Sublime

On the heels of deathcall there’s a great flood, biblical in its scope and timing.

Still more fortuitous, this psychologist, whose name was Bill Richards, probably has more experience guiding psychedelic journeys in the 1960s and 1970s than anyone alive, with the possible exception of Stan Grof (with whom he had once worked). In fact, Bill Richards administered the very last legal dose of psilocybin to an American, at the Marylan

vigil

The small-world networks found everywhere, described in the Watts-Strogatz paper, have an intriguing feature. They are both unusually robust and unusually fragile. They are robust against random attacks or random failures. Which is why random server outages, for example, have little effect on internet traffic. But they are especially vulnerable to

largely on circumstantial evidence, motive might be a persuasive consideration—for either guilt or innocence.

The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story. The hair stands up all over her papery skin. That’s what he has tried to make. That’s why he let the state put him away for two lifetimes and still incriminated no one. He has traded his life for a fable that might light up the minds of st

He’d also found, in himself, a more general interest: in data. What else might it be used to discover? The relevance of that ambition became a bit clearer after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. “There was a sense that this was, among other things, a failure of data analysis,” he said. “If we had known how to distinguish signal from nois

disturbing thought, because nearly every idea Tom Cruise expressed could be found somewhere in the massive writings of L. Ron Hubbard. I discovered this when Cruise had his personal Scientology liaison bring a heavy red book to the table. He opened it to the Scientology code of honor, and we discussed it point by point—set a good example, fulfill y