A journalist from the Wall Street Journal wrote to me a week ago to ask what the numbers that I use in the opening pages of my book Limitarianism would look like today. In particular, she asked whether I could calculate for her the “lifetime equivalent hourly income” of Elon Musk’s current assets today. Short […]
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No Body’s Perfect his tennis elbowwas his Achilles heel and his Achilles heelwas on his athlete’s foot and his athlete’s footmade him down in the mouth and though the down in his mouthhe took on the chin, it became less a shot in the armthan a chip on his shoulder – so that when the…
Where it is, and how it got there
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An interview with a loneliness researcher about the varieties of social isolation
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These scientists are proposing a new law of nature
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We’ve come a long way since then
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The totally ace online booksellers BookKind have chosen ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ as their Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April. This is doubly good news because every copy sold via BookKind raises money for charity – just select from a range of charitable organisations when you order: https://bookkind.co.uk/book-of-the-month-home/ In…
Our culture valorises the big, coherent self: reading Robert Musil helps me embrace the beauty of my no-self existence
- by Mette Leonard Høeg
(A piece I wrote for the Guardian) A couple of weeks ago, just before my 70th birthday, I completed the Mooloolaba standard distance triathlon (1,500m swim, 40km cycle, 10km run). There was nothing exceptional about my performance, placing 1,509 out of 1,730 overall and 14th out of 18 in my 65-69 age category. But not […]
The racist origin story of the most common college entrance exam
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Insects just aren’t what they used to be
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When a father of astronomy wrote the first science-fiction book about the dark side of the moon
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Suggesting deep evolutionary roots of rhythm in animals
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Timing is key
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The transition from green to yellow is more complicated than previously thought
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It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to finalise a major project that has an impending (very) deadline. So happy holidays to all not that the global events are anything to be very happy about.
The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted there he was –chasing sticks,doing tricks,and all that stuff next minute, woof
Pete McTighe, Steven Moffat, and more attended the screening of the recovered Doctor Who episodes "The Nightmare Begins" and "Devil's Planet."
Slow Puncture I’d use every one of them – each tiny symbol / sign –to ‘light up’ my words … and write eye-catching lines:the comma; the colon; the ellipsis; the slash;the question mark; the hyphen; the en and em dash. In stanzas 1-2, it was all there on show(Was there nothing not used? The short…
By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end.
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Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of tear gases and “less-lethal” projectiles has become a mainstay of protest crackdowns.
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When the viral video cooled off, people thought the case against the 62-year-old would be dropped. Prosecutors doubled down.
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The "lost" episodes of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan ("The Nightmare Begins" & "Devil's Planet") are now available to screen on YouTube.