2024.08.31
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Gary Snyder, Speaking for the Trees
Gary Snyder, sublime and seminal poet of ecological awareness and activism [YouTube link], Zen appreciation of 'ordinary mind' and American speech, shamanistic intimacy with the natural world,...
John Battelle's Search Blog What’s This Fascination with Ad Networks? (Or, the Online Media Business Will Be About Brands First, Technology Second)
Back a year ago, I wrote a three part series on the future of the media business. It began as an attempt to think out loud about a topic with which I had become obsessed, and it ended up becoming a…
THE VICTORIA FALLS
THE VICTORIA FALLSmapDescribed by the Kololo tribe living in the area in the 1800...
Doctor, Doctor
In the early 2000s four people in the UK answered their phones to hear the unmistakable voice of Doctor Who, specifically the Fourth Doctor, asking for their help with an urgent problem. Only one...
Hail Mary, full of....
Hail Mary, full of.... um.... what was that, again? The only Pope many of us have known, John Paul II, has decided that a millenium is long enough to change a prayer. Odd that two millenia are...
Mary Whitehouse dies.
Mary Whitehouse dies. Whitehouse was a campaigner for what she considered taste and decency on TV. So that meant no swearing, no violence, absolutely no sex (no matter who was doing it) and...
Gender science
The Science of Gender Science. A debate by Pinker vs. Spelke on the research on mind, brain, and behavior that may be relevant to gender disparities in the sciences, including the studies of bias,...
Shake, mate.
Bulgarian chess grandmaster Ivan Cheparinov twice refuses to shake hands with English grandmaster Nigel Short before a match. This is forbidden under tournament rules, so Short protests, and...
Opiate of the masses
It is a highly addictive drug, but governments everywhere encourage its use... though they are not so keen on no-name brands. Richard Dawkins details the dangers of the most insidious opiate.
Arrrr
Iceland's Pirate Party looks likely to take the country's election next weekend - 'If you're worn out and depressed with the US election campaign, ponder what's going on in Iceland for a moment....