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Pulse.
I'm in the midst of some glorified collection of 3rd grade book reports, it seems. Now I want to make an attempt at characterizing my state, so that I may have a chance of remembering that, too ( Read more... ) -
Steve Almond -- The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories
Pretty much the best short stories ever.
It doesn't feel like reading the same story over and over again at all. Each is unique and way too much fun. -
Jeff Hawkins -- On Intelligence
Yeah. Brains are cool.
It's neat to read about an elegant and fully integrated theory on human intelligence. Plus it's very approachable.
"You can be intelligent just lying in the dark, thinking and understanding ( Read more... ) -
William Easterly -- The White Man's Burden
Lately, there have been a lot of fancy summits and conferences on AIDS, poverty, globalization, global warming... but it seems like most of those areas are in the midst of crisis rather than in recovery. The summits, the lofty goals, the thousand page manuals don't make people richer and healthier in and of themselves ( Read more... ) -
Peter Singer -- One World.
It seems super important to always consider the impact of what I'm doing on others. One of the things I'm becoming way too acutely aware of is that I can't just look at the people directly within my circle of influence but rather have to take a huge step back and think of global repercussions. We're constantly making industries viable or not by ( Read more... ) -
Depression.
Ok, here it goes. The candid, uncensored answer to the two questions I've been getting a lot and kind of avoiding -- "what happened to you? What are you doing these days ( Read more... ) -
Carolyn Nordstrom -- Shadows of War
Of course, I'm far from the only person with a sneaking suspicion that many wars are encouraged by a political machine driven by profit. Diving into the world of war-time extralegal economies not only went a lot way in confirming my suspicions but also provided tremendous insight into the economic workings of the world's poorest regions ( Read more... ) -
Roger Gottlieb -- A Spirituality of Resistance
I believe in a "horizontal" kind of approach to spirituality where closeness is established not with some sort of supreme, distant being, but with tangible entities around me, as equals. I don't really like the idea of disguising suffering and hardship as contributing to some ultimate goal or looking to the promise of some other, future reality to ( Read more... )
