“Deemed most ‘authentic’ and ‘Amsterdam-style’, apartments in historic buildings (anything pre-war) are being sold first, leaving the ‘ugly’ 70s and 80s urban renewal flats largely untouched.”
Category: ideas
Clinging To Timelessness In A Changing Cosmos
“Traditional science has little to offer our longing for permanence, leading many to disenchantment, says commentator Marcelo Gleiser. Can we be scientific and satisfy our desire for transcendence?”
Five Common Beliefs About The Brain That Are Simply Wrong
You know what? There’s no such thing as “left-brained people” and “right-brained people,” and we use way more than 10% of our brains.
Motivational Posters From Your Favorite Depressing Philosophers
Why stop at Werner Herzog? Here are more photos of adorable critters accompanying existential despair from the likes of Nietzche, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Foucault, and Camus. (At left: Sisyphus.)
Why Does The Idea Of Multiple Universes Get Any Credibility From Scientists Whatsoever?
“[The hypothesis] is unlikely to be true, … [and] since no one knows how to test it, the idea is perhaps not truly scientific at all. Those are valid criticisms, but the main reason we should hold out is that it is incoherent, both philosophically and logically. There could be no better contender for Wolfgang Pauli’s famous put-down: it is not even wrong. And yet, it attracts both publicity and extraordinarily confident endorsement.”
Werner Herzog Motivational Posters
“Tired? Jaded? Lacking motivation and energy? Who better to provide you with a pep talk than cinema’s foremost exponent of positivity and general joie de vivre, Mr. Werner Herzog?!”
Here’s How Your Brain Lights Up On Celebrity Gossip
“While the students claimed there was nothing especially entertaining about the negative celebrity gossip, a part of their brain known to be involved in the experience of pleasure (the caudate nucleus) was extra active when they heard stories of movie stars doing naughty things.”
What Happened To Our Public Intellectuals? (And Where Did We Go Wrong?)
“If you ask the conditions that allowed Partisan Review to reach greatness—broaching an inquiry into what is necessary for the creation of “public intellect” in general, in the mid-20th century past—you face some unruly historical particulars.”
Exploring The Metaphysics Of Love
“Is love an emotion? An experience? Is it a kind of desire? Is it possible to love a fictional person? To love more than one person? Is romantic love fundamentally different from other kinds of love?” A Vancouver philosopher is investigating these questions.
Get Ready For Crowded Skies As Commercial Drones Become Legal
The FAA “said it believes that drones can save lives, boost the economy, and be integrated safely into the national airspace.”