December 2010
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Is there anything good about men? →
Fascinating read:
Research has compiled mountains of data on the stereotypes people have about men and women, which the researchers summarized as “The WAW effect.” WAW stands for “Women Are Wonderful.” Both men and women hold much more favorable views of women than of men. Almost everybody likes women better than men. I certainly do.
My purpose in this talk is not to try to balance...
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Breathless
Recently Enjoyed: Breathless. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1961
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Wind and Tree
Wind and Tree
In the way that most of the wind Happens where there are trees,
Most of the world is centred About ourselves.
Often where the wind has gathered The trees together,
One tree will take Another in her arms and hold.
Their branches that are grinding Madly together,
It is no real fire. They are breaking each other.
Often I think I should be like The single tree, going...
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Sufjan Stevens - Delighted People EP →
Buy for $5 or stream the entire thing for free.
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Undecideable arithmetic →
The most severe implications are philosophical. The result means that the rules we use to manipulate numbers cannot be assumed to represent the pure and perfect truth. Rather, they are something more akin to a scientific theory such as the “standard model” that particle physicists use to predict the workings of particles and forces: our best approximation to reality, well...
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