a Radiolab podcast about creativity, obsession and the right posterior neocortex.
road sign in Abauj county, Hungary
…if we believe in liberty, if we want the air we breathe to remain plentiful and breathable, this is the art whose right to exist we must not only defend, but celebrate. Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it’s a revolution.
“Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world.”
the “Lord of the Ants” is a PBS NOVA documentary about the Alabama born scientist Edward O. Wilson.
the Gerecse Mountains, Hungary - Welcome Springness
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.
The Importance of Being Earnest from Oscar Wilde, in 1895
The great missing debate in contemporary politics is about the role and reach of markets. Do we want a market economy, or a market society? What role should markets play in public life and personal relations? How can we decide which goods should be bought and sold, and which should be governed by nonmarket values? Where should money’s writ not run?
The human mind is more amazing than the universe,” said my teenage daughter the other day. “How come?” I asked. “Well, it all really starts in our heads, doesn’t it? Like, without our minds there wouldn’t be a universe.
the Atlantic Ocean at Porthcawl, Wales
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