People who think about machine ethics make it sound like you can come up with a perfect set of rules…
25 Things About Life I Wish I Had Known 10 Years Ago – Darius Foroux
Socrates, considered as one of the founders of Western philosophy, was once named the wisest man on earth by the…
Eating Animals – Natalie Portman
Eating Animals – Natalie Portman
Ten Thousand Years of Solitude – Jared Diamond
We do, however, know precisely what happened to Tasmanian society–and its end was cataclysmic. At the very least, the story…
Open Society
opensocietyfoundationsValentina, 2 years old, comforts her sister Grace in the playroom of their house in Monterrey, Mexico, on August 12,…
The Loving Place for Children That Assumes Beauty – David Brooks
Father Luigi Giussani, who saw faith not as an intellectual system, but as an encounter with beauty, a love story.…
Fatcfulness – Hans Rosling
Another remarkable thing about Factfulness—and about Hans himself—is that he refuses to judge anyone for their misconceptions. Most writers would…
No Risky Chances – Atul Gawande
But not all of us have. That takes, however, at least two kinds of courage. The first is the courage…
It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room’ – Allan Goldstein
When pediatric surgeon Allan Goldstein entered the operating room to separate conjoined twins, he did so with the knowledge that…
