“The idea that consciousness is in the brain is so ingrained in our science, in our everyday speech, even in popular culture that it seems almost beyond question. “We just don’t even notice that we are adopting a view that… Read More »Recommended Read: What Plants Are Saying About Us
“what was one of the earliest online food delivery platforms? That would be Talabat, launched by a group of Kuwaiti students in Cairo, in 2004. That’s three years before the iPhone came to market.” https://restofworld.org/2023/rest-vs-west/
“Discoveries almost never arrive as we think they will, as lightning bolt eurekas. They are slow, gradual, communal. Alien life may not be something we ever ‘find’, but instead inch towards, ever closer, like a curve approaching its asymptote. For… Read More »Recommended Read: Alien life might not be something science can ever ‘discover’
Fascinating exploration of tools used throughout history since fingercounting to Apollo missions Snippet “when US forces occupying Japan organised a maths competition between an army private with an electric calculator and a local civil servant with a beaded soroban (Japanese… Read More »Recommended Read: James Vincent · Instrumental Tricks: Prosthetic Brainpower
“aby ste v prostredí malých mestečiek či v horách niekoho nútili čosi nasilu zmeniť, to sa neoplatí. To vidia aj Američania v Afganistane. Nehovorím, že sme tiež Paštúni, ale v niečom platí, čo Ľubomír Lipták povedal o Slovensku: že je ako oko hurikánu. To znamená,… Read More »Odporúčané čítanie: Sociálny antropológ Juraj Buzalka: Progresívci nevedia osloviť vidiek, Fico hovorí jeho jazykom, ale nemá mu čo dať
“That was the year that Ukraine was likely closer to becoming a member of the Western alliance than ever, before or since. United States President George W. Bush stood solidly behind Kyiv's accession. But the effort failed, as Zelenskyy made… Read More »Recommended Read: Ukraine: How Merkel Prevented Ukraine’s NATO Membership
“The bottom 80% of men are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men. “ eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/the-matching-problem-in-dating
“We asked how we could simplify the UI to meet the resource constraints (engineer time) we had. “The city teams only know how to use Excel, just make it like Excel.” We tried explaining why that was hard and what… Read More »Recommended Read: No sacred masterpieces – by Matt Basta – Basta’s Notes
“Zároveň sa veľa kvír ľudí z môjho okolia od tej skratky dištancuje. Istý čas som to tiež robila. To napríklad znamená, že osoba sa pri coming-oute nenazve lesbou, ale povie: „Mám preferenciu na ženy.“ Deje sa to aj práve preto,… Read More »Odporúčané čítanie: Necítim sa ako pliaga, hovorí žena, ktorá bola kedysi homofóbna a dnes žije s partnerkou
“Tieto traumy sme však bravúrne zvládli. Podmaňovaniu sme stáročia odolávali. Prijali sme hlaholiku a kresťanské hodnoty. Národne sme sa obrodili ako svojbytní Západoslovania a kodifikovali slovenčinu. S Čechmi sme založili jednu z prvých demokratických a multikultúrnych republík na svete. Povstali… Read More »Odporúčané čítanie: Psychoanalytik Podolan: Ak si Slovensko neuvedomí svoje mentálne ťažkosti, hrozí, že odovzdá moc fašizmu