From the monthly archives:
June 2009
Culture
Where the critics of copyright perceive the Internet age as a potential Renaissance being blocked by overconsolidated corporations, Helprin worries, plausibly, that the spirit of
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Culture
He thinks there are far too many humans, that we are a plague on the planet and a rapacious horde, and that our desires for
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Culture
Item collection has been a staple of video games since Pac-Man swallowed his first cherry. Since then, we’ve collected stars, coins, rings, nuts, bolts, packages,
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Culture
The market can’t be trusted to keep supplying you with what you like, because the goal of the market is not to have sold things
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Culture
For centuries, the selection of the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama has been steeped in the mysticism of a bygone world.
On the windswept Tibetan
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Science
[D]ifferential equations ….represent the most powerful tool humanity has ever created for making sense of the material world.
via Guest Column: Loves Me, Loves Me …
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Culture
Crawford argues that the ideologists of the knowledge economy have posited a false dichotomy between knowing and doing. The fact of the matter is that
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Media
[A]s recently as four or five years ago, to be a member of Manhattan media, you weren’t rich, but you lived as a rich person
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