Tag: modern civilization
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Palmyra: Islamists exposing the total void in western values. [OR: Let it burn. Let it burn...]
Palmyra is now in the hands of IS. (1) Soon, any monument there will be history. And while islamists kill, rape and destroy down here on the ground, the civilized West will be bombarding them from the air... The once Christianic Europe, the cradle of civilization, is now just a... void ready to be filled…
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Technology does NOT work! No really. Ask your loan mower...
Many people argue in favor of our way of life. And the greatest and easiest way of arguing is throwing away lines like "Technology works". Well, I was recently watching a video were a man with a scythe competed against a loan mower. And guess what: the man with the scythe won! Not only did it complete…
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Being cool…
People from the past showing what "classy" means. (1) We like to believe we are better than the older ones. We like to believe we progress. We like to believe things are getting better with time. But better is not something given to younger people by default. Better is something you gain. Better is something…
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Love chemistry. Ending love. Killing the heart...
Love and heartache have always been inexorably tied. Recall the paranoid, lust-dizzy characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the tortured, memory-deprived lovers in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Wouldn't it be nice if a pill could take away the pain of a breakup? Researchers are looking into it. As unromantic as it sounds,…
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UK, Research, Deadlines - Another plague of science...
England's giant sequencing endeavor, the 100,000 Genomes Project, is getting a cash injection from public and private sources to meet its 2017 deadline, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. (1) Science with deadlines. It seems logical and proper. But how can you reach truth with deadlines? Unless you make shortcuts to fit the... schedule? Thought cannot…
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