Tag: New York University

• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn

  I’m getting old now and although I don’t regret the slow accumulation of the lately-wilting years, I’ve noticed that a lot of people do -or at least say they do. I’m not sure how well they’ve thought it through, however; even if they somehow managed to continue their lives in a candy shop, they’d soon […]

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  May 11, 2022

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  Aeon.co, Age, Bernard Williams, categorical desires, contingent desires, human self, immortality, King’s College London, New York University, Paul Sagar, Samuel Scheffler, trees

• The time is out of joint

  It came as a great shock, of course -Youth  does not easily admit defeat: it lives as if there is always a tomorrow, will always be a tomorrow. The sun will rise after any darkness; day will always follow night. Youth is immortal, although perhaps it is that death is further away than they can […]

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  July 2, 2019

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  Aeon.co, Bernard Williams, brain tumour, categorical vs contingent desires, Death, Groundhog Day, immortality, King’s College London, lifespan, listening, Miguel de Unamuno, New York University, Paul Sagar, Samuel Scheffler

• The Feminist Egg

  Once upon a time, I suppose that one of the characteristics of Age was its hubris. After a certain age, it was easy to dismiss most new things as mere variations on time-tested themes –additions, clever perhaps, intriguing even, but still accretions. Ecclesiastes lived in old minds: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall […]

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  May 9, 2018

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  Age, androcentrism, cryptic female choice, Darwin, Ecclesiastes, eggs, Emily Martin, evolution, female, gender divide, Hamlet, Kahlil Gibran, Life, Mendel, new things, New York University, Quanta Magazine, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Truth, William Eberhard

• What’s Past is Prologue

  Sometimes it’s hard to get things right; sometimes it’s hard to get things even sort of right. We pride ourselves on foresight, on our ability to anticipate the future results of our decisions, but it’s often more hubris than skill. Unintended consequences have a way of interpolating themselves like bushes in a forest while we, […]

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  February 7, 2018

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  BBC news, Bella DePaulo, cane toads, domestic problems, employees, employers, Eric Klinenberg, Jonas Almeling, medical secretary, New York University, obstetric office, parents, singles, unintended consequences, University of California