Principle as Narcissism
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President Bush says he can save Social Security, which is due to go bust in 2053, without cutting benefits to those who are now or will soon be retired, and also without raising the payroll tax.
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Think about the differences between stories and facts. Between generating interest and pursuing knowledge. Between grabbing attention and building out what we know. Then think about the connections between the freedom to build code and the freedom to inform one's self and others. Because the former is a model for the latter. read more
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Comment is free: Catherine Bennett:  Without the prejudice she has experienced, Hodge would be more important now. Prime minister, for example.
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: So keen are America's leaders to hear dissent they're videotaping the dissenters. Welcome to a world of total surveillance.
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I&#39;m not the first person to suggest Mozart suffered from Tourette&#39;s syndrome. The idea was mooted by a Scandinavian scientist who based his theory on the scatological tone of Mozart&#39;s letters.
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Aligning technology and business â what a concept. Everyone is talking about it, but to put things in perspective, I imagine the day after the wheel was invented the wife of the inventor got sick and tired of watching her husband roll it down the hill all day. She probably said, âCyxny, honey, why donât you make another one and put them on the cart?â
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: Ministers are afraid to assert the principles that underpin the wider contract between efficiency and fairness
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For a lot of people, sports is all about ego. It's fine to get into the pursuit of excellence. I don't think that in itself is pathological. But we go overboard and lose sight of everything else, and that pursuit of excellence becomes obsessive-compulsive. When your self-confidence is entirely...
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The Lab judging panel will be busy this weekend picking a winner in the speak-to-the-Prime-Designer contest. (You can still enter today.) As they toil tirelessly, let us ponder this designerâs ethics, and whether it&#8217;s better to live in simulated joy or be really miserable. The posthuman Prime Designer may not care much what our puny [...].
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ÂThe lingering, perceived essence of anotherÂ sounds like the subject of a Proustian rumination. In fact, it is a line from an academic paper last April in The Journal of Marketing, by Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales. The authors examined a phenomenon that drives store managers crazy: consumers love to touch products in stores, but they hate buying things others have touched.
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By Whitehead, Neil L  Almost all theoretical and research approaches to violence begin with the assumption that, at its core, violence represents the breakdown of meaning, the advent of the irrational, and the commission of physical harm.
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Neurosis has its Masonic tendencies. Thereâs an obsession with craft, and with mysticism â or at least the puniness of manâs will against larger forces.
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There is a dissonance between two camps of modern liberal ideology, both of which have had a deep influence on my thinking. On the one hand there is the green ideology that advocates buying locally produced products or growing your own and the general  reduction of energy usage. On the other there is the drop the debt coalition that is attempting to help the developing world drag itself up and become a richer place.   This article is my attempt to resolve their influence on my own beliefs, with regards to philanthropy.
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A modest proposal for a better world through 'Borat.'
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Zeno of Elea famously postulated his many paradoxes in defence of Parmenides' worldview: that all is "oneness," and pluralism is merely an illusion.    Of his forty paradoxes, the four most enduring have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and regular pundits for millennia.    As one of the many pundits ensnared by Zeno's challenges, I will present my own analysis of arguably his most famous paradox of all: The race between Achilles and the tortoise.
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Tycho:  Did I not tell you?  Did I not suggest that when natural justice fails, another burning energy may deliver that result which is good and proper?  Despair, mine enemies!  Unless you like swamps, in which case you might find my wrath pleasant.
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Feeling blue? Unloved? As if nobody appreciates you? Maybe no one can see your inner wonderfulness. Or maybe you deserve to be forsaken. Maybe you are unloved because you're such a jerk, simply unlovable. Maybe you're a victim of the old maxim: "If you can't say anything nice . . . "