Category: My So-Called Life
For those who might be interested, I thought I'd post my book tour dates, since the tour officially kicks off today. Hope to see you there! November 1, 7 PM, Gibson's Bookstore, Concord, NH November 7, 7 PM, Barnes &...
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An excellent philosophical time-waster.
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Why some writerly inaccuracies are necessary.
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Walt Whitman anticipated some of the basic facts of modern neuroscience.
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How Whole Foods kept me from buying local produce.
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There are important adverse effects to getting an "elite" high school education
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How to grow a perfect tomato.
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I'm probably breaking some obscure copyright law by simply mentioning this website. For those who don't know, allofmp3.com features ridiculously cheap mp3 files: a song usually costs a dime, not a dollar. The catch? They are a shady Russian company...
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While we are on the theme of consilience, here's a pretty perfect paragraph of prose that captures the kind of Third Culture I fantasize about. It's from Primo Levi's The Periodic Table: Carbon is again among us, in a glass...
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This photograph made me laugh. Via The Superficial...
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