The transgressive order of subversive associative rhetoric in the ambiguous...
Some thoughts on a day that is so overcast and smoggy in Tianjin that it’s difficult to see the TV tower two miles away: I don’t know or care a great deal about traditional Chinese medicine, but it is...
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Tight ends from the University of Colorado seem to be disproportionately represented on NFL rosters. Currently, former Colorado tight ends Tom Ashworth, Christian Fauria, Daniel Graham, Joe...
View ArticleThe joy of not giving a damn
Various academic institutions and government ministries in America and Britain have recently begun dedicating specific groups and centers to the study and propagation of happiness. The cynical might...
View ArticleFrom the availability heuristic to Cayley’s Theorem in 74 steps
Via Daring Fireball, the other day I came across this review of The Black Swan, where one of the commenters linked to the Wikipedia article on the availability heuristic. A couple of hours later, when...
View ArticleWho’s ever had 95 good theses all at once?
A man with one new idea can start a creed, a cult, an ideology. A man with a hundred, a thousand, starts nothing. He might perhaps awake a dormant mind, but if he does the triumph will simultaneously...
View ArticleLeaving the scavengers
Studying literature at a place like Harvard makes a contradictory impression: on the one hand, everyone is secretly proud of themselves for fighting their way to the top of the little academic mound...
View ArticleBacking up to youth
I’ve never really understood why at stoplights the flashing hand on the walk sign goes longer than the yellow light. You would think that since people on foot go about 1/10 the speed of cars and...
View ArticleTremors and flashbacks at the strand of nightmares
Generally I’d have to say that the age of 23 is like being on a foggy mountain peak, where suddenly you don’t even know anymore whether going forward leads up or down. I’ve started to suspect that even...
View ArticleA virgin discharge
I shot a gun for the first time two days ago. My friend’s girlfriend has a shotgun and he has a pistol, though I’m not sure whether they got them before or after meeting each other. Since with two guns...
View ArticleCinematic promenade
The shirts hanging on the wall look like children that have been beaten down to empty skin. This country is either veering leftwards or rightwards without being aware of it, or so I infer from the...
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