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Monthly Archives: October, 2018

  • The Clock, Part 1: Introduction 2018-10-17

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  • Writing, Thinking
  • All for Nothing
  • Midsommar
  • On listening to albums
  • Sally Rooney’s Normal People
  • Dopamine in Daniel Deronda
  • An experiment in phonelessness
  • The Clock, Part 6: Dusk
  • On writing at speed
  • The Clock, Part 5: Sunrise

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  • The Muses
    In recent weeks it has occurred to me that I know next to nothing about the muses. Their enumeration — nine by most counts (also known as an…
  • Epicurus and Happiness
    Today I’m thinking about Epicurus’ view of happiness. This section comes directly between the two passages on the future (“We must remember…
  • Epicurus and Death
    Epicurus is sometimes seen as anti-Stoic. Certainly Epictetus and other Stoics seem to have reviled him, as I wrote yesterday. Epicurus was…
  • Epicurus
    Epicurus has had a tough time of it since he wrote and taught (~341–270 BCE). It’s a good thing he was level-headed about posterity: We must…
  • Freedom
    A few years ago, at my discussion group, we read Isaiah Berlin’s essay “Two Concepts of Liberty” (1958): PDF of the Essay Two Concepts of…
  • Heritability of variability
    Yesterday I wrote about Darwin’s foreshadowing of r/K selection theory. Today I’ll argue that The Origin of Species also predicts punctuated…
  • Darwin and r/K selection
    Today I’m thinking about Darwin and r/K selection theory. Wikipedia had led me to believe that this was an idea of Robert MacArthur and E. O…
  • Five-Day Fast
    Last week, from Monday 2 November to Friday 6 November 2020, I did a self-run writing retreat at home, during which I also fasted. For those…
  • Oxygenic Photosynthesis
    In the beginning, there was anoxygenic photosynthesis. OK, not in the beginning beginning, but at least before oxygenic photosynthesis…
  • Revolutions break bottlenecks
    Part of a series on revolutions. On this page we define bottlenecks and think about some revolutions that break them. Definition What is a…
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