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Link The Things, by Peter Watts
I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being…

June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments
Link How the Illusion of Being Observed Can Make…
A group of scientists at Newcastle University, headed by Melissa Bateson and Daniel Nettle of the Center for Behavior and Evolution, conducted a field experiment demonstrating that merely hanging up…

May 11 2011, 3:14am | Comments
Link The Philosophy of Insomnia
Philosophy is no friend of sleep. In his Laws (circa 350 BC), Plato platonized, "When a man is asleep, he is no better than if he were dead; and he…

April 21 2011, 2:44am | Comments
Link To Have Is to Owe
We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a…

April 5 2011, 1:36am | Comments
Link The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan…
Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger.…

May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments

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