The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse – The Marginalian
You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off to cause harm and havoc […]
An end to fully open networks
If you have a phone, you can call anyone you like. The recipient doesn’t have to answer, but the network is an open API, available […]
Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – The Marginalian
“Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion,” the great painter Richard Diebenkorn counseled […]
Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity – The Marginalian
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a […]
Apophenia cuts both ways | Seth’s Blog
Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or unrelated data, events, or objects. Humans are story telling machines. […]
How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith – The Marginalian
Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, […]
Henri Bergson on How to See Reality – The Marginalian
In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 […]
Fit and Finish | Seth’s Blog
Snap, crackle and pop. A set of German-made socket wrenches can turn a bolt in a similar way to a cheaper alternative, but it feels […]
A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins – The Marginalian
Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted remains of boxy car. A […]
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness – The Marginalian
It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually, surreptitiously, the noise swells to a […]
