There’s a reason why kings built large palaces, sat on thrones and wore rubies all over. There’s a whole social need for that, not to oppress the masses, but to impress the masses and make them proud...
This is ridiculous, Teresa told Pedro. She’s sounding like a bad Lovecraft novel now.
Though his book vigorously promotes strong privacy, Miller notes that people routinely trade personal information for convenience or a few dollars of savings, even offering names of friends and famili...
Today you meet more folks than your ancestors could imagine … some in passing. Some for a crucial instant. Others for tangled decades. Biology can’t keep up. Our overworked temporal lobes cannot know...
True brilliance has a well-known positive correlation with decency, much of the time--a fact the rest of us rely on, more than we ever know. The real world doesn't roil with as many crazed artists, ps...
Way back, about a century ago, physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues, taking a lunch break from the Manhattan Project, found themselves discussing life in the cosmos. Some younger scientists claim...
We are, at our core, information pack rats and inveterate correlators.
We aren’t a curse upon the world. We are her new eyes. Her brain, testes, ovaries . . . her ambition and her heart. Her voice. So sing. (556)
We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.
What are the most common traits of nearly all forms of mental illness? The answer? Nearly all sufferers lack— flexibility— to be able to change your opinion or course of action, if shown clear evidenc...
Where is it written that one should only care about big things? I fought for big things, long ago… for issues, principles, a country. Where are all of them now?... I found out something, you know. I d...
Where is it written that one should only care about big things?
Where it is strongest, it must still contend ceaselessly with macho, paranoiac, homogenizing, and other traditional forces that continue battling over the minds and actions of women and men – forces t...
Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.
Why is the future always … in the future?
Would we be tormenting ourselves over the Kennedy assassination today if fifty cameras had been rolling, instead of just poor Abraham Zapruder’s?
Yes, but all that’s needed is to break reciprocity, he answered. By controlling information, making sure it flows one way. Take over the databases. Trump up panic situations, so the public will suppor...
Yet egotism can also be useful to ambitious creatures, driving their single-minded pursuit of success. Madness seems essential in order to be great.
A species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy.
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