So you’re eating lunch? Fascinating
Twitter? Inspirational? No – it’s inspiration’s opposite. The online phenomenon is about humanity disappearing up its own fundament, or the air leaking out of the whole Enlightenment project. In short, I feel about Twitter the way some people feel about nuclear weapons: it’s wrong. It makes blogging look like literature. It’s anti-literature, the new opium of the masses.
Nov 02, 01:04AM PST | 7 cheers | 2 comments
Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
The fact that an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills has thrown the industry into crisis. The stakes could hardly be higher. In today’s economy, the fate of a long-established company can hang on the outcome of a handful of tests.
Why are inert pills suddenly overwhelming promising new drugs and established medicines alike?
Oct 19, 06:21AM PDT | 8 cheers | 0 comments
Unflattering, uncomfy and unaffordable – why do we still love jeans?
All the fashion lies women have been sold over the years, the idea that jeans suit everyone is the cruellest.
Stiff, hipster-cut denim trousers are flattering only to a small minority of women, most of whom are under 30 and under-nourished.
Oct 12, 01:38AM PDT | 6 cheers | 1 comment