The Postmortal, by Drew Magary, is the first-hand account of what happens when a cure for aging is discovered. The story is told to us by 29-year-old John Farrell, an estate lawyer who, in the year 2019, visits a doctor who performs the cure on him fo…
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Twenty-First Century Stoic — From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
I never intended to become a Stoic. Who, after all, were the Stoics? They were those grim, wooden figures of ancient Greece and Rome whose goal it was to stand mutely and take whatever the world could throw at them. Right?
About a decade ago, thoug…
It doesn’t make you stronger, The Monologuist
Monday, 11 October 2010
It doesn’t make you stronger, The Monologuist
Portable lighthouse keeper libraries of yesteryear
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Here’s a beautiful display of the portable libraries that were once supplied to Michigan’s lighthouse keepers; click through for a partial bibliography of titles, including “MY APINGI KINGDOM: WITH LIFE IN THE GREAT SAHARA, AND SKETCHES OF THE CHASE O…
Hacking Work
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Josh Klein — the fellow who trained crows to collect quarters and wrote an article for MAKE on how to toilet train your cat — and Bill Jensen wrote a new book called Hacking Work — an “instruction manual for getting your work done faster, more effic…
Homeroom Security: book about the insanity of zero-tolerance classroom policies
Friday, 3 September 2010
Salon’s got a blood-boiling interview with Aaron Kupchik, author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear, a close look at four very different US schools. Each school has a different demographic and different location, but the thing t…