What drives this rage for complacency, this desperate contentment?

I'm not thinking the way I used to think.

To think clearly is to be altruistic.

One in four of us have regular paranoid thoughts.

So many things these days are made to look at later. Why not just have the experience and remember it?

She wanted to understand how whole classes of people can get caught up in a shared worldview, to the point that they simply can't see.

Being "always on" is being always off, to something.

The problem is not the ignorance. The problem is the bliss.

In a selfish world, enlightened wisdom may be beyond the capacities of all states. But if there is any hope, it lies in a renewed understanding of the importance of values.

The amphetamine-assisted, physician-abetted social adjustment of yore is back as a mass phenomenon.

A motion picture essay which takes a revealing and shocking look at modern life and its imbalances.

The more we learn, the more capricious and imponderable lightning becomes.

Typography from the 1980s!

Gary Gygax, a pioneer of the imagination who transported a fantasy realm of wizards, goblins and elves onto millions of kitchen tables around the world through the game he helped create, Dungeons & Dragons, died Tuesday at his home in Lake Geneva, Wis. He was 69.

Where do computer files go when you die?

Like a Morricone-style dirge recorded by The Mamas and The Papas, Violent Femmes' cover of Gnarls Barkley's infamous "Crazy" is like nothing you've heard from the legendary alt-rock trio before.

What we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about.

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