t because you believe it is right and just and moral. As T. S. Eliot said, “Ours is in the trying. The rest is not our business.”
All we can ever do is try. Try and do better than the time before. Try and leave the world a better place.
18 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2020
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www.whatsoproudlywehail.org www.whatsoproudlywehail.org
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- Oct 2020
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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A 2019 book
Memes are not my favorite thing. The fact that there is a book about them and that they change social protests and power dynamics is not something I ever expected to read about memes.
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disordered information environment needs to be thought about in the same vein
I would agree with this. Information that is accurate is so important in understanding what is happening. If the knowledge of misinformation is not shared some people might not know to always check sources and to do lateral research.
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problematic phrase “fake news.” Used by politicians around the world to attack a free press, the term is dangerous.
It is unfortunate that the in news these days is so hard to tell the real from the fake. I feel it takes far to long to find any amount of news that is reliable whenever I try and fact check.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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upply chains and stockpiles could one day be made robust enough that everyone has ready access to surgical masks
How many companies would have to start manufacturing mask to spec for this to happen?
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In January, I wrote “We Don’t Have Enough Masks.” We didn’t then, and still don’t now.
The whole point is we don't have enough masks and they have to be fresh and charged to be effective.
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homemade masks is actively discouraged, because they can be contaminated, they encourage touching your face, and they don’t clearly protect people unless they are made well and worn assiduou
This seems unsanitary.
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feather-light, breathable, and electrostatically charged to catch viruses without blocking air.
They are light and comfortable.
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N-95s dig into your face and bruise you. Gas masks are clunky and scare your neighbors
Both of these seem like uncomfortable and impractical options.
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- Sep 2020
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Because of confirmation bias, many people who haven’t been trained answer (e). But the correct answer is (c). The only thing you can hope to do in this situation is disprove the rule, and the only way to do that is to turn over the cards displaying the letter A (the rule i
This was a cool experiment and I was impressed by the results. This is another line of thought that i hope to continue to uses in the future.
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Even after we have measured the lines and found them to be equal, and have had the neurological basis of the illusion explained to us, we still perceive one line to be shorter than the other.
This illusion is one that I have seen before. This makes it much harder for me to view the lines as different lengths. I wonder if this same principle applies to different questions in this article? The one that comes to mind is the would you rather take $150 now or $180 in a month? Once someone was informed that this is a 20% return in a month are they more likely to choose the option that results in more money?
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As you read text on the screen, describing characters and plot, you draw your fingers apart and see a photograph of the protagonist, his eyes opening on the world. Pinch your fingers shut and you visit his troubled unconscious; words and images race by, as if you are inside his memory.
I have always thought that reading a good story game is a lot of fun. Even old Zelda games have great plots if you are looking for things to read and ways to add to the story.
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The digital novel Pry is the opposite of a shallow work; its whole play is between the surface and the depths of the human mind. It is exhilarating.
I would like to try reading an "choose your own path book" digital. I think it would change the dynamic if you were unable to go back and change your options.
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Critics like to say the Internet causes our minds to wander off, but we’ve been wandering off all along.
I love how this is written right below an add for some other random article that has nothing to do with how the quality of readers is declining.
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read aloud.
I think it is ironic that I have a much harder time reading aloud. Clearly both reading and reading aloud need to be practiced in tandem.
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- Aug 2020
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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disqualify jurors who are morally or cognitively incompetent.
Who would decide this? Would such a radical idea lead to more discrimination?
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Jamming the stub of the Greek word for “knowledge” into the Greek word for “rule,” Estlund coined the word “epistocracy,” meaning “government by the knowledgeable
In philosophy right now we are making a lot of connections between the idea of knowledge and morality. Is it the knowledge of morality that inflicts internal consequences and lead to the creation of rules?
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“From each according to his ability to each according to his need
We each can choose how we would like to civically participate. This is something that has been written into the Constitution for our own benefit so we do not forget it is a right and a duty to participate in the workings of our society.
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