Comforts and Joys
by Rebecca Baumgartner While watching a Christmas movie recently and hearing a character describe something as a “Christmas miracle,” my 8-year-old son scornfully exclaimed, “That’s not a Christmas miracle, that’s…
Chatting with yourself
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/12/chatting-with-yourself.html I decided to train an AI chatbot on my childhood journal entries to engage in real-time dialogue with my inner child and I discovered how an AI tool can…
Gareth Evans on Revitalizing the Struggle for Human Rights
Gareth Evans in Project Syndicate: This century has not been kind to human-rights optimists, with 2022 being no exception. Many gains in the recognition and protection of the universal rights…
Nietzsche and the perils of denying your self
Guy Elgat at IAI News: Should one be altruistic and act for the sake of others, even at a cost to oneself? Should one’s actions be free of any egoistic…
From Russia with Love: Science and Ideology Then and Now
Anna I. Krylov in Heterodox STEM: My everyday experiences as a chemistry professor at an American university in 2021 bring back memories from my school and university time in the…
Cells: Memories for My Mother
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/12/cells-memories-for-my-mother.html Anthony Cummins in The Guardian: The Irish writer Gavin McCrea was supposed to be writing the third in a loose trilogy of novels about the development of communism, following…
The art of light
If it’s Friday afternoon, you like photography and you have nothing to do, where do you go? I’m going to photograph something, right? That? Well, for example, photographing the traffic…
Your platform is not an ecosystem
Another day, another exhortation to join an “ecosystem” that’s anything but. I could pick a hundred examples, but one that recently caught my eye was an ad placed in the…
How to Calm Someone Down
We’ve all likely encountered someone who’s acting angry or hysterical. A customer flips his lid at you because he didn’t get his order exactly how he wanted it. A co-worker…
Jonathan Haidt: Why It Has Gotten Harder to Find the Truth
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/12/jonathan-haidt-why-it-has-gotten-harder-to-find-the-truth.html