Cole Tucker recently tweeted a link to an article published at Scientific American, and I thought I’d share it here – with some additional context. Here’s a link and a snip: One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot. When it comes to sex, we put this capacity to very good—or at least, very frequent—use. In a now-classic, pre-Internet-porn (I’ll get to that later on) study by British...

STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on...

An analytic update is overdue. Since the last site-wide upgrade I’ve done some more tinkering, fixed a few blemishes and had several articles get indexed by progressive news feeds....

Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code Hat-tip to Kwitsach Hadera. See also: BEIJING — Google said Tuesday that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country altogether, citing assaults from hackers on its computer systems and China’s attempts to “limit free speech on the Web.” (NY...

Now that I’ve gone from haphazardly posting to providing content daily, it’s helpful to keep an eye on Sophrosyne Radical’s analytics. (more…)

“We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules.” – (TED) ...

“Ideas remain impractical when we have not grasped or been grasped by them. When we do not get an idea, we ask ‘how’ to put it in practice. … But when an insight or idea has sunk in, practice invisibly changes. The idea has opened the eye of the soul. By seeing differently, we do differently. … Ideas are inseparable from practical actions; … there is nothing more practical than forming ideas and...

I enjoyed this so much I thought I’d share: Songs of the Northern Cherokee [direct download, 51.6MB zip]. My great-grandmother’s mother walked the Trail of Tears. Since I married a Canadian, the lineage ends with me – officially, anyway. Maybe – just maybe – this heritage has something to do with my long-standing contempt for...

Temporarily departing from the recent themes of certainty and politics, today I thought I’d invest some time into biographic updates. (more…)

The song *totally* doesn’t apply to my current situation, but I find his alacrity … powerful. Lyrics under the cut. (more…)