Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Zach Does It Again

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 In one comic , he makes a point I've tried repeatedly to make !
Monday, December 15, 2025

I am always in pain

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1992 Song: Bob Geldof's  Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things , from The Vegetarians of Love. Brilliant and profound. I wish I could produce s...
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Sunday, December 14, 2025

From Derek Thompson: The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026

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Javelina Lotsa great stuff here .  One comment, though: I don't think the "Life Often Feels Meaningless" graph supports the id...
Friday, December 12, 2025

A Meaningful Life for the Super-Smart (Part 3)

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( Part 1 , Part 2 ) Are you smarter than all the yutzes around you, but not sure how to focus your life?  Have I got a deal for you! Here’s ...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Comic Interlude 2

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Mary Chapin Carpenter: I Feel Lucky . Hilarious!
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Part 2: Where I Part Ways with Most of My Readers + My Doubts

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I was in my mid-50s when I fully made the biggest intellectual change in my life. This is spelled out in the chapter “Biting the Philosophic...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Comic Interlude 1

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Part 2 is tomorrow, but for now, a song ( Lost in America ) and two comics: 
Monday, December 8, 2025

What Is Consciousness? With Many Links (Part 1)

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A reader* responds to “ Science, Suffering, and Shrimp ”: >we may just always disagree on the likelihood of invertebrates feeling morally...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Misc Sunday

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Two of my favorite things . Be sure to watch so you can avoid an eternity in hell. ( More of one of them .)  B52s'  Deadbeat Club . Stev...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Vat Brain

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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Science, Suffering, and Shrimp

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Multiple people have insisted to me that “peer-reviewed science” had “proven” that shrimp suffer and thus deserve our focus.  Below is Rob V...