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
Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet
How on earth did it happen, I used to wonderthat a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,not to mention vehicles and animals—had allone fine day gone under? I mean, I said to…
Arnaud Develay on “Donbass: The War on Remembrance”
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/arnaud-develay-on-donbass-the-war-on-remembrance/ Watch today’s interview with Arnaud Develay above; below is his new article. Scroll down for my latest Press TV discussion on Israel’s accelerating murders of Palestinians. DONBASS: THE WAR…
DAY’S END
pjshuleskiSEASIDE BEACH OREGONThe sunsets were exceptionally colorful this evening and the following day as smoke from forest fires in central Oregon moved north along the coastline.
If You Want to Be Smart, You Must Do This
https://ryanholiday.net/if-you-want-to-be-smart-you-must-do-this/ There are lots of smart people. There are not a lot of people who can do this smart thing. The poet John Keats called it “negative capability”—the mental fortitude…