“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes.” - Marcel Proust

Yeah, except you made the absolute assertion...

Yes, the largest issues lie in the farm/living conditions themselves (including how they are treated), which is right up there with diet. Most of the illnesses, especially those in the earliest 20th-century, were because of “dirty dairies” - in which cows were packed closely together in much higher numbers, off of…

Are Organic Milk and Meat More Nutritious?

You managed to sum up in a single sentence what I struggled to say in a near novella:

Frankly, this is nearly as disturbing as a Trump presidency itself. Mainly the involvement of the “tech titans.”

I like lending books to friends and such and I look forward to passing some of them down to my children, nieces, and nephews when they grow older. But I don’t think people understand or appreciate just how fucking incredible libraries are - from books, to ebooks, to audiobooks, to CDs, to DVDs, to magazines, and…

Also, a free-throw counts as one point. But since...

“....people aren’t easily labeled as pigs, wolves, geese, or tigers.”

We are all randomness generating machines. Where’s the beef?

Yep! And I had remembered you mentioning it before so I figured at least someone else would get it.

When Edward Bernays, “father of public relations,” was on the David Letterman Show late in his life, Letterman introduced him as “Doctor Edward Bernays.” As he sat down, Letterman asked, “Doctor of what? What are we dealing with here?” To which Bernays replied, “what we’re dealing with is people will believe me more…

All I could think of when I was reading about this study was, “signed: THE MGT."

Rationalization justifies everything.

Here’s another one: find joy in the process. Put another way, turn it into an autotelic activity, and let the writing itself be its own reward.

That’s a great point! I think there is certainly something to the idea of machine/computer/network-aided thinking and activity. That is, something along the lines of of “Augmented Intelligence” - meaning, by connecting us more widely and readily with each other (and broadening the tasks we’re able to perform),…

“I was surprised to learn about the dynamics of invention, and in particular, the work done by the psychologist Tony McCaffrey. McCaffrey showed that when we’re thinking about solving a problem, we embed false certainties in the unconscious assumptions we make about how the parts of any object are supposed to…

There was a young man who said ‘Damn,
For it certainly seems that I am
A creature that moves
In determinate grooves.
I’m not even a bus, I’m a tram.’