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Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory - by Brian Klaas Read at Aeon

As we all know, someday we will die. And when we do, there will be an obituary summing up your into life into a couple paragraphs. Author Eden Robins has used (fictional) obituaries to weave together her second novel, Remember You Will Die. Come along in her Big Idea as she tells you about how death...

From demon-riffing drone-lords Bong to gruelling, piledriver punks Drunk In Hell, power trident-pronged psych outfit Blown Out, experimental soundtracking with Artifacts & Uranium, the atomic noise rock of Melting Hand and the crushing cosmic doom of 11Paranoias, plus a plethora of collaborations wi...

You can just create the thing, own the thing, and share the thing on the Internet. The post Make The Thing | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo.

I allow myself to look at the sky, east of course where the sun comes from. I say this because this is where I am now and this is where I come from, the East coast, of course, as in New York, which is where I have always been.I do not see myself back where […]

Even the words that we are speaking now thieving time has stolen away, and nothing can return, —from the Odes or Horace The Greatest Mystery I stop and do nothing. Nothing happens. I am thinking about nothing. I listen to the passing of time. This is time, familiar and intimate. We are taken by it.…

My friend Ali recently wrote a beautiful — and heartbreaking — post titled Middle Easterners are numb. We exchanged emails, as we do sometimes, discussing our mutual experience. A few days have passed, and now that Israel have started bombing Iran, my argumentation looks more hypocritical than befor...

“Love Letter to America.” A.M. Hickman takes a hard look at America’s many dysfunctions: “Then the realization sinks in like news of a dear old friend’s death: There beneath the giant plastic rodent breasts of Betty Beaver’s, you stand not only in the richest country in the world, but in the third-r...

The origins of consciousness according to Peter Godfrey-Smith. The post Motion Made Minds appeared first on Nautilus.

What would you do if you found out January 6th supporters were your new neighbors?

Did you know masculinity is under threat? Worse than that though, it may be in irriversable and terminal decline, from which mankind will never recover!? Scary! We hear this every couple of decades or so, along with the requisite pearl clutching and moral panic over what it represents, what society ...

“Cemeteries are full of life,” says biologist Anne Pringle as she walks through the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin. It’s a bright, early October day and sunlight filters through the still-green leaves, catching strands of spider silk spun over tombstone crosses. Speckled mushrooms stand ...