“Cancer is like an obscene parody of being pregnant.” On “losing” Pascal’s Wager: “I hope you noticed I didn’t try to curry favor.” “In case…
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“Cancer is like an obscene parody of being pregnant.” On “losing” Pascal’s Wager: “I hope you noticed I didn’t try to curry favor.” “In case…
Aeon has an essay by Nolen Gertz that lays out varieties and evolution of nihilism. He says, following Nietzche, that it can be active or…
The small things are easier to define, and to understand. These are matters of fact, not of values, and the stakes can get to be…
Thursday Seth Godin shared this picture from the European Space Agency – 84 million stars. He wrote that the act of zooming in shapes our…
Our theatre-afficiando daughter was cast in another play today and had her first read through of the script. We knew going in she’d be part…
This is a good question to use on any pent up anxiety or concern. It is an excellent first pass to get to the real…
It is natural to spot differences, to emphasize them. It is almost uncomfortable the more one deeply considers that we are more like whatever we…
…just the stories. Don Larsen died last week. What will be remembered? The pressure must have been all the more for the close score. The…
The fear of losing work used to be far more pervasive in the world of personal computing. The machine that lost power, a disk that…
In Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene I, the Duke gives a quote: Thou hast nor youth nor age, But, as it were, an after-dinner’s…