khan on regulation
A glossy 15 minute survey:
buck wild
dfw on travel
"My personal experience has not been that traveling around the country is broadening or relaxing, or that radical changes in place and context have a salutary effect, but rather that intranational tourism is radically constricting, and humbling in the hardest way--hostile to my fantasy of being a true individual, of living somehow outside and above it all." --David Foster Wallace
personality
"I have a Masters in history, a Masters in anthropology, and a PhD in education."
"What would you say has been your greatest accomplishment?"
"My personality."
From Humans of New York
joe szabo
From his website:
"Joe Szabo is a teacher, photographer, and author who began his photographic studies at Pratt Institute where he received an MFA degree in 1968. He taught photography at Malverne High School in Long Island from 1972-1999 and at the International Center of Photography in New York since 1978. He has been photographing his teen-age students for the past twenty-five years."
dreamdecay
Merry Christmas!
cooties
Here is a great article about some Murray Bookchin-inspired rebels fighting ISIL in Syria. Also apparently ISIL believes that if they're killed by a kurdish woman they won't get into heaven? AKA cooties.
biel carpenter
Two from Biel Carpenter.
sick
“Sick of it whatever it's called, sick of the names.
I dedicate every pore to what's here”
― Ikkyu
cho cho cola
More from Jessee Rose
sewerluv
from this person
neuroplasticity article
Here's a basic rundown of the history (and fanaticism) of neuroplasticity. Turns out our brains are neither hardwired at birth nor able to make us fly by thinking. Who knew!?