Category: Lifestyle
Why Moral Progress Feels Annoying
Daniel Kelly at Aeon: It’s not that you don’t care about animal suffering. In other…
Hollywood Didn’t Know Exactly What to Do With Donald Sutherland – So They Did Everything With Him
Daryl Sparkes at The Conversation: I don’t think Hollywood knew what to do with Donald…
Facts v. Values, Numbers v. Ideology: Which is More Important for a Healthy Democracy?
Osita Nwanevu and Oliver Traldi at Wisdom of Crowds: Dear Osita, You and I both…
“If you Want to Respect the Rule of Law You’ve Got to Start From the Original Law Giver, Which Was Moses”
Liz Wolfe at Reason Roundup: “The Commandments do not confine themselves to arguably secular matters,…
Snake Plant
Shared by Arif Mirza, Toronto: NASA has classified Sansevieria–now called Snake plant–as an air purifier…
Ancient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected For Sacrifice
By Freda Kreier at The New York Times: In the spring of 1967, workers building…
Whole Foods’ John Mackey: We Must Change How We Think About Capitalism
Nick Gillespie at Reason: Today’s guest is John Mackey, the co-founder and former CEO of…
Why I am a Jew
by David Winner at 3 Quarks Daily: Throughout most of my life, I periodically napped…
A Conversation With My ‘They’
Dan Piraro at Bizarro: I successfully raised two children to adulthood who, until recently, I…
Is Social Media the New Tobacco?
Andrew Ross Sorkin in The New York Times Newsletter: The U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy,…
Why Couples Should Share Their Finances – to a Point
Bryan Keogh at The Conversation: My fiancée and I recently opened our first joint checking…
Gut Bacteria Slip into the Eye
Rachael Gorman in The Scientist: The retina is layered with photoreceptors, a variety of other neurons,…