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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Don’t fix it if you don’t know why it was made that way to begin with
Via Chesterton.org, a useful principle about change and reform: “The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t...
Why write in your books
Via Brain Pickings, the importance of writing in your books: “[Marginalia is] simply too essential a canvas for digesting and disputing concepts, too key a voice box for our inner monologue about the world of words and ideas.”
Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles
Via Wired: Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers...
What Jesus Changed
Via Patheos: Jesus changed none of these things while he was on earth. But all of them have been changed, in various times and places, by Jesus' redeemed people in the centuries since. What a beginning it was, those twenty centuries ago, when Jesus came as a newborn...
What Jesus Changed
Via Patheos: Jesus changed none of these things while he was on earth. But all of them have been changed, in various times and places, by Jesus' redeemed people in the centuries since. What a beginning it was, those twenty centuries ago, when Jesus came as a newborn...
Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table
Via The Independent: A GM [genetically modified] salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America's powerful food-safety watchdog ruled it posed no...
Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table
Via The Independent: A GM [genetically modified] salmon which grows twice as fast as ordinary fish could become the first genetically-modified animal in the world to be declared officially safe to eat, after America's powerful food-safety watchdog ruled it posed no...
What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
Via Instapundit and Smithsonian Magazine: …Jaron Lanier and the ideology he helped create, Web 2.0 futurism, digital utopianism, which he now calls “digital Maoism,” indicting “internet intellectuals,” accusing giants like Facebook and Google of being “spy agencies.”...