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Microfiction, the Great Plague, and More
During the Great Plague of 1665, the Common Council of the City of London decreed: “All dogs and cats should be immediately killed”... more » The wisdom…
Jun 2
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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…
Jun 1
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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…
May 31
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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 »…
May 30
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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…
May 29
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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…
May 26
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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…
May 25
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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…
May 24
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