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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Virginia Woolf on reading
Via Brain Pickings, a recap of Virginia Woolf’s advice on how to read a book: “Woolf — an eloquent champion of the joy of reading — considers reading not a means to some intellectual end, but an intellectual and creative reward in itself.”Amazon.com Widgets
Will robots do to jobs what Deep Blue did to Garry Kasparov and Watson to Ken Jennings?
Two items: A driverless truck from Mercedes. Robot construction workers for Google’s headquarters. What are the ramifications for jobs in these sectors? What must people do to adjust?
Kids Want Gadgets Not Toys
Via Business Insider: This Christmas will be characterized by society's evolution toward high-tech gadgets; an evolution that has not bypassed children. For dozens of years, toy manufacturers have not only had to adapt to this technological revolution, but they have...
The Polemics of Disbelief: An Atheist, an Agnostic and a Catholic Priest
Via Patheos: Born of Jewish parents, then raised Protestant, Stossel is not steeled against religion—he just hasn’t experienced the spark of faith in his own life. By his own admission, he’s gone to churches and temples; but he just hasn’t been convinced that...
The Polemics of Disbelief: An Atheist, an Agnostic and a Catholic Priest
Via Patheos: Born of Jewish parents, then raised Protestant, Stossel is not steeled against religion—he just hasn’t experienced the spark of faith in his own life. By his own admission, he’s gone to churches and temples; but he just hasn’t been convinced that...
A New Birth of Reason
Via Arts & Letters Daily and American Scholar: Ingersoll emerged as the leading figure in what historians of American secularism consider the golden age of freethought—an era when immigration, industrialization, and science, especially Charles Darwin’s theory of...
A New Birth of Reason
Via Arts & Letters Daily and American Scholar: Ingersoll emerged as the leading figure in what historians of American secularism consider the golden age of freethought—an era when immigration, industrialization, and science, especially Charles Darwin’s theory of...
Made on the Moon: 3D Printing, Lunar-Style
Via Popular Mechanics: …researchers led by Washington State University mechanical engineering professor Amit Bandyopadhyay have shown that future moon explorers might be able to fabricate new parts simply by pouring that regolith into the hopper of a 3D printer. The...