Letters Remain

Category: interesting

  • How Our Bodies Age

    The Washing ton Post has an interesting infographic on How Our Bodies Age (And What You Can Do About It). Aging is the natural wear and tear of the body’s component parts. It’s inevitable, and endlessly intriguing. While many age-related changes cannot be prevented, a lifestyle that includes exercise and a well-balanced diet will slow…

  • Mamihlapinatapai

    This “most succinct word” is classed as one of the most difficult to translate. It’s definition is beautiful and painful… I can’t count the time I’ve experienced this. A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could…

  • Ayn Rand in Playboy (Interview)

    Playboy‘s 1964 Ayn Rand interview in full; a deep and prophetic discussion. PLAYBOY: Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life? RAND: Qua religion, no — in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and the conclusions of reason. Faith,…

  • What’s Your Sign Name?

    BBC Ouch! on the strange gift of sign language names. When a sign name is given to you, it’s special. A bit like losing your deaf virginity. It’s thought up after an intense period of observation, when people have worked out firstly whether they like you enough to give you one (a sign name, that…

  • Male and Female Privilege

    Following on from yesterday’s post on white privilege, here are two further lists on male and female privilege: The Male Privilege Checklist I will never be expected to change my name upon marriage or questioned if I don’t change my name. If I have children but do not provide primary care for them, my masculinity…

  • Legal Cases That Changed Britain

    The Times has now concluded its series on The (Legal) Cases That Changed Britain: 1785 – 2006. DPP v Ray July 27, 1973 This case settled an important principle of law applicable to people caught legging it out of restaurants without paying. It has been applied countless times since. After eating a meal in the…

  • Men’s Style

    Omiru focuses on “real style for real people”. Coming in 46th place on Times’ 50 Best Websites of 2008, for people like me (the perpetually unfashionable) the Men’s section of Omiru is a Godsend. I know that it’s not entirely possible to have a 10-item-only wardrobe, but what 10 items do you think could make…

  • Times’ 50 Best Websites of 2008

    Time has just released the results of its 50 ‘best’ websites of 2008 vote. Present are many you would expect, but there are a few surprising entries too. The top 5: Penny Arcade Gaia Online Kongregate GasBuddy Free Rice via Mind Hacks

  • 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll (100 Most Important Living Intellectuals )

    The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals […] compiled in November 2005 by Prospect Magazine and Foreign Policy on the basis of a reader’s ballot. Top five: Noam Chomsky Umberto Eco Richard Dawkins Václav Havel Christopher Hitchens Foreign Policy requires (free) registration to access the list.…

  • The Long Now Foundation

    Established in 01996 […] The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking. A very admirable goal and one I’m inclined to embrace wholeheartedly. You may have heard of one of their projects, Long Bets. The current featured bet was placed by Warren Buffett with a $1,000,000…