June 2011
92 posts
sparkplug:
“I’m into hard sci-fi. Fantasy is bullshit.”
currently watching party down on netflix.
I shit on the chest of Fun.
– Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear (via fuckyeahhst)
The Surprisingly Cool History of Ice →
youmightfindyourself:
Perhaps it was his Yankee entrepreneurial spirit, or perhaps monomania, but Tudor was obsessed with the idea that ice would make him rich. During the next decade, he developed clever new techniques to convince people that they actually needed ice, including a “first one’s free” pitch. While living in a South Carolina boarding house in 1819, Tudor made a habit of bringing a...
A field guide to bullshit →
youmightfindyourself:
How do people defend their beliefs in bizarre conspiracy theories or the power of crystals? Philosopher Stephen Law has tips for spotting their strategies
You describe your new book, Believing Bullshit, as a guide to avoid getting sucked into “intellectual black holes”. What are they? Intellectual black holes are belief systems that draw people in and hold them captive so...
As Deepak Chopra taught us, quantum physics means anything can happen at any...
– Professor Farnsworth (via petrellica)