Tiny, Vast Windows Into Human DNA – NYTimes.com
Any day now an idea will become commonplace. The sorting out we have been doing, yielding notions of objects, creatures, species and other realizations, will be seen as imaginary constructions, reifications, gestalts... . We will revisit discoveries such as the one following and wonder why we were so childish.
BBC News – Ukraine crisis: ‘Russia has launched a great war’
BBC News - Ukraine crisis: 'Russia has launched a great war'.
BBC News – Ukraine crisis: Government setbacks in Luhansk and Donetsk
BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Government setbacks in Luhansk and Donetsk.
Wages and Salaries Still Lag as Corporate Profits Surge – NYTimes.com
A simple repair to many of the difficulties described in this article involves organizing consumers into bargaining units. This could be done out of an expanded labour union movement, as an adjunct to liberal/socialist policies, or by consumers themselves, perhaps by putting smart-phones and internet databases to good use.
Wages and Salaries Still Lag as Corporate Profits Surge - NYTimes.com.
When Did We Get So Old? – NYTimes.com
Not to make too much of this but the idea of getting old assumes an ontological stance I think can be disputed.
The claim is that one was young once, indeed that one was born as a new entity, an entity now making a more or less prolonged exit.
What if this is not what is going on? What if we never come into existence the way we think? What if our apparent existence is really the manifestation of exquisitely synergistic events that coalesce for a time then subside as their significance shades into other manifestations?
Using Gambling to Entice Low-Income Families to Save – NYTimes.com
I find this interesting because it demonstrates two things.
The article implicitly describes the unbidden, unconscious nature of what human beings get up to, i.e., that it is behaviour and not conduct.
The second is that it describes a way of mitigating human behaviour by adroitly placed countervails. Our interest in gambling (a tragically-flawed economic strategy) is harnessed to saving money (an economic strategy that works) by generating lottery tickets whenever certain sums are saved.
Using Gambling to Entice Low-Income Families to Save - NYTimes.com.