This is fascinating and important: Becoming Anne Frank
How a Woman Becomes a Lake
Now I'm curious to read this: The Children’s Classic That Secretly Brought Existentialist Philosophy Into American Homes
Awesome: A New Illustrated Database for Women Artists Spans the 15th to 19th Centuries
The future of the kilo: a weighty matter
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Monday, November 5, 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Afternoon Tea (4/19/18)
Monday, February 19, 2018
Afternoon Tea (2/19/18)
Monday, January 1, 2018
Morning Coffee (1/1/18)
Happy New Year!
Me elsewhere: This week's TV news.
Alexey Navalny and the Empty Spectacle of the Russian Election
This is great: MacArthur Grant Will Create ‘Sesame Street’ for Syrian Refugees
In News That Is Definitely Not Foreshadowing Anything, Melania Trump Says Her Favorite Show Is How to Get Away With Murder
lolol: John McAfee says his Twitter account was hacked
‘Anyone can change any habit’: the science of keeping your 2018 resolutions
Advice on New Year’s Resolutions from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
This was going on for so long that I honestly forgot it was still happening: Liverpool’s Price for Van Dijk? A Wait, an Apology and $100 Million
Who's Stealing All These Goddamn Bees?
Westminster Abbey's attics yield a treasure trove of stained glass
I didn't even like the new Orient Express much but I do agree that what the world needs in 2018 is an Agatha Christie cinematic universe.
Me elsewhere: This week's TV news.
Alexey Navalny and the Empty Spectacle of the Russian Election
This is great: MacArthur Grant Will Create ‘Sesame Street’ for Syrian Refugees
In News That Is Definitely Not Foreshadowing Anything, Melania Trump Says Her Favorite Show Is How to Get Away With Murder
lolol: John McAfee says his Twitter account was hacked
‘Anyone can change any habit’: the science of keeping your 2018 resolutions
Advice on New Year’s Resolutions from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
This was going on for so long that I honestly forgot it was still happening: Liverpool’s Price for Van Dijk? A Wait, an Apology and $100 Million
Who's Stealing All These Goddamn Bees?
Westminster Abbey's attics yield a treasure trove of stained glass
I didn't even like the new Orient Express much but I do agree that what the world needs in 2018 is an Agatha Christie cinematic universe.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Morning Coffee (6/23/16)
This House sit-in is wild; I woke up and turned on CSPAN and it's STILL GOING. Wow. Here's a primer on what's going on and why it's so unusual.
And here's the Guardian live blog.
Also, the Brexit vote is happening right now. Please hydrate, political junkies. Here's the Guardian live blog for THAT.
I do think things like this sit-in and Murphy's filibuster are useful for forcing the conversation, but this is an important point: For any actual change, we need to have fewer Republicans in Congress.
And Matt Yglesias makes good points here: Why House Democrats are eager to force votes on doomed gun control bills
Whatever you think of these specific issues, the fact that it's been covered via streaming video from the Congresspeople's own phones is worth noting. (Because the majority controls the TV cameras and turned them off.)
Donald Trump’s Clinton attack speech reveals just how little he understands the world
“Mad, conceited, learned beyond their sex”: Female Philosophers of the Early Modern Era
Ooh: More Treasures Recovered from Antikythera Wreck
I've been trying some things out of my comfort zone so I loved this from Hanna Rosin: Screw Mastery
And here's the Guardian live blog.
Also, the Brexit vote is happening right now. Please hydrate, political junkies. Here's the Guardian live blog for THAT.
I do think things like this sit-in and Murphy's filibuster are useful for forcing the conversation, but this is an important point: For any actual change, we need to have fewer Republicans in Congress.
And Matt Yglesias makes good points here: Why House Democrats are eager to force votes on doomed gun control bills
Whatever you think of these specific issues, the fact that it's been covered via streaming video from the Congresspeople's own phones is worth noting. (Because the majority controls the TV cameras and turned them off.)
Donald Trump’s Clinton attack speech reveals just how little he understands the world
“Mad, conceited, learned beyond their sex”: Female Philosophers of the Early Modern Era
Ooh: More Treasures Recovered from Antikythera Wreck
I've been trying some things out of my comfort zone so I loved this from Hanna Rosin: Screw Mastery
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Morning Coffee (3/9/16)
Sad news: George Martin has died.
