When we intermeet, as discreet realities contact, speech, gesture, glance, do we demean or enhance? Each self-written contract, in assemblage, decrees how we agree to impress. Do we freeze out compete? Do we extend, interact as friends less incomplete? Do we attend with intention, ever better perfect respect together? Who am I to ask? What do I risk? * Voices in my head speak in poetry, prose, creative nonfiction stories of courage, adventures in change. * Tales, whispered spells hypnotize, wrench veils between epiphany and daze. Mind hydrates in mists of memory. Prismatic drifts arouse ethereal imagery. Gales of peace. Inhale glacial wind. through secret private seasons. Breathe out sounds that bind in unity. * Spritely companion song twines along emergent lines of elemental splendor. From the depth of antiquity, the breadth of possibility, the alchemical equation of air, light, vibration. Peace, love, joy permeates all enthralled voices, and beyond.
A few days ago we learned that Oliver Sacks is The Man Who Mistook His Inner Demons For Data. Now here's a paper showing that the nudging literature is bullshit
I'm beginning to think that getting your non-fiction book on the front table at an airport Hudson News is as reliable an indicator of fraud as the Forbes 30 Under 30 list
For good social science, I can't recommend _The Ordinal Society_ by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy highly enough
well jesus christ. I hadn't seen the Oliver Sacks story. For others who haven't, here's the story about the New Yorker story: boingboing.net/2025/12/12/oliv…
Political rally for the pro-European presidential candidate Nicusor Dan, in Bucharest, Romania, Victory Square, May 11, 2025 (cc) fusion-of-horizon via Flickr.
Condensing Diesel Heater Hack Is Dripping With Efficiency
Not a huge percentage of our readers probably get their heat from diesel fuel, but it’s not uncommon in remote areas where other fuels are hard to come-by. If you’re …read more #hacking #projects hackaday.com/2025/12/13/conden…
Not a huge percentage of our readers probably get their heat from diesel fuel, but it’s not uncommon in remote areas where other fuels are hard to come-by. If you’re in one of those are…
Local Greens Cities and Twenty-first Century Environmental Problems by Katrina M. Wyman & Danielle Spiegel-Feld, 2025
As the federal government failed to take ambitious action to limit climate change in the early 21st century, many cities in the US pledged to step into the void. Networks of city governments and philanthropists offered support and cities invested their own resources in sustainability offices.
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Malta has joined Belgium, Italy and Bulgaria in urging the European Union to find alternatives to using €210 billion in frozen Russian assets to finance
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