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The Life-Extension Business, and More
With funding from Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel, the life-extension business is booming. Enter the biochemist Charles Brenner, the longevity skeptic…
Renaissance Jokes, Chuck Berry, and More
Beyond eating, drinking, speaking, and smiling: 42 ways of communicating by bringing your hands to your mouth... more » Anthropologist of filth. Chuck…
A Repository of Impressively Absurd Feats, and More
Guinness World Records have always been a repository of impressively absurd feats. Does it have a place in a world where weird is commonplace?... more »…
Looking at Vermeer, and More
How sad to try to sell your soul to a dictator and find that the dictator isn't buying. Consider the case of the composer Hans Pfitzner... more » At her…
The Idea of Secrets, and More
Rules can be thick or thin, says Lorraine Daston. “Behind every thin rule is a thick rule, cleaning up after it”... more » Derek Parfit spent most of…
The Birth of Romanticism, and More
There is no such thing as color, only the people who perceive it. Sky isn’t blue, the sun isn’t yellow, snow isn’t white... more » Birth of romanticism…
Woo-Woo Rationalists, and More
For rationalists, nothing should interfere with apprehending the world as it is. So why are they turning to religion, ritual, and all things woo…
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