- blaming the victims of alienation and exploitation
Benjamin Studebaker,
from What's Left
(4 Dec 2019)
“Why are we talking about hatred? It's epiphenomenal.” —Aimee Terese
- The Paratrooper's Prayer André Louis Arthur Zirnheld, from International War Veterans' Poetry Archive (adapted) (1942)
- italo calvino on the two cultures of the social sciences
Henry Farrell,
from Crooked Timber
(17 Sep 2009)
causal modeling and thick description
- team demographic composition affects a person's willingness to lead
Jingnan Chen,
from The Leadership Quarterly
(Nov 2019)
tell me about it
- ashley olson on social media and, like, actual narcissism
Ashley Olson,
from Girls Chat
(Nov 26 2019)
or: a dematerialized economy marketizes personality disorders, interesting power agglomerations ensue. A world in microcosm.
- andrea long chu responds to your pull request comment
Andrea Long Chu, from a tweet on 24 Nov 2019
thing that doesn’t matter does matter actually, our critic writes
- a salutary effect of genetic fragmentation
Freeman Dyson,
from The New York Review of Books
(May 2018)
genetic isolation intensifies genetic drift. a higher quantity of small, genetically isolated populations may be more likely than fewer non-isolated ones to produce intellectual revolutions.
- goodhart, lucas, heisenberg: variations on a theme
or: “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”
- let people be wrong
Peter Boghossian,
from City Journal
(November 2019)
or: against compulsive demands for coherence
- a dog was crying to-night in wicklow also Seamus Heaney, from Poetry Magazine (October-November 1995)
- actually gender is trending
Anna Khachiyan, from a tweet on 21 Nov 2019
If left to their own devices, straight women would just wear sensible flats and granny panties and straight men would just spiral deeper into neckbeardery, which is why performing gender is fun and cool.
- “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Harp-Weaver (1923)
- Bluebeard Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Renascence and Other Poems (1917)
- “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Vanity Fair (November 1920)
- Dirge Without Music Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems (1928)
- Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Poetry Magazine (August 1917)
- Song for Young Lovers in a City Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Poetry Magazine (October 1938)
- Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems (1923)
- “I, being born a woman and distressed” Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems (1923)
- Recuerdo Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Poetry Magazine (May 1919)
- the gell-mann amnesia effect
Michael Crichton,
from “Why Speculate?”
(2012)
or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the fake news