August 2010
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The importance of puncuation (neat Wiki link). →
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“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler’s helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do...
June 2010
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May 2010
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WatchThe question of exactly what mirror neurons are, and their role in our brain, has been the subject of ongoing research and debate; linking them to evolutionary roles of imitation, language acquisition, and empathy, among many others. Ramachandran is a researcher of considerable fame in behavioural science and neurology, and this is an interesting and short spiel on the whole affair. Whether mirror...
DFW Interviewed by Eggers (2003) →
Excerpt from an interesting interview with David Foster Wallace by Dave Eggers for the Nov/2003 issue of The Believer:
“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it’s next to...
April 2010
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March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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