A Good Person Dyes

Modern-day takes on old news.

Author: Morzano

March 22, 2023

Diogenes, the Original Minimalist, on Minimalism

BBC, diogenes, minimalist, Philosopher
February 27, 2023

Polachek, Hegel, Boulanger on Music

boulanger, fischer, hegel, music, polachek
February 12, 2023

Thomas Rid on ChatGPT in the classroom

ai, chatgpt, thoms rid
February 12, 2023

Milken Review on Airline Deregulation

airlines, milken review
October 31, 2022

The Uppsala University on a New Way of Measuring Time

electrons, rydberg, time
August 11, 2022

Oliver Burkeman by way of Joseph Goldstein on Generosity

Altruism, Generosity, Joseph Goldstein, Oliver Burkeman
August 1, 2022

Guillaume Wolf on How to Create the Future

guillaume, how to create the future, meditation, wolf
June 14, 2022

Kevin P. Hand on Oceans and Airport Security

airport security, Europa, Galileo, Kevin P. Hand, NASA, oceans
April 14, 2022

Blum against the boundaries of any single destiny

Exuberance, mortality, Robert Frederick Blum, satisfaction, the ameya
April 13, 2022

The Etymological Compendium on why it’s odious to slap your fools

comedians, fools, Hamlet, jesters, McClellan, political cartoon
April 12, 2022

Kay Redfield Jamison on The intensity of exuberance

Chrysantehmums, Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers 1893 Gustave Caillebotte, Exuberance, Gustave Caillebotte
April 6, 2022

Justin Murphy on The Improvement Illusion

improvement, justin murphy, pride, thomas merton
March 24, 2022

Robert Hayden’s poem “American Journal”

american journal, poem, poetry, robert hayden
March 22, 2022

Knausgaard on the zeitgeist

karl ove, karl ove knausgaard, zeitgeist
March 21, 2022

Chodron on the wisdom of no escape and story of a woman running away from tigers

pema chodron, tigers
December 29, 2021

Carolina Busta on the Internet

beauty, belief, dawn, essays, justin e.h. smith, meaning, nature, pleasure, solnit, value, virtual
December 17, 2021

Zweig on Memory

Quote, zweig
December 8, 2021

Einstein’s Three Rules of Work

einstein, Quote, three rules of work
November 16, 2021

Culture is to society as style is to the individual

culture, individual, perell, Quote, society, Style
November 14, 2021

Eric Fromm on how love is primarily giving, not receiving

art, Eric Fromm, giving, love
November 4, 2021

David Foster Wallace on default-settings

attention, David Foster Wallace, thinking, this is water
August 7, 2021

Kierkegaard on expression, irony, and humor

aesthetic, Either-Or, existence, fast day, Hubben, humor, intelligence, irony, Kierkegaard, moral, Renoir, rowlandson, sea and cliffs
May 19, 2021

The U.S. on how to lose a nuclear weapon

1956, B-47, broken arrow, Cold War, Hodgin, Insley, Kurtz, March 10, nuclear, weapon
May 18, 2021

On the nuclear exercise “Snowball” (Снежок)?

nuclear, Sergey Zelentsov, snowball, test range, Totskoye, winter
May 17, 2021

Whistler’s “Nocturne: Blue and Gold…” is melodious and harmonious

American, art, harmonious, melodious, music, Sunday Showcase, Whistler
May 17, 2021

Oak Ridge on radioactive mist

John Hendrix, nuclear, Oak Ridge
May 17, 2021

Yeltsin’s close nuclear call

Boris, nuclear, nuclear briefcase, President, radiation, Russia, Trident, Yeltsin
May 13, 2021

Larkin’s Poetry Of Departures

head of an old man, head of an old woman, larkin, poetry, the herdman
March 11, 2021

Carl Sagan on the dumbing down of America and how science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking

1995, America, Carl sagan, dumb, dumbing, knowledge, manufacturing, science, superstition
February 17, 2021

Robin Williams on rich temptations

blow, cocaine, coke, morals, problem, robin, robin williams, temptations
February 8, 2021

Billy Collins on the arbitrary distinction between revision and writing

billy collins, interview, MFA, paris review, revision, William matthews, workshop, writing
February 8, 2021

Billy Collins on how no man is lonely while eating spaghetti

billy collins, christopher morly, poem, poetry, spaghetti, vivace
January 9, 2021

Me on Surveilling Surveillance

Al Gore, art, CCTV, CCTV technology, Defense Department, di Castiglione, environment sleuthing, MEDEA, NRO, photoreconnaissance, Pierre-Louis Pierson, planetary change, Redon, satellites, Scherzo di Follia, scientists, Spy, surveillance, The Eye, US intelligence community
January 5, 2021

John Cleese and “Beer Mode”

Beer Mode, coffee, Coffee mode, contemplation, curiosity, David Perell, John Cleese, Monty Python, Paul Graham, play, productivity, Quote
January 5, 2021

The Fermi Paradox on the Great Silence

fermi paradox, game theory, Great silence, Killing Star, nightmare, Quora, science, science fiction
December 12, 2020

Dean Kissick on Virtual Pleasure

Dan Kissick, love, virtual pleasure
December 8, 2020

Carry on: an epitaph to a bag

bag, suitcase, textile bag
October 27, 2020

Pulitzer Prize winners Will and Ariel Durant on the lessons of history

Ariel Durant, conversative, lessons of history, old, partisan, politics, Pulitzer Prize, Quote, radical, Wil & Arient Durant, Will Durant, young
October 11, 2020

Pythagoras on Beans and Hepatia on Oyster Shells

Charles Mitchell, fun facts, Greek, Hepatia, oyster shells, Philosophy, Pythagoras, Pythagoras of Samos, quotes
August 29, 2020

