February 2012
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Lewis Thomas on the etymology of "love" and...
Sanskrit dictionaries list several words for loving, arranged in order of both intensity and degree of attachment. Snehah meant fondness, anurahah implied devotion, while manmathah was reserved for passionate and presumably sexual commitment. Priyate simply meant to love someone, and priya was the word for dearest, beloved. The words are etymologically distinct from one another, but linked...
Feb 29th
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Feb 27th
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Listen Arthur Schopenhauer. Born 22 February 1788. ...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 5th
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Me Tarzan: cyberspace & the doer/viewer duality of...
I’ve been tweeting long enough (3 years) to know that there is no necessary correlation between the interest generated by a post (in terms of retweets, likes or comments) and the interestingness of that post. Interests are subjective, vague, ever-shifting and, aside from that, it’s easy to miss stuff in our fast-flowing cyber streams. Nevertheless, something I excerpted from and...
Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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