February 2012
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Darwinian Interlude
Yesterday I ordered a DNA testing kit through a company called 23andme. In six weeks I’ll get a report with information about my genetic ancestry as well potential health risks and inheritable conditions.
Why, you ask? Many smart people are predicting that this century’s scientific and technological advances will be in biogenetics and I want to get a head start. Besides, as my mother...
“Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” Nemeth says. “It wakes us right up.” Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
“But the Infantile part of me is insatiable - in fact its whole essence or dasein or whatever lies in its a priori insatiability. In response to any environment of extraordinary gratification and pampering, the Insatiable Infant part of me will simply adjust its desires upward until it once again levels out at its homeostasis of terrible dissatisfaction.”
- David Foster Wallace in A...
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“In the end its laziness and magic that makes you use a service”
– via Fiahless
