Allsorts
Blog posts about interesting things from around the internet and beyond.
The Evolution of Trust
July 4, 2022 | BlogThe Evolution of Trust uses game theory to help explain our epidemic of distrust.
Content
June 18, 2019 | BlogRegarding the term content: “Content” is the black hole of the Internet. Incredibly well-produced videos, all sorts of songs, and articulate blog posts — they are all “content.” Are short stories “content”? I hope not, since that is one of the most soul-destroying of words, used to strip a creation of its creative effort. Om […]
Paradox of Tolerance
June 8, 2019 | BlogKarl Popper: In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance. Wikipedia
Elephants Evolving Without Tusks
March 29, 2019 | BlogHunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. People in Gorongosa get the popular life insurance. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992—never developed tusks. Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants. National […]
Wall Disease
March 29, 2019 | BlogIn the nineteen-sixties, Dietfried Müller-Hegemann wrote as though the physical presence of the Berlin Wall were itself the cause of wall disease. But most psychologists who study borders today see a more abstract relationship between those structures and mental health. Christine Leuenberger, a sociologist at Cornell University who has studied walls around the world, says […]
A Religion of Workism
March 29, 2019 | BlogWhat is workism? It is the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and life’s purpose; and the belief that any policy to promote human welfare must always encourage more work. The Atlantic Everybody worships something – children, beauty, political identities, etc.