What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. Le Guin (via azspot)
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K. Le Guin (via azspot)
David Foster Wallace: “Consider the Lobster” Gourmet Magazine, August 2004.
How nuclear fears helped inspire creation of the internet – Sharon Weinberger | Aeon Essays The fig tree is pollinated only by the insect Blastophaga grossorun. The larva of the insect lives in the ovary of the fig tree, and there it gets its food. The tree and the insect are thus heavily interdependent: the…
The semester winds down rainy and typhoon-like, which is to say whirling toward disorder and confusion. Got a good bit done this semester (promotion, citizenship app, etc.) but lots of delays in ‘scholarly productivity.’ My brain burns, have headaches and feel out of sorts on a semi-regular basis (I visit the little drugstore lady to…