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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
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.”
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
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.”...
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...
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...