May 2013
2 posts
April 2013
1 post
March 2013
5 posts
February 2013
9 posts
The Striped Bass
fakescience:
Reposted without comment.
“There was nothing they could do, however, for the 2,000 documents that had...”
– Timbuktu to Bamako - how the great library was saved
January 2013
12 posts
The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk →
Tragically not yet offering a course on the psychology of apocalypse, or I’d be there already.
J G Ballard →
JG Ballard is OUP’s life of the day
Maurice Sendak →
Extremely moving video by Christoph Niemann, remembering Maurice Sendak
December 2012
8 posts
November 2012
9 posts
“Hey speaking of that, making the same choices Shakespeare did will be easy as...”
– Ryan North and the latest Kickstarter pile-on Hamlet : Choose your own adventure with pirates, pictures, and oh, loads of other stuff
October 2012
5 posts
“… to sell a brain is worse than to sell a body, for when the body seller has...”
– Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, on the problems of women writing for newspapers and changing their beliefs to suit those of their employers (via cindersmcleod)
TO INFINITY & BEYOND: SLEEPING ASTRONAUT CAUSES... →
letsdolaunch:
BLDGBLOG | October 19, 2012
First of all, I know it’s inaccurate to say there was an “earthquake” on the moon, but I’ll use the phrase nonetheless. In any case, I was delighted to read that the tax-funded Apollo 11 astronauts, upon landing on the surface of the moon, installed a…
