Words of Wisdom — December 17, 2013

William Safire on the Media

"Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media."- William Safire (born on this date in 1929)

“Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.”
– William Safire (born on this date in 1929)

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with “an unnatural ghastly glow”? One inventor thought you would.

It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.

A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.

“Groupthink” gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.

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