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Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee? The Stoics and Existentialists agree on the answer
When every day many of us wake up to read about fresh horrors on our fresh horrors device, we might find ourselves contemplating the question as to whether, as Albert Camus supposedly put it, one should kill oneself or have a cup of coffee. If there is any philosopher who is famous for contemplating suicide, it’s Camus who, in a more serious tone, proposed that, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
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Value Of Titan As Base For Humans In Saturn System - Surprisingly - Once There - Easier For...
Titan might seem an unlikely place to for humans to build settlements, and maybe eventually colonize. After all, it is so far from the sun, and extraordinarily cold, and it's a long journey to get there (at present). But actually, if you set aside the difficulty of getting there, which we should overcome as our technology improves - it's got more going for it than you might think. This is an idea originally developed in some detail by Charles Wohlforth and Amanda Hendrix, authors of Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets...
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Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against. And science has their back.
Some people have a biological clock naturally set to a later time.
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Picking a screen wallpaper to minimize eye strain
Whether it's your phone's wallpaper or your desktop computer's background, the good news is that your screen image can be used to minimize eye strain.
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Memcached DDoS: The biggest, baddest denial of service attacker yet
Distributed denial of service attacks just got turned up to 11 with Memcrashed, an internet assault that can slam a website with over a terabyte of bad traffic.
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Low-fat vs low-carb? Major study concludes: it doesn’t matter for weight loss
A year-long randomized clinical trial has found that a low-fat diet and a low-carb diet produced similar weight loss and improvements in metabolic health markers. Furthermore, insulin production and tested genes had no impact on predicting weight loss success or failure. Thus, you should choose your diet based on personal preferences, health goals, and sustainability.
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How to Design Beacons for Humanity’s Afterlife
A time capsule meant to teach aliens about humans could consist of math, DNA, a bot, or a brain—or something else entirely. By Stephen Wolfram.
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How To Dramatically Improve Your Life In 30 Minutes A Day
A Simple Approach To Better Life
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Vlad the Impaler
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Against the Technocrats
Pundits fretting about a “tyranny of the majority” would do well to remember that democracy has always been a precondition of liberalism—not the other way around. By Sheri Berman.
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Social media is giving us trypophobia
We aren't so much seeing through a lens darkly when we log onto Facebook or peer at personalized search results on Google, we’re being individually strapped into a custom-moulded headset that’s continuously screening a bespoke movie — in the dark, in a single-seater theatre, without any windows or doors. Are you feeling claustrophobic yet?
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Does America have a caste system?
An Indian scholar makes the case that caste explains inequality in America better than race and class. By Subramanian Shankar.
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Why is pop culture obsessed with battles between good and evil?
Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and evil. Traditional folktales never were. What changed? By Catherine Nichols.
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Family Paid $250 for "Professional Photoshoot" and This Is What They Got
A Missouri family recently got a taste of internet stardom after sharing a series of hilariously bad “professional photograph” that they had paid just under $250 for.
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Tobacco, oil, and arms – where Imperial is investing its money
An analysis of Imperial College London’s endowment fund has revealed significant direct and indirect investments in the tobacco, fossil fuel, weapons, …
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The Fascinating History of Ten Letters That Are No Longer Part of the American English Alphabet
YouTuber Austin McConnell, a man who knows words, humorously explained through animation the fascinating history of ten different letters that are no longe
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Motivation Is for Suckers
As ultra-endurance athlete and self-improvement guru Rich Roll says, "Mood follows action." In other words: Don't think. Do.
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Andrew Sullivan: It’s Time to Resist the Excesses of #MeToo
Honor complexity. Make meaningful distinctions between offenses. Defend due process, privacy, and sex itself. A month or so ago, a friend and I mulled over when exactly the backlash to the then-peaking #MeToo moral panic would set in. Mid-January, we guessed, and sure enough here we are.
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It's Scientifically Possible to Boil Water Until It Freezes Solid
If you feel like having one of your fundamental beliefs thrown out the window, try this on for size - under the right conditions, you can boil water until it freezes solid.
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The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed
A new breed of online retailer doesn’t make or even touch products, but they’ve got a few other tricks for turning nothing into money.
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The “Spell” of Procrastination: Specious Barriers and How to Conquer Them
Humans are masters of self-deception. We constantly search for excuses to explain why we would (but don’t) contribute to charity, talk to the girl we like or make beautiful music. “If things were a bit better,” we say, shaking our heads, “all of my dreams would come true.”
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427 Year Old Style Spring Mouse Trap In Action. 4 Mice in 1 Night.
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Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach
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Camus, Suicide, and Imagining Sisyphus Happy
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. To examine Camus’ central ideas and views surely one must get back to one of his best works, The Myth of Sisyphus.
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The Pessimist’s Guide to 2018
These eight potential shocks could shape the next decade.
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Russiagate Is Making Everyone Stupid
The Guardian recently published an amazingly deceitful hit piece on skeptics of the establishment Syria narrative who point to the piles of evidence that the so-called White Helmets are nothing other than a western-backed propaganda firm for the destabilization efforts in Syria. By Caitlin Johnstone.
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Republican Attacks on Robert Mueller Are Absurd. But the GOP Has Been Lawless for Decades.
From Vietnam to Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Clinton impeachment, the Republican Party has proved itself an awesome force of lawlessness.
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Diet rich in apples, tomatoes may help repair lungs of ex-smokers, study suggests
The natural decline in lung function over a 10-year period was slower among former smokers with a diet high in tomatoes and fruits, especially apples, according to a study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, suggesting certain components in these foods might help restore lung damage caused by smoking.
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An old drug for alcoholism finds new life as cancer treatment
By age 38, the patient’s breast cancer had spread to her bones, a typically fatal turn of events. She became an alcoholic, and her doctors stopped all cancer treatment, instead giving her a drug to discourage her drinking. She died 10 years later, after an inebriated fall from a window. But an autopsy revealed something unexpected: Her bone tumors had melted away, leaving only a few cancer cells in her marrow.
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Increasingly a Necessity: A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism
Rule #1: Always think critically and fight ignorance with facts. By Kali Holloway and Martin Mycielski.
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