all the reading i want to do

For a number of years, in the rush of the tides of my life, I stumbled across stories I would like to read but couldn’t imagine taking time for them at the moment.

So now I have this collection and in an effort to actually read these pieces, I place them here on my blog, earliest to latest. Unfortunately, some articles have disappeared. Here are the remainders. Some of these I have read in full, but left them because they were so good. I left them so I would read them again. So, for your perusal, my unread articles.

The folly of Scientism

How to fund an American Police State

Computing with Soup

A World Without People

TED Talk: Questions No One Knows the Answer To

Privatizing Marriage is Unjust To Children

Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement

Grantland: Gambling and the Mob in Hot Springs AR

Peter Singer and Tyler Cowe transcript

What’s happened to A New Kind of Science?

Does moral theory create extremism?

The Satan of the Gaps (Pt. 1)

Dusting Off GOD

How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict

The most interesting company in tech: Valve

TEN VIRTUES FOR THE MODERN AGE

Does Brain Science Disprove Freedom?

Head Like an Orange

ENCAPSULATED UNIVERSES

Edge and the Art Collector

Jesus healed using cannabis, study shows

Why It’s Good To Be Wrong

An Unwanted Guest

The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ

How traffic actually works

I tooke a bodkine

Embracing the void

What No One Tells You About Losing Lots of Weight (not for the faint of heart)

Famous Resolution Lists: Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie

Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality

What is reality?

Teleology Rises from the Grave

Life is a Braid in Spacetime

8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today

The Volcano That Rewrote History

OK, that just about sums it up.

Sorry some of the full articles are behind a paywall. At least there’s a sample.