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Mind - Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake
The purpose of dreams is physiological, not pyschological at all.
Author's Personal Forecast: Not Always Sunny, but Pleasantly Skeptical
Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-Sided: "It can't all be fixed by assertiveness training."
Strange New World
Review of Atwood's The Year of the Flood, on how the End can happen in the name of a new beginning.
Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teenagers
Twitter is the adult thing to do. "It seems more, like, professional, and not something that a teenager would do.."
Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World
"We are, all of us, abandoning taxonomy, the ordering and naming of life."
Street Smart: Urban Dictionary
The Urban Dictionary is widely considered the best place ot privately educate yourself about indelicate pop phenomena.
The Case for Working With Your Hands
In praise of those who actually do useful things (knowledge workers step aside.).
The 10 Genes of a Human Flu Virus, Furiously Evolving
David Spiro: "[Viruses] have managed to exploit our modern culture and spred around the world."
Genius:The Modern View
The key factor separating genius from the merely accomplished is...practice.
Let Them Eat Tweets - Why Twitter Is a Trap
Twitter is so very middle class.
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The implications of Sterling’s idea are painful for Twitter types. The connections that feel like wealth to many of us — call us the impoverished, we who treasure our smartphones and tally our Facebook friends — are in fact meager, more meager even than inflated dollars. What’s worse, these connections are liabilities that we pretend are assets. We live on the Web in these hideous conditions of overcrowding only because — it suddenly seems so obvious — we can’t afford privacy. And then, lest we confront our horror, we call this cramped ghetto our happy home!
The Soul of Medicine: Tales From the Bedside
On the doctor-patient relationship: "It is horrifying what docotrs used to get away with."
The Biggest of Puzzles Brought Down to Size
"It's really just critical thinking, breaking down seemingly complicated problems into simpler problems."
In One Ear and Out the Other
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Welcome to the human brain, your three-pound throne of wisdom with the whoopee cushion on the seat.
A Nation of Cowards?
Now that we know this, are we ready to talk? Maybe not yet. Talking frankly about race is still hard because it's confusing and uncomfortable.
NYT Prototype Article Skimmer
Is anyone using the New York Times article skimmer prototype?
The Two Languages of Academic Freedom
You don't often encounter radical pedagogy except as comfortable theoretical debates.This is what it looks like in practice.
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