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I prompt, therefore I am (opens the original)
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There are few thinkers I love more than Descartes. In 1637, he decided that he was going to doubt everything. He reasoned that he could not trust his senses because his senses had deceived him before; he further could not be certain that the physical world existed because dreams could feel indistinguishable from waking life; he also could not even be certain that his own body existed. Perhaps, he suggested, some malicious demon was constructing an elaborate simulation around him, feeding him exp
On being a woman who wants power (opens the original)
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We have come to terms with the ambitious woman. She is ubiquitous and largely synonymous with the post-yuppie corporate landscape, though ambition can be found as much in the domestic sphere as the commercial. We don’t, however, like the powerful woman. She is to be avoided, mocked, detested even.<div class="ima
a brief history of time (opens the original)
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I flew from San Francisco to London, then to New York, then back to London, and am now back in San Francisco. Eight hours, then five, then five, then eight: twenty-six changes of local timezone in a relatively short period, although it is not quite right to say that I have gained or lost twenty-six hours. I have, in the arithmetic of clocks, returned to where I began. Unfortunately, as any traveller will be familiar, my body has not received the same information that, in modular terms, nothing h
The Library Did Not Burn (opens the original)
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The Library of Alexandria is popularly supposed to have burned. The supposition persists, in part, because a fire supplies the catastrophe with a date and a culprit, and implies that knowledge perishes only when somebody destroys it. The scholarship unfortunately points to a duller conclusion. Papyrus decays in the Mediterranean climate unless scribes continually recopy it; recopying requires money and trained labor; and over several centuries the administrators who controlled both found, year a
the tyranny of the measurable (opens the original)
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When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. The line is credited to Charles Goodhart, a Bank of England economist writing in 1975 about monetary policy, though the version everyone quotes was actually Marilyn Strathern’s, an anthropologist compressing him two decades later; and the fact that a law about central banking needed an anthropologist to finish it should tell you something about where it was always headed. Goodhart had noticed a narrow thing: whenever the Bank picke
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