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From Psyche Magazine: The French performance artist Bastien Dausse built the ‘contemporary circus company’ Compagnie Barks around his abiding ‘desire to play with gravity’. This reality-bending video features two performances
Continue readingTwo Gravity-Defying Performances Play With the Physics of Life on Earth
by Patrick Lin at Singularity Hub: Can food technology really change society? Yes, just consider the seismic impact of the microwave oven. With that technology, it was suddenly possible to
Continue readingRobots Are Coming to the Kitchen—What That Could Mean for Society and Culture
From the Daily Stoic: Of course, it seems quite old to us. Seneca lived 20 centuries ago. Cato was born in the year 95 BC. As Marcus Aurelius writes in
Niall Ferguson at The Free Press: According to Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper is “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.” I had never heard of Cooper
I could be up all nightwithout a single line to write;………………………I might be ass-in-chair till 1st lighteyes propped with toothpicks.………………………Open, I might sit with digitspoised over a keyboard………………………like condors on
Lisa Dittrich in Phys.Org: Picture two people sitting in a movie theater, both watching the screen: Are they seeing the same thing? Or is the movie playing out differently in each
James Pethokoukis at Faster, Please!: A 2016 economists survey found a whopping zero percent disagreeing with the idea that allowing “many more immigrants with advanced degrees in science and engineering”
Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs. … Continue readingRethinking Addiction as a Chronic Brain Disease
Tell me, Rock, do you thinkmy mother misses feeling gravity’s sly tugas she lifted her hand to brush my cheek?And would that be enough to lure her backto sniff her
by Jay Solomon at The Front Page: Hardly a day goes by without a reminder of that fact. Yesterday, it was the news out of Ukraine, where two Russian missiles
Jonathan Portes in The Guardian: In the immediate aftermath of this summer’s riots, what did the British public consider to be the most important issue facing the country? Immigration, the polls said,
Continue readingWhy We’re Getting the Immigration Debate All Wrong
Mary L Trump at The Good In Us: Since Voices Carry, to one degree or another, Aimee’s music has been in my life ever since. When I first listened to