Selected Passages from Huxley’s Brave New World

If you want to think, read Brave New World. Here are a few excerpts that I found particularly compelling. On friendship “One of the more principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. p. 179 …

100 Things to Enjoy, 2001

100 Things to Enjoy side view 100 Things to Enjoy top view 100 THings to Enjoy page veiw 100 Things to Enjoy Book Cover 1. Watching a 3am football game at Cornell in the snow and seeing people act like kids again. 2. Hugging Jennifer, putting my nose in her hair and smelling strawberries. 3. …

I got a space pen today,…

[kml_flashembed movie=”../../flash/space_pen.swf” height=”930″ width=”500″ /] I got a Space Pen today, it is amazing. I highly recommend the bullet model shown above. It’s small enough to fit in a pocket, and it’s great to use for reading and annotating books while inverted in space…Or if you are laying on the couch.listen Powered by Jott

Carl Sagan Lectures Published

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A personal view of the Search for God There was some excerpts published in the Cornell University Alumni Magazine that I found particularly poignant. In regard to the growth of huge empires out of hunter gatherer groups…I think we’re getting really close especially with the ideas of social networking sites …