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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Into the Heart of Life: Richard Powers on Living with Bewilderment at the Otherworldly Wonder of Our World – The Marginalian

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Maria Popova again has me thinking this (like its predecessor "Overstory") would be a good text for Environmental Ethics. Bioethic...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Unethical?

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Would You Clone Your Dog? by Alexandra Horowitz https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/would-you-clone-your-dog
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Atul Gawande on finding meaning in mortality

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On Mortality and Meaning by The On Being Project The eighth episode in our Wisdom Season Read on Substack
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Not enough rocks?

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Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It? …The system has already been shown to produce  bad answers  seemi...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

On Call

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Dr. Fauci's book describes trying to build a government response to Covid "with a president who literally did not understand what w...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Pandemic lit

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The growing body of literature about the pandemic "radiates a desire to be useful, somehow, and a sense that perhaps fiction can give p...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

How Do We Know What Animals Are Really Feeling?

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Animal-welfare science tries to get inside the minds of a huge range of species — in order to help improve their lives. "...a true ethi...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Steve Gleason’s good life

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What's the last great book you read? When I was diagnosed [with ALS], one of the first questions I asked in a journal entry was, ...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Healthy minds, flourishing lives

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      POSTSCRIPT. It was pleasing to receive a group email from Dr. Evins of the Honors College, at semester's end, thanking all the fac...
Monday, April 22, 2024

Peter Attia’s Quest to Live Long and Prosper

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The point isn't longevity, it's to feel good today and plan to feel good again tomorrow. And to know you'll be ready, whenever t...
Monday, April 8, 2024

Keep your health

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https://www.threads.net/@_stoicteacher/post/C5er_xorptn/?xmt=AQGzjCrNjlYq7WlLHO06gD7-8q3Xauo3l97QmcHxz5elew
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Haidt: end phone-centric childhood

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

“deliberately exposed to radiation”

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'Oppenheimer,' My Uncle and the Secrets America Still Doesn't Like to Tell …"Oppenheimer" is a movie about a singular ...

Pandemic lessons not learned

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It has been four years since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. In 2022 Ed Yong wrote that the U.S. "made none of the broad chang...
Monday, March 11, 2024

‘Fantastic Voyage’-ish A.I.

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A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. W...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Portals

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But don't underrate the value of being healthy. Things did not end well for Virginia. "Virginia Woolf on being ill as a portal t...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older – The Marginalian

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Today, and for the next few weeks, my wife is chronologically older than me. She might need to hear what Maria  Popova and Simone de Beauvoi...
Monday, January 8, 2024

Stephen Hawking happy

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When asked about living with [ALS, Lou Gehrig's ] disease, he told an interviewer that he was "happier now" than before he bec...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Thank goodness

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I'm reading Daniel Dennett's memoir "I've Been Thinking", which begins with the near-death experience that generated m...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

“My Year of Being Very Online About Dogs”

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My friend Daryl's friend and former colleague at W.Carolina, on dogs and the culture wars. What a strange world, dogs' AND ours… Dog...