Author: robert.adlington

The tumult of everyday family routine can make it hard for people to step back and think about their lives. As I often remind myself, something that can be done at any time tends to be done at no time, and the demands of parenthood make it easy to delay facing what can be difficult…

Knowing one’s place in the world. A sense, perhaps embodied in spiritual practice, that the individual is an insignificant part of a larger, more abiding universe. — Read on kottke.org/25/10/what-makes-for-a-healthy-society

Color me extremely skeptical: “It’s not replacing going out on a date and getting a girlfriend or having a lover, wife or a relationship. AI is a good place to let younger people practice their social skills,” Jones said, adding that AI allowed people to behave badly without consequences. “People will say things to an…

The path to a better Amazon doesn’t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to. The path leads through coalitions: of consumers and merchants who are tired of being robbed; of workers who…

fear creates protective habits and protective habits make us act out of whack with our values. The greater the fear, the greater the habit, the worse the warp. — Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/03/crippling-fear-of-being-judged-how-overcome-this

Liberal culture is more nerdy, idea focused, and autistic, which is my natural home. But I do get the idea that there is something soulless about it, and the way conservatives interact with one another is closer to how our species evolved to live – that is, either hiding women from public view, or allowing…

while our solar system hosts an equal number of rocky and giant planets, rocky planets appear to be more common in the universe. Researchers have also found a range of planets entirely different from those in our solar system. There are Jupiter-size planets that orbit closer to their parent star than Mercury orbits the Sun;…

Dr. Crockford and other researchers have also confirmed that chimpanzees communicate with a wealth of calls and gestures. Their work has recently raised the possibility that some of the fundamental parts of language might have been present in the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. Jill Pruetz, a primatologist at Texas State University, said that…

in 1999, a Russian paleontologist named Kirill Yeskov wrote The Last Ringbearer, a version of The Lord of the Rings from the perspective of Sauron. — Read on nowiknow.com/the-tale-of-the-ring-according-to-sauron/

Here’s the million billion trillion dollar question: what is going to matter more in the long run, text or video? Sure, Google would like to dominate everything, but if it had to choose, is it better to dominate video or dominate text? The history of social networking that I documented above suggests that video is,…