Meteuphoric

I read Matt Ridley's 'The origins of virtue' just now. It was full of engaging anecdotes and irrelevant details, which I don...

Eliezer Yudkowsky of OB suggests thinking and doing entirely new things for a day:  Don't read any book you've read before.  Don...

The most outstanding feature of organ markets is that most people hate the idea. This is a curiosity deserving a second glance. There are or...

Desperation is coercive, or so it is said. The analogy between having a gun to your head and starvation at your door is a good one, as far a...

Wondering your opinion, not particularly trying to change it: 1. How likely is our avoiding dangerous climate change by getting enough inter...

People often object to human life having a value placed on it, explicitly or implicitly. (I'm told there are good reasons, apparently to...

Some of my friends think that a random process of deciding who should live or die is more important than the lives of those people, because ...