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I’m Still Here: Back Online After A Year Without The Internet | The Verge
A year offline expands attention span
As my head uncluttered, my attention span expanded. In my first month or two, 10 pages of The Odyssey was a slog. Now I can read 100 pages in a sitting, or, if the prose is easy and I'm really enthralled, a few hundred. I learned to appreciate an idea that can't be summed up in…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
The famous indian head wiggle
No discovery pleased me more, on that first excursion from the city, than the full translation of the famous Indian head-wiggle. The weeks I’d spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side—that most characteristic of…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
All knowledge of the world is self-knowledge
Our whole knowledge of the world is, in one sense, self-knowledge. For knowing is a translation of external events into bodily processes, and especially into states of the nervous system and the brain: we know the world in terms of the body, and in accordance with its…
The head-tailed cat
Here is someone who has never seen a cat. He is looking through a narrow slit in a fence, and, on the other side, a cat walks by. He sees first the head, then the less distinctly shaped furry trunk, and then the tail. Extraordinary! The cat turns round and walks back, and again…
Is birth the cause of death?
Moreover, as the egg/chicken relation suggests, not all the features of a total situation have to appear at the same time. The existence of a man implies parents, even though they may be long since dead, and the birth of an organism implies its death. Wouldn’t it be as…
The only true atom is the universe
“Individual” is the Latin form of the Greek “atom”—that which cannot be cut or divided any further into separate parts. We cannot chop off a person’s head or remove his heart without killing him. But we can kill him just as effectively by separating him from his proper…
Tourism Is Just Another Form Of Narcissism | Vice United Kingdom
Traveling
Like the dude on safari who doesn’t lift his head from the lens, many of us have started holidaying to accumulate – stories, photos and experiences – rather than just letting the unfamiliar wash over us, and revelling in the surprise of unexpected things. We have become a…