- ‘The Outiders’ article about ‘high IQ’ and social maladjustment
- Why Smart people defend bad ideas
- Irreverent review of ‘Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid’ by Robert J. Sternberg at salon.com
- ‘put whale-hunting rights up for auction, allowing both killers
and conservationists to bid. The chances are that those who prefer
whales to swim free would be able to outbid the few remaining humans
who like eating them.’ (economist article, paywalled) - Northern Green Gathering festival
- Brad Warner’s Heart Sutra
- Red Deer spoken word antics audio archive
- The true story of the guy who tied ballons to his lawn chair so he could fly, and what happened to him (the straight dope)
- How to get from the UK to Ireland by train and ferry
- ‘As they predicted, Kim and Hatfield found a significant positive correlation between level of companionate love and life satisfaction (beta=.34), while there was no correlation between passionate love and life satisfaction.’
- ‘The transvestites first appeared in March when they raided Magazine Street like a marauding army of kleptomaniacal showgirls, said Davis, using clockwork precision and brute force to satisfy high-end boutique needs.’
- Martin Sereno’s presentation on Peak Oil (via onemonkey.org)
- See also: Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies
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