June 2009
27 posts
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The...
“This spending the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“A few years ago, microbiologist Gemma Reguera of Michigan State University...”
– Microbes May Be More Networked Than You Are
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions...”
– Edward Bernays
“…what follows is a quote from a New York Times article: the delay in...”
– A different take on the State Department’s Twitter request by Evgeny Morozov
“Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative...”
– Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away
WatchPatricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can’t be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
“Seeing some of these people online turning their profile pictures green “for...”
– Jeremy Scahill (via mikesoron)
“The demand that radicals be free from hypocrisy, free from any implication in...”
– “Days of War, Nights of Love” by the CrimethInc. Collective (via sustainable systems)
“If, at the end of the war, the scientific organization, which had been created...”
– In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
“…the way scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own...”
– Bruno Latour in Pandora’s Hope
“The truth has no casual power that draws scientific beliefs towards it. Instead,...”
– Sergio Sismondo
“The most illuminating analogy for today’s corporate leadership is this:...”
– The Capitalist Manifesto — How to Modernize Capitalism from Feudalism to Democracy
““Slacktivism” is the ideal type of activism for a lazy generation:...”
– The brave new world of slacktivism
