Here’s Feynman on elitist in-groups. Great.
Here’s the top rated youtube comment, also great:
Yeah but Mr, Feynman most of us have never actually accomplished anything. So all we have are the false accolades from others that haven’t accomplished anything either. We all get together and pat each other on the back and pass out pieces of paper with squiggly writing or shiny plaques to each other in special clubs because it makes up for our not accomplishing anything. Oh man I’m so depressed now.
Poster for Museum Rietberg Zürich (1952).
Design by Ernst Keller.
Found here.
From Krugman:
A final thought: the notion that there must be a “fundamental” source for money’s value, although it’s a right-wing trope, bears a strong family resemblance to the Marxist labor theory of value. In each case what people are missing is that value is an emergent property, not an essence: money, and actually everything, has a market value based on the role it plays in our economy — full stop.
Cartoon of the day by Paul Noth. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/VkhNwF
Cartoon of the day by David Sipress. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/SJI0Gq
—Lyndon B. Johnson (via historical-nonfiction)
(Source: brainyquote.com, via historical-nonfiction)
Oct. 3, 1953: That year’s World Series, which pitted the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Yankees at Ebbets Field, was a seven-game saga. The published caption: “‘Standing room only … was meaningless to these nonpaying Brooklyn fans. They took the Dodger victory lying down, and they loved it.” The Yankees, however, won the series. Photo: Arthur Brower/The New York Times
Illustration from Bill Mckibben’s great piece in Rolling Stone.
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free. Nobody else gets that break – if you own a restaurant, you have to pay someone to cart away your trash, since piling it in the street would breed rats. But the fossil-fuel industry is different, and for sound historical reasons: Until a quarter-century ago, almost no one knew that CO2 was dangerous.
That’s it right there.
