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June 15 2011, 6:37am | Comments
Rubbish Junk Trash Detritus Waste Excess Midden Crap Matter Debris Stuff Scrap Shit Litter Garbage Bunkum Clutter Flotsam Ruin Jumble Kipple
April 13 2011, 1:44am | Comments
How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death? From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there…
January 9 2011, 3:38pm | Comments
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time: In research the story is similar. PhD students and contract staff known as “postdocs”, described by one student as “the ugly…
December 20 2010, 9:47am | Comments
Video games are worth loving, but loving them comes with shame. Not passing regret or social embarrassment, but a sharp-edged physical guilt: the hunch-backed, raw-fingered, burning-eyed pain that comes at the…
October 6 2010, 11:42am | Comments
August 28 2010, 12:21pm | Comments
This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change…
July 6 2009, 9:37am | Comments
I just published a novel about music. Early in the process of writing it, I was warned by a similarly music-obsessive friend that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.…
July 2 2009, 9:30am | Comments
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