This morning I ran across “The Idle Manifesto,” written by a British organization called the Idle Foundation. [T]he Idle Foundation wants to encourage a world where people engage
One thing I recently got interested in is coffee consumption around the world. In most of the world, growing coffee consumption can serve as a way of measuring
On our last day in London, my wife and I wandered past, and of course in, a travel bookstore near Covent Garden called Stanfords. Actually not Stanfords, but
One of the cleverer features on The Guardian right now is a series called “the autocomplete questions,” in which authors take on questions that are popular on Google.
Nietzsche, writing in 1882: “Soon we may well reach the point where people can no longer give in to the desire for a vita contemplativa (that is, taking
I’ve been thinking some about how to work some of the argument and insights of Rest into infographics; fortunately it won’t be difficult, though since I’m not artist
The Guardian's Anonymous Academic pleads with the universe (or at least deans) to "give us back our summers:" time is not the same as pounds and pence. If I
The Guardian's Oliver Burkeman notes that a recent Symantec report estimates that less than half of email sent is now spam-- hooray!-- but sees a downside: As “classic”
The Guardian's Oliver Burkeman notes that a recent Symantec report estimates that less than half of email sent is now spam-- hooray!-- but sees a downside: As “classic”
When I was in London last month, I took a morning and went down to Goldsmiths University. I went down there to interview Will Davies, a sociology professor