Intellectual Loses Forest, Probably For Trees
Ludwig Wittgenstein, freed from OT exile, obsesses over ceilings and door handles.
Author: Chris
To Make Them More Lost
With so much stacked against them, this is not what people with depression needed.
Vaccine Lessons from Mom
Virginia Hughes, who was with Seed back when I was with ScienceBlogs and ScienceBlogs was with Seed, writes about the conversation she had with her mother about why she was not vaccinated as a child. Here’s what she got out of it.
Open to the Conversation
With recent conversations about who is and who isn’t a feminist, and why, on my mind, this passage from an interview with Netta Elzie caught my eye.
Reconstructing Trauma
Perhaps the most important thing to understand about memory is that it is fiction.
Oh, Tennessee
I often get the sense that Tennessee, Texas, and Florida are locked in a never-ending war to decide which of the three is the craziest state in the union. Granted, Florida wins most of the battles, but Tennessee and Texas get in a lot of really good shots. I think Tennessee may have just landed a doozy, though.
The Police Through Their Own Eyes
Ferguson has placed in stark relief the fact that the police view themselves as an independent authority unbeholden and unanswerable to either the people or their elected representatives.
No Violence, Just Justice
Guilt leaves me sick. Anger leaves me nearly speechless. I cannot do Ferguson justice. Let’s hope that we, as a country, can.
Illusion
You probably remember the OK Go video that fearless leader Tod posted a while back, the one for their song “This Too Shall Pass,” which featured an outrageous Rube Goldberg machine: Now they have...
