I’ve taken up an old hobby again: rambling about moral philosophy. Science writer John Bohannon (creator of the “Dance Your PhD” competition) started a blog about bioethics, and I’ll be contributing posts and comments there.
The blog, called “The Electric Monk,” is a collaboration between bloggers from around the country who are interested in the [...]
It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia—all the histrionics of love.
From the Futurist Manifesto of Lust, a polemic against the “false hypocritical modesty” of romantic love, written by an [...]
Can you tell a story in two sentences? Post it to this blog, and maybe you’ll even win $50 AUD (Australian dollars). The guy who edits and picks the stories is a freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia with an eye for interesting sentences. Most of the submissions aren’t mind-blowing, but some manage to pack quite [...]
This might actually be better than last year’s video.
Thanks to Ty and Devon for filming, remixing, and producing this.