Sublime

“As We May Think,” published in the Atlantic Monthly

Faraday’s experiments, simple and elegant, were carefully recorded in lab books that he bound himself, remembering the profession he had so happily left. In modern language, we would say he was a great chemist and a great physicist; Faraday described himself as a natural philosopher. With an uncanny gift for recognizing the salient points of an exp

In each case, a brilliant man put his company in jeopardy because measuring himself and his legacy outweighed everything else.

this thought experiment suggests that we don’t cheat and steal as much as we would if we were perfectly rational and acted only in our own self-interest.

Vince also said that PKD claimed Anne was planning to break into his office and steal his financial records. He not only thought that Anne had ‘murdered’ her ex-husband, but that his good friend Ray Nelson was planning to kill his wife, Kirsten. Grania became very concerned about his ‘self destructive moods’, fearing that PKD might turn the gun on

In 1975, the Rockefeller Commission investigating the CIA disclosed that the agency had also been running LSD experiments in Maryland, at Fort Detrick, as part of a mind-control project called MK-Ultra. (An internal memo the commission released concisely set forth the agency’s objective: “Can we get control of an individual to the point where he wi