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Weekend Edition: 10-11

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Moral Dilemma We Face in the Age of Humans (“From the standpoint of human origins, the starting point in thinking about the Age of Humans or the Anthropocene is that we live in the world by altering it.”)

Blog Headline of the Week

Jennifer Lawrence Shames Nude-Photo Thieves, […]

Weekend Edition: 10-4

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The Body Electric (“Michael Utley does not remember much about his death.”)

Why I Decided War Reporting Was No Longer Worth the Risk (“Why risk it all to get the facts for people who increasingly seem only to seek out the information they want and brand the stories […]

Weekend Edition: 9-27

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Why I Hope to Die at 75 (“Over time, and without our conscious choice, we transform our lives. We don’t notice that we are aspiring to and doing less and less.”)

Off-Hand Observations of the Week

Christmas trees and decorations on display in stores already?!?!? Or was the store […]

Weekend Edition: 8-23

Bulletin Board

I’ve got some stuff coming up that will make posting even less regular, including the Weekend Edition

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Conversations with the Dead (“I know that on a page somewhere on my shelves, staring down at me now, is the question I’m struggling with today, put into words long […]

Weekend Edition: 8-16

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The god effect (“The same mechanism that enhances our creativity – juicing up the right-sided limbic and prefrontal brain regions with dopamine – also opens us up to religious ideas and experience. But if these brain circuits are pushed too far, thinking becomes not merely divergent but outright deviant […]