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3 Quarks Daily - 5 new articles Two new books explore how psychedelics can change your lifeCharlotte Shane at Bookforum:
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 Bullshit Jobs and the myth of capitalist efficiencyElaine Glaser at The Guardian:
 Time to abandon grand ethical theories?Julian Baggini in the Times Literary Supplement:
 NASA’s EM-drive is a magnetic WTF-thrusterChris Lee in Ars Technica:
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TAO LIN’S EIGHTH BOOK, Trip, is his best yet, and it’s all thanks to drugs. Well, perhaps not entirely thanks to drugs. With exercise comes mastery, or at least competence, and Lin has been practicing his idiosyncratic craft for over a decade. His first book...
Humans have long trapped animals in cages, nets and snares, but the tangled webs of vanity, curiosity, cruelty and fear we cast over other creatures may be even more perilous. We see our virtues and vices reflected in animals — hardworking beavers, indolent sloths,...
As well as documenting personal misery, this book is a portrait of a society that has forgotten what it is for. Our economies have become “vast engines for producing nonsense”. Utopian ideals have been abandoned on all sides, replaced by praise for...
Ethics today is in a curious state. There is no shortage of people telling us that Western civilization is facing a moral crisis, that the old foundation of Christianity has been removed but nothing has been put in its place. Christian writers...
It was bound to happen eventually. A group of researchers that may actually be competent and well-funded is investigating 