Last month’s bunch of random stuff:
- A look at how both Apple and Star wars have come to dominate our “tech aesthetic” in a very deep sense
- Something about Nirvana (not the band)
- Michael Polan (of Omnivore fame) talking about psychedelics (on NPR! this stuff is going mainstream again!)
- File this under this month’s humor section: a 30-year old man had to be sued by his parents to get him to move out of their house
- Ditto, but the darker variety: story of a man who remained functionally illiterate while being a high school teacher. Choice quote:
Why did I go into teaching? Looking back it was crazy that I would do that. But I’d been through high school and college without getting caught – so being a teacher seemed a good place to hide. Nobody suspects a teacher of not knowing how to read.
- On the “Very Short Introduction …” series
(there isn’t a lot here this time, partly due to it just being a busy time, partly because I was in Australia for a good third of the month …)
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