0 As always, there's a lot more stuff that I enjoyed reading this month on Reading Feed. Do check it out! 1 Leah Libresco is the single person who I believe has the best practical ideas about how to be a human being in this world. (This video
previously: Three Modest Proposals, Instead of Divesting… Aaronson: I’m sensitive to the charge that divestment petitions are just meaningless sanctimony, a way for activists to feel morally pure without either making serious sacrifices or engaging the real complexities of an issue. In the end, though, that kind of meta-level
...and now for some musings about exploration that doesn't involve wanton destruction, murder, theft, &c. (1) But as soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking. Who would once have thought that the crossing of the wide
I've got an op-ed in the Harvard Crimson today, expressing my concern that an important narrative is missing from the discussions of the AAU sexual assault climate survey. Excerpt: When male survivors are invisible, they face stigma against seeking help. Though male and female survivors of sexual assault
You're a lieutenant colonel in a secure bunker buried in a secret location in the USSR. You are the night shift commander of the Soviet missile defense system. It's September 1983, so your government's stated policy is "launch on warning". You have