Hitchens’ Nightclub Surveillance Examined Bully Microbes
Inside The Bizarre World Of Reality TV Nightclub Appearances by Matt Harvey (Gawker): How have we come to a place where Kim Kardashian gets paid US$50,000 for appearing at a nightclub for 2 hours? (Nightclub owners say it’s the economics of it) [via]
The Examined Life, Age 8 by Abby Goodnough (New York Times): On the efforts to teach second-graders about philosophy, using children’s books as a starting point - the developmental psychologist Piaget argued that abstract reasoning wasn’t in evidence until age 12.
How Not To Raise A Bully: The Early Roots Of Empathy by Maia Szalavitz (Time): Kids can’t understand the feelings of others until they understand their own feelings; the bully does not understand his/her own feelings. [via]
Christopher Hitchens Re-Reads Animal Farm by Christopher Hitchens (The Guardian): Hitchens’ take on Orwell’s Animal Farm, and its history (it only gained popularity because exiles from the Communists discovered it and demanded it be translated into their own language) is more equal than the others. [via]
Can You Disappear In Surveillance Britain? by Jean-Paul Flintoff (TimesOnline): Creepy story about just how much information is available about you in the UK and how easy it is for hostile people to access it; oh, and about a guy on the run from the private detectives tailing him. [via]
Mat Of Microbes The Size Of Greece Discovered On Sea Floor by Katherine Harmon (Scientific American): The sea is weird, and the article is well-summarised by title.
