The Universe Suddenly Hates Satire
by Erik Hoel at The Intrinsic Perspective: There’s a saying on the internet: “The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.” People like to say this saying. Here’s Elon Musk
Thursday Poem: Apocalypse
Within, without the cosmos wide am I;In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all.A birthless, deathless Spirit that moves and is stillEver abides within to hear my call.
“Hasina Wajid’s Blunders are Similar to What’s Happening in Pakistan Now”
by Shams Zaheer Abbas @ FOCUUS: Hasina Wajid (HW) cannot be compared with Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari. It is an insult to compare Hasina Wajid with Marium Safdar
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Charles Darwin the Geologist
by Robert Muir-Wood at OUP: Who was Charles Darwin the geologist? Was he a nephew, or maybe a cousin, of the illustrious naturalist, who first published the theory of evolution
Justice Gorsuch Warns Biden To ‘Be Careful’ With Attempts To Control Supreme Court
J.D. Tuccille at Reason: Asked this week by Fox News’s Shannon Bream to respond to the Biden administration’s proposed restrictions on the Supreme Court, as well as a constitutional amendment
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Wednesday Poem: Elevation
Above the lakes, above the vales,The mountains and the woods, the clouds, the seas,Beyond the sun, beyond the ether,Beyond the confines of the starry spheres, My soul, you move with
No Muslims in My Backyard?
Christian Britschgi at Reason: On Sunday, The New York Times published an in-depth look at a development battle in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, where a local farmer’s plan to sell his
Why Have So Many Cultural Practices Survived Without Written Records?
by Helena Miton at Aeon Magazine: You can’t speak like they spoke. You can’t farm like they farmed. You can’t dance, or heal wounds, or greet people like they did.
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A Road Atlas for Self-Reckoning
Erik Gleibermann in LA Review of Books (LRB): HUMAN BEINGS ARE autobiographers by nature. Whether or not we ultimately write down any words, we can’t help mentally composing narratives out
Bangladesh Protests: Street Art (Video)
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Tuesday Poem: What the Fish Say
My godson wanted to go look at fish but I told him, today, beauty is canceled.We cried. I felt bad. I counted the unbeautiful like broken ribs.Shrapnel in the olive
Report From the Weeds
by Mike Bendzela at 3 Quarks Daily: Today is a bit of an experiment. I take the row covers off of two forty-foot rows of beans (three varieties) as the