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“It would have been as easy to count or to estimate the number of leaves in a forest as to calculate the number of buffaloes living at any given time during the history of the species previous to 1870,” William Hornaday, who served as the chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian and later as director of the Bronx Zoo, wrote. By 1889, Hornaday reckoned,
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I’m thinking to start a practice where I just write out responses to what I read on Substack in my logs. There’s no pressure to comment, or share, or advertise it or whatever. It’s just a semi-public, mostly unnoticed thought process to remember what I read and what I think when I read it. Maybe some of it pushes to Notes too… idk, well see.
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As much as academics want to think they are liberal and open-minded, their tyranny of objectivity is ruthless.
Jamyang Khyentse • The Guru Drinks Bourbon?
