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Full archiveCollapse - Jared Diamond
I would rate Collapse over Germs, Guns and Steel - perhaps this is because I am more interested in how functional systems can fail rather than how ...
Runners vs Walkers
This was originally posted on Facebook on 10th February 2013 The organizers of the Green Power 50km hike were kind enough to publish a full rank l...
Line Monarch refuses to believe in Flatland
Suhas Mathur introduced me to Flatland. Makes a strong case for why all atheists should choose to be agnostic atheists instead. You ask me to bel...
A viable alternative to "Hope for the Flowers" ?
From Orbiting the Giant Hairball : A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace If we were to think of waterskiing as a metaphor for leading a...
Alain de Botton in "Status Anxiety"
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement: being polite, succeeding at school and later, acquiring rank and prestige. Such ef...
53 post articles, 7 pages.