
Charlene Li's Blog: Google Calendar creates a platform for "time" applications
I do think it’s an advanced user service, in much the same way that Gmail attracts a more sophisticated email user. In that way, it’s a great fit with Google’s target audience of early adopters.
Bertrand Russell: Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed a crucial stage at which we made the worst mistake in human history. Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and ended up with s
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