May 2013
5 posts
What is today's vegetable?: On balancing →
jessevondoom:
My friend Kim wrote an amazing essay today about the ridiculous practice of asking women how they balance professional life and motherhood. It was great to read. I emailed her an all-to-long thank you. She told me to publish it. I cleaned it up a little and here it is.
I was writing you an…
April 2013
11 posts
The Old House and the Sea →
Clingstone, a faded, shingled, 103-year-old mansion set on a rock in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, is one family’s labor of love.
March 2013
32 posts
“I wondered if I would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to...”
– Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
“Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
What Really Smart People Worry About At Night →
The proliferation of Chinese eugenics. – Geoffrey Miller, evolutionary psychologist.
Black swan events, and the fact that we continue to rely on models that have been proven fraudulent. – Nassem Nicholas Taleb
That we will be unable to defeat viruses by learning to push them beyond the error catastrophe threshold. – William McEwan, molecular biology researcher
That pseudoscience will gain...
“People are always desiring things and it ruins them. Take what you have and love...”
– Bill Callahan in a Bomblog interview with Peter Moysaenko. (via dearwassily)
Picasso ‘Draws’ With Light →
February 2013
135 posts
