a letter from joe matt Here’s where’s I’m compelled to impart what I consider an important life lesson– If you’re lost, career-wise, and haven’t a clue what to do wit your life–I think it’s crucial to metaphorically “sit perfectly still and do absolutely nothing” for as long as possible. Jobs, friends–just about anything could be […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
Education
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Dear Student Milgram was ultimately denied tenure because the ethics of his experiment were rightfully questioned. Still, Milgram’s experiment has been continually re-created. Perhaps, what is most telling is not Milgram’s results, but the fact that the experiment continues to be repeated and debated and supported and refuted. When faced with an oppressive authority figure, […]
Chilling (and not like a deli product)
Thursday, June 29, 2023
The Parable of the Turkey “How lucky we are,”
peak oil
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Collapse might be interesting to write about, if only everyone else wasn’t doing it. Hubbert’s Peak is Finally Here From here on out, just six counties in West Texas must meet all global demand growth. […] Using our neural network, we have updated our basin analysis, and the results are shocking. [This area] is likely […]
Road math
Monday, April 25, 2022
The Fourth Power Rule What these researchers found is that damage to the roadbed is proportional to the 4th power of the axle load of the vehicle, and they called this “the Generalized Fourth Power Law.” This means that if you double the weight on an axle, your vehicle does sixteen times the damage to […]
Water
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio [SoundCloud])
Freud and the plague
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Death Drive Nation But distresses to Freud’s metabolisms, psychic and digestive, aside, one wonders if he might not have found in the US a case study in what would prove to be his most controversial idea, an idea which would also resolve his confusion over why Americans might actually be pretty copacetic, even welcoming, towards […]
Raymond Zack
Saturday, November 20, 2021
“He uh… had the ability to make a bad decision and did.” “Yeahh-uh.” via Lefty Book Club Commentary with some more perspectives
