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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Campus Life at the
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The veneration of physical beauty, the Instagramization of culture, is pagan to its roots. The overwhelming cascade of drugs, surgeries, and procedures intended to enhance one’s physical appearance—all precursors to “designer babies”—is a tribute to the externalization of our values.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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Facebook expanded to the
United Kingdom on this day in 2005
Facebook expanded to the United Kingdom on this day – March 10 – in 2005.
The University of Surrey, the University og Cambridge and the University of Oxford were the first three British schools to gain access to Facebook.
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Rarely do good surprises occur between adversarial nations. Communicating more, rather than less, is far safer.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
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The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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No one disputes that Bannon is very smart. He sweeps in information quickly, has a file-cabinet memory, can keep multiple tabs open in his brain. It’s how he uses his brain that horrifies people—and I’m talking not just about Democrats, but about many of his former colleagues, who see in him a disordered, nefarious kind of brilliance.
~ Jennifer Senior via The Atlantic
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Mickey Spillane was born
on this day in 1918
Frank Morrison Spillane — the American crime novelist who wrote pulp fiction under byline Mickey Spillane — was born on this day — March 9, 1918 — in Brooklyn, New York.
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The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.
~ John Steinbeck
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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