Our World in Data
The Future is Vast: Longtermism’s perspective on humanity’s past, present, and future
~20 min read · · If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history · Shared by 149, including Maarten Lambrechts @maarten@vis.social, Ross Dawson, William MacAskill, Max Roser, luis antónio santos, Ser Jeff Garzik, Xavier Trabado Farré, David Wallace-Wells, Morgan Housel, Vala Afshar, Randy Olson, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Moritz Stefaner, Ziad Shihab, Chris Hadfield
Daily Nous / Justin Weinberg
The Philosophy Guild (guest post)
6 min read · · “Most contemporary philosophy writing is just bad writing… How did things go so wrong? It’s tempting to declare that philosophers are simply terrible writers, but I think that’s a mistake…” The… · Shared by 48, including Regina Rini, Anita Leirfall, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Emily Thomas, justin caouette, Ziad Shihab, Robin James
thethinkingshop.org
The Thinking Shop
1 min read · · Printed and downloadable creative and critical thinking resources. Provided under Creative Commons license by School of Thought, a 501c3 non profit organization. · Shared by 18, including Vikram Dutt, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Ziad Shihab
en.kremlin.ru
Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“
20+ min read · · During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term… · Shared by 25, including Anne Applebaum, Ziad Shihab
elephant.art
The Mona Lisa Cake Thrower Was 100% in the Right
5 min read · · Was hurling confectionary at da Vinci’s masterpiece the ethical thing to do? Yes, argues journalist Diyora Shadijanova. And here’s why… · Shared by 11, including Ziad Shihab, Elephant Magazine
cptsdawayout.com
Part two: Low Cortisol levels linked to PTSD
2 min read · · ttsz / Getty Images . This is groundbreaking. Low cortisol levels have never been linked to PTSD before. This explains why we behave as we do. . . “A shape was emerging that connected childhood adv… · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
Literary Hub
How did alphabet books tackle the letter ‘x’ before x-rays and xylophones?
1 min read · · The most common entries for ‘x’ in alphabet books nowadays are probably ‘x-ray’ and ‘xylophone’—based on anecdotal evidence only, someone do this research please… · Shared by 7, including Ziad Shihab
Tablet Magazine
The Great Debasement
~16 min read · · The institutions tasked with the preservation of art are reducing great works to moralizing message-delivery systems · Shared by 87, including Ziad Shihab
literarymatters.org
Impotence and Overripe Grapes: Cultural Decadence in T. S. Eliot’s Early Poetry
20+ min read · · A wartime exile in his own country, Czesław Miłosz translated The Waste Land against “the glow from the burning ghetto.” This, for the Polish poet, made for “weird reading”: T. S. Eliot’s eulogy for… · Shared by 7, including Ziad Shihab
rogersbacon.substack.com
Nomen est omen
~15 min read · · On nominative determinism and the power of names · Shared by 604, including Ziad Shihab, Colin Wright
ddc.typepad.com
Art in the Stacks: Dewey-inspired artwork
1 min read · · Back in February 2020, I visited a library in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis to see their Dewey-inspired art, and I'm finally taking a moment to share what I saw! The Anoka County Library has… · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
ndpr.nd.edu
Naming and Indexicality
~11 min read · · In 2022, five decades will have passed since the first publication of Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity and the beginning of the referentialist r... · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
tni.org
Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
~11 min read · · A beginner's guide to Coca05 August 2014PrimerSubscribe here to receive monthly news and updates about coca, cannabis, and many more. Contents: Related primers Human Rights and Drug Policy Fact Sheet:… · Shared by 8, including Ziad Shihab
beyondbelieve.de
Operation Plumbbob: How a manhole cover became the fastest object launched by Humans
· During Operation Plumbbob in 1957, a test called Pascal B launched a 900 kg manhole cover to space at 6 times the escape velocity of earth. · Shared by 6, including Ziad Shihab
Big Think
Nanofabricators: a "Star Trek" vision of the future
5 min read · · Nanofabricators could create the Star Trek version of the future. Though they are physically plausible, can they actually be created? · Shared by 10, including Ziad Shihab, John Hagel
