{"id":639,"date":"2014-05-06T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-05-06T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T20:04:23","slug":"all-the-reading-i-want-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"all the reading i want to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>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&#8217;t imagine taking time for them at the moment.<\/h4>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-folly-of-scientism\" target=\"_blank\">The folly of Scientism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/166600\/how-fund-american-police-state\" target=\"_blank\">How to fund an American Police State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21548488\" target=\"_blank\">Computing with Soup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2012\/03\/a-world-without-people\/100264\/\" target=\"_blank\">A World Without People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2012\/03\/17\/new-full-length-video-questions-no-one-knows-the-answers-to\/\" target=\"_blank\">TED Talk: Questions No One Knows the Answer To<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2012\/04\/5073\/\" target=\"_blank\">Privatizing Marriage is Unjust To Children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2012\/04\/life-without-sex-the-third-phase-of-the-asexuality-movement\/254880\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Life Without Sex: The Third Phase of the Asexuality Movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/a-racetrack-killing-history-organized-crime-hot-springs-arkansas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grantland: Gambling and the Mob in Hot Springs AR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jefftk.com\/p\/peter-singer-and-tyler-cowen-transcript\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Singer and Tyler Cowe transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stephenwolfram.com\/2012\/05\/its-been-10-years-whats-happened-with-a-new-kind-of-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s happened to <em>A New Kind of Science<\/em>?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophersbeard.org\/2011\/04\/does-moral-theory-create-extremism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Does moral theory create extremism?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quotethought.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/24\/the-satan-of-the-gaps-pt-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Satan of the Gaps (Pt. 1)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Does-Religion-Really-Poison\/133457\/?cid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\" target=\"_blank\">Dusting Off GOD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/articles\/journey-into-the-opium-underworld\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugenewei.com\/blog\/2013\/1\/9\/the-most-interesting-company-in-tech-valve\" target=\"_blank\">The most interesting company in tech: Valve<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theschooloflife.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/ten-virtues-for-the-modern-age\/\" target=\"_blank\">TEN VIRTUES FOR THE MODERN AGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cct.biola.edu\/resources\/does-brain-science-disprove-freedom-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Does Brain Science Disprove Freedom?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headlikeanorange.tumblr.com\/post\/43745759022\" target=\"_blank\">Head Like an Orange<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/conversation\/encapsulated-universes\" target=\"_blank\">ENCAPSULATED UNIVERSES<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/edge-and-the-art-collector\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edge and the Art Collector<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/22\/jesus-healed-using-cannabis-study-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus healed using cannabis, study shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/2\/uncertainty\/why-its-good-to-be-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">Why It\u2019s Good To Be Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/velamag.com\/an-unwanted-guest\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Unwanted Guest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/oct\/03\/edward-snowden-files-john-lanchester\" target=\"_blank\"> The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jliszka.github.io\/2013\/10\/01\/how-traffic-actually-works.html\" target=\"_blank\">How traffic actually works<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v35\/n19\/jonathan-ree\/i-tooke-a-bodkine\" target=\"_blank\">I tooke a bodkine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/nature-and-cosmos\/star-axis-is-a-profound-meditation-on-the-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\">Embracing the void<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2013\/11\/what-no-one-tells-you-about-dramatic-weight-loss.html\" target=\"_blank\">What No One Tells You About Losing Lots of Weight (not for the faint of heart)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/01\/four-famous-new-years-resolution-lists-jonathan-swift-susan-sontag-marilyn-monroe-woody-guthrie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Famous Resolution Lists: Jonathan Swift, Susan Sontag, Marilyn Monroe, Woody Guthrie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2013\/11\/healthcare-gov-and-the-gulf-between-planning-and-reality\/?wpisrc=nl_wonk\" target=\"_blank\">Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/special\/reality?cmpid=NLC%7CNSNS%7C2013-1219-GLOBAL&#038;utm_medium=NLC&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">What is reality?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berfrois.com\/2014\/01\/teleology-rises-from-the-grave-stephen-t-asma\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teleology Rises from the Grave<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/9\/time\/life-is-a-braid-in-spacetime\" target=\"_blank\">Life is a Braid in Spacetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/mar\/11\/pronunciation-errors-english-language\" target=\"_blank\">8 pronunciation errors that made the English language what it is today<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/05\/the-volcano-that-rewrote-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Volcano That Rewrote History<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>OK, that just about sums it up.<\/h4>\n<p>Sorry some of the full articles are behind a paywall. At least there&#8217;s a sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/?p=639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">all the reading i want to do<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olena.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}