- Damned or redeemed?
- Passive dynamics: ‘walking is just the name we give to the way this type of object falls down hills’
- The Ontology of the French Revolution
- A great advert, for VB
- Loss of episodic memory may help with endurance sports
- World-wide Berlinification ‘Temporary lease agreements will enable owners who want to retain a vacant property in the long term to make it available for community or creative use’
- ‘Dialectacal bootstrapping’
- Great blog post on prism adaptation experiments
- Žižek in the LRB: ‘Alain Badiou has proposed a distinction between two types (or rather levels) of corruption in democracy: the first, empirical corruption, is what we usually understand by the term, but the second pertains to the form of democracy per se, and the way it reduces politics to the negotiation of private interests.’
- Just because you don’t remember something, doesn’t mean it hasn’t changed you
- xkcd: ‘I’m concerned that we’re sitting here like I’m a responsible adult’
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