Don’t know, but at least with this one, makes me want to read it…immediately. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=314807&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=01AAEAThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson from Book Videos on Vimeo.
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Robert Heinlein on Logic
Crushed under work today, but here’s a quote that deserves remembering, from an obscure but often charming book by Robert Heinlein called Glory Road: Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow. Could this be part of the reason that self-styled conservatives have so much trouble with theContinue reading “Robert Heinlein on Logic”
Ecophobia: A Paradigm
Briefly, "ecophobia" is an irrational (often hysterical) and groundless hatred of the natural world, or aspects of it. Such fear of the agency of Nature plays out in many spheres. The personal hygiene industry relies on it, since capital-driven notions about personal cleanliness assign us preference for perfumes (for some more than others) over naturalContinue reading “Ecophobia: A Paradigm”
Kit Stolz 