This seems obvious but is important to keep in mind! "Ted Cruz is more interested in winning the Republican nomination than stopping Donald Trump from winning it."
Russia's Communist Party is making a comeback — and it's bad news for Putin
Ugh, John McAfee.
I don't think this should actually SURPRISE anyone but: Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas
Perhaps you, like me, are the kind of person to be soothed by a Platonic analysis of Trump, in which case: Here you go.
Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints (with an important update here)
This look at the history of horoscopes in media was very interesting, even for someone with less than zero interest in horoscopes, but also contained the most preposterous sentence I've read in a while: "Astrology is more real than football." What. No. That's not how anything works.
It's sad how often we have to think about this stuff: "Do I cut ties with anyone a friend tells me has been abusive or manipulative, or does their abuse need to reach some arbitrary level of horror? Do I need proof? How many people do I have left after that? When you cut them out, how many publications are left to write for? How many parties are left to go to? How many friends do you start to question because they’re friends with the person you cut ties with? Do they even lose anything without me, or am I the one at a disadvantage?"
Scientists Discover a Boiling River of Amazonian Legend
This seems obvious but is important to keep in mind! "Ted Cruz is more interested in winning the Republican nomination than stopping Donald Trump from winning it."
Russia's Communist Party is making a comeback — and it's bad news for Putin
Ugh, John McAfee.
I don't think this should actually SURPRISE anyone but: Trump Tower Funded by Rich Chinese Who Invest Cash for Visas
Perhaps you, like me, are the kind of person to be soothed by a Platonic analysis of Trump, in which case: Here you go.
Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints (with an important update here)
This look at the history of horoscopes in media was very interesting, even for someone with less than zero interest in horoscopes, but also contained the most preposterous sentence I've read in a while: "Astrology is more real than football." What. No. That's not how anything works.
It's sad how often we have to think about this stuff: "Do I cut ties with anyone a friend tells me has been abusive or manipulative, or does their abuse need to reach some arbitrary level of horror? Do I need proof? How many people do I have left after that? When you cut them out, how many publications are left to write for? How many parties are left to go to? How many friends do you start to question because they’re friends with the person you cut ties with? Do they even lose anything without me, or am I the one at a disadvantage?"
Scientists Discover a Boiling River of Amazonian Legend
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Morning Coffee (11/10/15)
Me elsewhere: The Last Kingdom recap!
Amazing news: Mallory Ortberg is the new Dear Prudence.
Ben Carson, the humblebragging instrument of God The idea of this man having any kind of power is really very scary.
This is really important: Men Explain Hillary to Me "As long as feminism has existed, left-wing men have dismissed it as a bourgeois triviality. Now we know how little things have changed. For that, at least, we can thank these men for educating us."
An "artist" set the Russian security service's door on fire. "His plans apparently went undetected by the F.S.B., which like its predecessor, the K.G.B., is responsible for surveillance of the Russian population to prevent crimes and attacks." Karla would be horrified.
Unfixable: How Obama lost Syria
Was Neruda assassinated?
In Tunisia, a Mission of Justice and a Moment of Reckoning
Interesting: I thought the Amazon store was a terrible idea. Then I actually went there.
The fraught history of Princess Leia’s infamous bikini
"MAN: can you say da-da
can you say da-da for me?
BABY FOUCAULT: discourse is not life"
Amazing news: Mallory Ortberg is the new Dear Prudence.
Ben Carson, the humblebragging instrument of God The idea of this man having any kind of power is really very scary.
This is really important: Men Explain Hillary to Me "As long as feminism has existed, left-wing men have dismissed it as a bourgeois triviality. Now we know how little things have changed. For that, at least, we can thank these men for educating us."
An "artist" set the Russian security service's door on fire. "His plans apparently went undetected by the F.S.B., which like its predecessor, the K.G.B., is responsible for surveillance of the Russian population to prevent crimes and attacks." Karla would be horrified.
Unfixable: How Obama lost Syria
Was Neruda assassinated?
