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From Here
In 1881, Mark Twain described Montreal as a city “where you couldn’t throw a brick without breaking a church window.” Today, we might describe Montreal as a city where you can’t throw a brick without hitting something beautiful. Seriously, you can’t even walk to the pharmacy, on a warm June night, to pick up some garbage bags, without being left speechless again and again and again. The beauty of this great city isn’t the natural, and thus accidental, beauty of BC or Banff; it’s deliberate. Vanity’s a virtue here in Montreal, and the city’s beautiful because it wants to be. Something wonderful is happening in this city. Despite corruption scandals that would make a Latin American dictator blush. Despite crumbling municipal infrastructure that’s made much of downtown look like the perfect place to shoot a post-apocalyptic disaster movie. Despite all of these things, and against all odds, there’s a buzz of creativity here right now unlike anything I’ve seen before in my lifetime.
Love is Not a Liquid Asset
Sex is love’s fast-forward button. If you’re normal, sooner or later, you’re going to fall in love with the person you’re sleeping with, or they’re going to fall in love with you, whether you like it or not. “Passionate love,” as Jonathan Haidt rightly observes in The Happiness Hypothesis (2006), “is a drug. Its symptoms overlap with those of heroin . . . and cocaine . . . . Passionate love alters the activity of several parts of the brain, including parts that are involved in the release of dopamine. Any experience that feels intensely good releases dopamine, and the dopamine link is crucial here because drugs that artificially raise dopamine levels, as do heroin and cocaine...
Social Media Land
The promise of Social Media Land was always, to some extent, an imperialistic dream. The geeks who created this online world were all, to a man, urban liberals who hoped the Internet would bring the light of civilization to Sameville, a mythological small town where everybody’s white and wrong. The enlightened minds of the multicultural metropolis were going to bring the true gospel of diversity and tolerance and freedom to the benighted citizens of Sameville. If these guys had a theme song, it would be a cover of Walter Donaldson’s Jazz Era classic “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree)?” (1919) entitled “How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down in Stupidlandia...
Social Distancing
Just as a sacred relic isn’t inherently sacred, and your special dishes aren’t inherently special, the techniques of poetry are not poetry. They are but a means to an end. Calling a piece of writing poetry is like putting your favorite salamander on the Endangered Species List, or getting UNESCO to declare all of your favorite places World Heritage Sites. Poetry is what we do to words when we want to make them holy again. Poetic language is the spirit that moved across the face of the waters; it is language with the talismanic power to illuminate the world around us. This makes it as essential as a face-mask at the moment, and as useful as hand-sanitizer. For it is in the darkest hours t...
Annual Report
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The New Yorker
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Chicago Police
"The book also delves into how the Chicago Police Department battles gangs, guns, drugs, and murder; how Hillard exhibited leadership in good times and in bad times; how Hillard dealt with politicians, the community, cops on the street and the media; how the department handled difficult crimes and their investigations; and how Hillard led, what he learned in the process, and what he accomplished. The book also discusses contemporary police issues including police corruption and brutality, use of force by police, police pursuits, police shootings and deaths, community policing, police accountability, and the use of emerging technologies in the fight against crime."--BOOK JACKET.
Being a Philosopher in Social Media Land
The promise of Social Media Land was always, to some extent, an imperialistic dream. The geeks who created this online world were all, to a man, urban liberals who hoped the Internet would bring the light of civilization to Sameville, a mythological small town where everybody's white and wrong. The enlightened minds of the multicultural metropolis were going to bring the true gospel of diversity and tolerance to the benighted citizens of Sameville. If these guys had a theme song, it would be a cover of Walter Donaldson's Jazz Era classic-"How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?" (1919)-entitled "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down in Stupidlandia (After They've Seen Portlan...
The Big Book of Geography
"Hundreds of lists and oddities fill this compendium of geographic trivia. From a list of countries with the lowest number of international tourists per year to information about the largest countries in the world without an FM station, this book of wide-ranging curiosities includes minutia from across the globe"--Provided by publisher