Pieter Bruegel the Elder on Harvest

art, autumn, ceramic, Fall, harvest, harvesters, jugs, open source, pieter bruegel the elder, robert burnal of cutcombe
August 29, 2020

A poem on Vespers (End of August)

end of August, Fall, gluck, louise, poem, Poet, poetry, vespers
July 17, 2020

Legasov, the soviet chemist, said that to be a scientist is to be naive

Chernobyl, government, ideology, religion, science, scientist, truth, Valery Legasoy
May 11, 2020

Yordi As Seen By Yordi

As Seen By, Deaf, interview, interview series, Yordi, Yordi Morales
February 28, 2020

What I love is blue

1479-1468, 1st century A.D., art, blue, Bryana Morales, Capri, Egyptian Scarab, Evocation, finger ring, George Shreiber Georges, Greek, Hans Holebin the Younger, Hatshepsut, Henry Brockman, Hermann von Wedigh III, Insook Hong, Jeannot Salmon, La Mer, Marie Laurencin, Monterey, Nu devant la mer, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Rome, The Met, Thutmose III, Trace
February 21, 2020

The Marriage of Romeo & Juliet by Death (1967-1975) by Salvador Dali

art, Salvador, Salvador Dali, The Marriage of Romeo & Juliet, The Marriage of Romeo & Juliet by Death (1967-1975) by Salvador Dali, The Marriage of Romeo and Juliet
February 17, 2020

Daniel Coyle on The Talent Code: Greatness isn’t born, it’s grown.

Daniel Coyle, music, skill, talent, The Talent Code
December 10, 2019

The Great Mathematician Paul Erdős on Possessions and Coffee

coffee, Erdős, math, mathematician, Paul Erdos, possessions
December 10, 2019

Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic

Born before the wind, Into the Mysteric, quotes, Van Morrison
November 24, 2019

The only difference between the Surrealists and me is that I am a Surrealist – Salvador Dalí

art, Dalí, painting, Quote, Salvador Dali, Surrealists, The Temptation of St. Anthony
October 19, 2019

Henry Miller on the mystery of attention

meditation, moment, mystery, pause, Quote, quotes, world
October 2, 2019

What Charles Bukowski didn’t say

attribution, Bukowski, falsely yours, Find what you love, Find what you love and let it kill you, for all things will kill you, let it kill you, misquoted, quotes, Writer
September 30, 2019

Daniel J. Levitin on Organization: Chapter 1

behavioral, behavioral psychology, categorization, chapter, cognitive, cognitive psychology, levitin, psychology, research
August 31, 2019

All of Life is Practice

inspiration, life, packing, Philosophy, writing, years
August 15, 2019

Fear and Circumstance in Las Vegas

advice, cat, fear, typewriter, want
July 20, 2019

Wages in Cuba and a quote from my former Professor of Latin American Politics

Cuba, Economics, politics, prices, salary, state, subsidies, wages
July 20, 2019

The Gallery Inn

art, Inn, Rico, San Juan
July 20, 2019

Frame control on why gun control is political in the U.S.A

America, Control, Guns, heterogeneity, political, population, U.S.A, urban
July 20, 2019

I’ve decided on Tolstoy’s Decision Making Matrix

advice, decision, decision-making, improvement, matrix, Moscow, Napolean, quotes, self, The Art of, The Art of Decision-Making, Tolstoy, War and Peace
July 6, 2019

Klaus Fuchs on secrets on the American atomic project

American, Atomic, atomic heritage, bomb, Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs, nuclear, nuclear bomb, nuclear files, nuclear weapons, project, SIS, Soviet, Soviet Union, Spy, U.S.A, USA
July 6, 2019

On the secret closed city, озёрск / Ozersk

cities, closed, озёрск, freedom, Ozersk, paradise, Russian, Yevgeny Zamyatin
June 30, 2019

Expanding our limits by learning a language

advice, Chris Lonsdale, excerpt, language, learning, limits, modelling, Quote, ted talk, TedTalk, TedX, TEDxLingnanUniversity, transcript
June 29, 2019

The Action Movie Fairy Tale

generation, last, movie, plot, psychiatry, psychology, Quote, quotes, synopsis, violence
June 6, 2019

Alex Steffen on how Optimism is a political act.

advice, optimism, Philosophy, Quote, The Bright Green City
June 5, 2019

Nora Taylor on her fear of octopi

Alek Trebek, fear, humor, Man Repeller, Nora Taylor, octopi, Quote
May 28, 2019

Alan watts on the length of life

advice, Alan Watts, life, living, Philosophy, Quote, self help, self-help
May 28, 2019

Twain on the Safe Harbor

Quote, Sail
May 11, 2019

Me on Pleasure

advice, Alain de Botton, featured, happy, life, Montaigne, pleasure
May 6, 2019

Omar Khayyam, Wise Guy, on Wise Living

Omar Khayyam, Quote, Wisdom
May 6, 2019

Kahneman and Tversky on their Prospect Theory

hours, Kahneman, prospect, prospect theory, time, Tversky
May 6, 2019

Recommendations to impress your cat with: photos of Colette

cats, Cocteau, Colette, French, Jean, Jean Cocteau, Writers
May 1, 2019

Me on a Creator

art, creation, culture, music, Nina Simone, Virginia
March 8, 2019

3 Minutes with Michel de Montaigne

16th century, featured, Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher, Philosophy, Writers
February 13, 2019

A Quick and Dirty Snapshot of Marcel Proust

Characters, featured, Marcel, Philosopher, Philosophy, Proust, Writers