‘They come in from the pond to pick up their grain and I delight in watching them.’ As far as I can tell, this is the first time in literature that an animal is honoured not for being beautiful, or loyal, or strong, but for the sheer pleasure you get from seeing another living ...
To sum it up: Whenever I encounter a stupid, irrational person I could think to myself how much more awesome I am or how lucky I am, i.e. engage in downward comparisons (indeed, research has shown that those are good for your happiness). To put it succinctly: Replace anger with prid...
the purpose of even those entries is to point to bigger questions, questions that I hope my life story can help illuminate in some way. So I’m going to talk today a little bit about my reasons for deciding to marry. The particular reasons...
3 How Smart Am I? IQ Test Scores. 4 'Smart' Is Trending. 6 Why Is 'Smart' Trending? 1. Educational and Cognitive Capital 8 2. Self-Improvement and Self-Optimization 13 3. Maintaining Cognitive Ability and Brain Health with Aging 16 2 Being smart is increasingly a highly prized attribute...
“Nietzsche” - I say this when I want to sound like I’ve read stuff 1:19:09 Movement Critic (Rodney Martin) @Luke Ford I had an Israeli IDF friend chastise the hell out of “American” Jews over the Hebrew issue, i.e. “American Jews don’t ev...
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World by Michael Shellenberger | Quillette Idiocracy | Prime Video Yes, Science Is Political | Scientific American A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker | Scientific American < 592: Do the Math: Am I a Psychopath? | Feedback Friday ...
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t) Brené Brown Making the Journey From “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” 15 min 4.4 The Art of Living Thich Nhat Hanh Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now 23 min 4.7 Atomic Habits James Clear An Easy & Proven Way to Build...
The two drugs that I am discussing here provide a number of revealing contrasts from all possible points of view, the first being in the price-hike field. The price of Parnate (tranylcypromine) has for many years been very modest since it has been out-of-patent for ages. But more recent...
I am not here to dismiss math and languages as unimportant, on the contrary, but do we really need 6 billion mathematicians? No! Some people are born dancers or artists, but we punch that out of them with arguments that they will never be able to earn a living doing that. Robinson ...
I am sure you are right to want to focus in on these places– they are where the real work of philosophy gets done (as you note by pointing to Plato in your initial post–Socrates could not stand to let it rest with a shrug and a “very well, I contradict myself. I contain ...