As our sensory-material world draws us into its web, being distanced from its sensations and objects feels unsatisfactory. This is because we have identified sensations and activities as the source of our pleasures. In meditation there is an effort to 'be' rather than 'do': a steady dis-identification from the objects of consciousness, including the self, …
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Why do artists and academics earn less than the value of their work?
The money that artists and academics make fall short of the value of their work. Why? Let’s take a case study: music streaming service Spotify does not pay its musicians well. Let’s examine if they could. There are two non-exclusive ways they could pay their musicians more. Either they could maintain their profit and start …
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The Goddamn Particle
All this Hype On the 4th of July there were some fireworks at CERN as they announced they have probably found the elusive Higgs Boson. The CERN website homepage was set to automatically redirect to a cool new facelifted page that announces this: On the top right is a tiny link to the original site. …
The Great White Clouds Today, and Cauliflowers.
It’s awfully bright today. The sun is too bright to look at, and when it falls on your eyes it hurts, but in an amazing happy way. The sunlight is glistening off bright white cumulus clouds, sparkling pure diamond white wherever it falls. You look up, there’s cumulus clouds everywhere like this great migrating herd …
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Vulture
We were asked a simple question in class: ‘what causes tides?’ ‘Class’ here means a mixture of fourth years of an integrated Masters in various sciences, and also some integrated PhD students. All of us were already the equivalent of bachelors. We were blank. A little worse than blank, actually. Some tried to give answers …
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