(Jen Sorensen) – Jen Sorensen:
The increasingly unscientific and dumbed-down programming we’re seeing on cable represents a total breakdown of Enlightenment empiricism. If all of this supernatural stuff is happening while scientists say it isn’t real, why trust them about anything? Obviously THEY are hiding something they don’t want you to know! Why believe what THEY say about COVID or climate change? Or who won the 2020 election, for that matter? …
(NewYorker Culture) – Stephen Greenblatt:
The recovery of “On the Nature of Things” is a story of how the world swerved in a new direction. The agent of change was not a revolution, an implacable army at the gates, or landfall on an unknown continent. When it occurred, nearly six hundred years ago, the key event was muffled and almost invisible, tucked away behind walls in a remote place. A short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties reached out one day, took a very old manuscript off a shelf, and saw with excitement what he had discovered. That was all; but it was enough. …
newyorker 2011/08/08 answer-man
(LXer) – Scott Ruecker:
In the area of window managers Linux users are completely and totally spoiled rotten. …
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/90285/index.html
Linux Today – Carla Schroder: Windows is Easier, Just Like Stabbing Your Own Eyeballs is Easier
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