From the BBC this morning, an hour’s meditation on the nature, practice and moral questions regarding war photography: Regarding the Pain of Others In her 2003 essay Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag grappled with this question. War photograp…
CBT, chronic pain, and ableism
The article reads as self-congratulatory, biased, and anti-opioid, going so far as to say that therapists are providing a “powerful salve for suffering” despite later admitting that most research only shows one-third of participants experience signific…
Ecologies, empathy, parenting, robots, and unanticipated consequences
Two scifi stories about tech inventions that don’t work out as their designers planned. Ken Liu’s “Quality Time” (from last year) looks into “unsolved problems in home automation” and a friendship at a startup. “Nobel Prize Speech Draft of Paul Winterh…
The Challenges of Emerging from Lockdown
Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World [slLitHub]
What is life?
Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth – “The union of two energetic and informatic processes that can encode and pass on adaptive information forward through time. Using this definition vastly increases what can be …