Diffcult things that make me ponder

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946. October 17, 1946 D’Arline, I adore you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to... See more

Tyranny is like a disease—when you ignore it, it spreads beyond borders. Dictators form alliances, learn from one another, and threaten global peace. Repression grows to war. But courage is also contagious. Freedom wins when democracies unite—and act before it’s too late.... See more

The opinion is significant, legal experts said, because it appears to justify an open-ended war against a secret list of groups, giving the president power to designate drug traffickers as enemy combatants and have them summarily killed without legal review. Historically, those involved in drug trafficking were considered criminals with due process... See more

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.

one of the crises of democracy stems from the fact that, here too, we have created systems that have become more sophisticated over time, but which have become too slow or too incomplete to respond to the challenges of the times

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to [American and Chinese] social networks, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.

Pentagon leaders are considering using chapters of Kirk’s political organization, Turning Point USA, at schools across the U.S. as military recruitment centers

shallow waters, where snapping shrimp crackle like underwater firecrackers, are beginning to sound different. A study published in 2022 found that shrimp, one of the ocean’s most active noisemakers, snapped more frequently and with more force as water temperatures increased.