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• [article] Varela's Gestures — 10 Apr 2021
  Neuroscientist Francisco Varela’s “gestures” of awareness—suspension, redirection, and letting go—are an incredibly simple guide to understanding the connection between the brain and the phenomenon of insight, both those mundane and profound.
• [article] The Millennium Myth — 22 Mar 2021
  Year 2000 predictions once foretold catastrophe, but now we laugh at those predictions. The same is true of many historical cycles and years with big, round numbers. They become significant simply because we collectively believe in their importance.
• [article] From Zero — 13 Mar 2021
  Hydraulic despotism is the idea the critical resources are used to control populaces. Once, water. Now tech. To counter this, we should learn to recreate more basic systems from scratch, fostering self-reliance and innovation.
• [marginalium] On McMaster’s New Memoir — 10 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] On the decline of global democracy since the misleading ‘boom’ following the Cold War — 10 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] Anthropological Case Study for the Lockdown as a ‘Spiritual and Economic Reset’ — 10 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] The ‘marshmallow test’ has consistently failed the replication challenge — 7 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] This blog, called ‘Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science’ has a ‘Zombies’ category, and it’s great — 7 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] Rulers are more poweful when there is a balance between ruled and elite — 6 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] Surge Protection — 5 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] A frank exploration of the ways PR failed us during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic — 5 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] On the origins of the philosophy of cynicism — 5 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] Re-evaluating Income and Happiness Beyond $75,000 — 5 Mar 2021
• [marginalium] Vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19 is a portfolio of motivations — 1 Mar 2021
• [article] Server 102: Access Everywhere — 27 Feb 2021
  A simple that allows us to access our files and stream media from our PC, our phone, and wherever else we might want them. No one owns them but us. If anything goes wrong, it can be replaced easily. And most importantly, we’ll have control over our digital self in a way that it deserves.