In Tunisia, a Mission of Justice and a Moment of Reckoning
Interesting: I thought the Amazon store was a terrible idea. Then I actually went there.
The fraught history of Princess Leia’s infamous bikini
"MAN: can you say da-da
can you say da-da for me?
BABY FOUCAULT: discourse is not life"
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Morning Coffee (11/4/15)
The filing period for the New Hampshire presidential primary starts today. If you have nothing else to do, you can watch the candidates file live on WMUR.com.
Syria's tangled proxy wars: a simple visual guide
The Guardian liveblogged Trump's book to save us all from reading it. (The Guardian has THE BEST liveblogs.)
Why Turkey's election results shocked all the experts
Oh, Thomas Blatt has died. He was one of the few survivors of the Sobibor breakout and is in the PBS documentary Escape from a Nazi Death Camp, which I saw recently and highly recommend. (It's on Netflix.)
I feel like the surprising thing here is not that campaigns use the media to coordinate with super PACs, but that reserving ad space in early primary space was "totally not even on [the] radar" of a Cruz super PAC until the media pointed out that they hadn't.
Neuropolitics are fascinating! Maybe terrible, but fascinating.
This Times series about arbitration is quite interesting.
Fantasy readers, check out collaborative serial Tremontaine. I haven't read it yet, but that's a great author line-up.
"WOMAN: can you pat the bunny?
BABY DERRIDA: there is nothing outside the text"
Syria's tangled proxy wars: a simple visual guide
The Guardian liveblogged Trump's book to save us all from reading it. (The Guardian has THE BEST liveblogs.)
Why Turkey's election results shocked all the experts
Oh, Thomas Blatt has died. He was one of the few survivors of the Sobibor breakout and is in the PBS documentary Escape from a Nazi Death Camp, which I saw recently and highly recommend. (It's on Netflix.)
I feel like the surprising thing here is not that campaigns use the media to coordinate with super PACs, but that reserving ad space in early primary space was "totally not even on [the] radar" of a Cruz super PAC until the media pointed out that they hadn't.
Neuropolitics are fascinating! Maybe terrible, but fascinating.
This Times series about arbitration is quite interesting.
Fantasy readers, check out collaborative serial Tremontaine. I haven't read it yet, but that's a great author line-up.
"WOMAN: can you pat the bunny?
BABY DERRIDA: there is nothing outside the text"
Monday, December 8, 2014
Morning Coffee (12/8/14)
Wow: Missing Masterpiece Discovered in the Background of ‘Stuart Little’
Ooh, these snowflake photos are awesome.
What Disney Movies Taught Us About Girl Power
RUDOLPH IN LATIN
The Tricky Ethics of Intergalactic Colonization
24 Things All Young Adult Fans Are Tired Of Hearing
Ruin Your Own Happiness, Part I: How To Be Disappointed By Good News
Hee: Hear Kristen Bell and Straight No Chaser's 'Text Me Merry Christmas'
Ooh, these snowflake photos are awesome.
What Disney Movies Taught Us About Girl Power
RUDOLPH IN LATIN
The Tricky Ethics of Intergalactic Colonization
24 Things All Young Adult Fans Are Tired Of Hearing
Ruin Your Own Happiness, Part I: How To Be Disappointed By Good News
Hee: Hear Kristen Bell and Straight No Chaser's 'Text Me Merry Christmas'
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Morning Coffee (6/21/11)
Happy first day of summer!
Look at the fun Google doodle for today.
Listen to Rave On Buddy Holly, a new album of Buddy Holly covers streaming at NPR First Listen. The Black Keys! Fiona Apple! Modest Mouse! Florence + the Machine!
Mark your calendar - The Vampire Diaries comes back on September 15.
Read Dahlia Lithwick on the Supreme Court Wal-Mart decision.
Watch John Green's video about religion and meaning:
Look at the fun Google doodle for today.
Listen to Rave On Buddy Holly, a new album of Buddy Holly covers streaming at NPR First Listen. The Black Keys! Fiona Apple! Modest Mouse! Florence + the Machine!
Mark your calendar - The Vampire Diaries comes back on September 15.
Read Dahlia Lithwick on the Supreme Court Wal-Mart decision.
Watch John Green's video about religion and meaning:
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