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- Early telegraph routes were strikingly similar to today’s Internet pathways http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/places/charlie-mccann/proto-internet 25 comments
- The Last Days of the Polymath (2009) http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath 19 comments
- The Best Philosophy is Hume's Scepticism http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anonymous/best-philosophy-humes-scepticism 2 comments
- Apple v Google http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/robert-lane-greene/apple-v-google 10 comments
- The last days of the polymath http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath 31 comments
- Should we be sceptical of science? http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science 2 comments
- Hunt for Modern Polymaths: 20 Living Examples http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/ed-cumming/hunting-modern-polymaths 13 comments
- The Last Days of the Polymath http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath 8 comments
- Is Google killing general knowledge? http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/brian-cathcart/no-passes 36 comments
- Being Crazy Is Noisy http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/being-crazy-noisy 19 comments
- Solo Science: Tinkering outside the tower http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/solo-science 2 comments
- MIDNIGHT’S GROWN-UPS - In 1967, an Indian film-maker asked 20-year-olds what they thought of their country. Nearly half a century later, Samanth Subramanian goes in search of the same people to see what they make of India now. http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/places/samanth-subramanian/midnights-grown-ups?page=full 8 comments india
- Reading the Game: intelligence tends to be regarded with deep suspicion in sport. But now it has won the World Cup http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/ed-smith/intelligence-sport 15 comments soccer
- P.G. WODEHOUSE'S ART OF THE COMMA http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/anonymous/pg-wodehouse 3 comments books
- Across Berlin and other European cities, 40,000 small brass plates embedded in front of buildings remember residents who died in the Holocaust. These are called Stolpersteine - "stumbling stones" http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/places/andreas-kluth/stumbling-over-past?page=full 47 comments history
- David Foster Wallace's 2005 Commencement Speech to Kenyon College. One of my favorite short reads http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words 105 comments books
- Football Is The Best Sport - It can be played to a high standard by people of all shapes and sizes, it doesn't require pricey equipment, it has the potential for beauty. And it's the most morally interesting http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/football-best-sport 27 comments soccer
- India's Shot at Gold - As women's boxing joins the Olympics, Rahul Bhattacharya profiles the phenomenal Mary Kom—five-times world champion and mother of two—who has had to battle against far more than just her opponents in the ring... http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/india%27s-shot-gold?page=full 3 comments india
- This Is Water (amazing speech by a genius) http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words 126 comments philosophy
- Once a mark of the cultured, language-learning is in retreat among English speakers. It’s never too late, but where to start? http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/robert-lane-greene/which-best-language-learn 7 comments linguistics
- Andy Warhol: One-Man Market --- The new Picasso. His work accounts for 17% of contemporary auction sales. You can buy five Titians for one good Warhol. Is it because he's a great artist, or just because he's fun? "Nobody need ever be puzzled by a Warhol" http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/a-one-man-market?page=full 7 comments business
- What was the best time and place to be alive? http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/best-time-and-place-be-alive 106 comments history
- "lately we have begun to consider the possibility that technology might change us more in a generation or two than evolution has done over millions of years." http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/julian-baggini/we-will-get-better 43 comments technology
- Polymaths dying breed? CHAllENGE ACCEPTED http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/edward-carr/last-days-polymath 20 comments science
- The Lure of Lists: For some, a list of 1001 books you "must" read is no mere suggestion. http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/jeremy-dauber/lure-lists 5 comments books
- You've Been Verbed: Friending, trending, even evidencing and statementing... plenty of nouns are turning into verbs http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gardner/youve-been-verbed 25 comments linguistics
- The Limits of Science http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science 22 comments philosophy
- A Danish study of early puberty onset aims to prove whether oestrogenic pollutants are to blame http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/fiona-neill/puberty-blues 13 comments science
- How is an ordinary person to know what today’s professional philosophers think? http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/what-do-philosophers-believe 45 comments philosophy
- "DON'T YOU THINK SHE'S A LITTLE BIT YOUNG?" http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/print/2002 11 comments reddit.com
- The Last Days of the Polymath http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/print/2078 11 comments cogsci
- Today is the one year anniversary of DFW's suicide. Here's the transcript of his Kenyon commencement speech, for your bittersweet inspiration. http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words 9 comments books
- Where is a hedonist to look for his heroes? Not to the religious traditions of the East, to be sure: they lack enthusiasm for the illusory pleasures of this world. The Buddha may have rejected the stony path of asceticism, but he was keener on eliminating desires than on satisfying them. http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/863 34 comments philosophy
- Is Google killing general knowledge? http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/brian-cathcart/no-passes 3 comments reddit.com
- We Are All African Now. http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/jm-ledgard/exodus 4 comments history
- An evolutionary reason to give up http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/emily-bobrow/evolutionary-reason-give 45 comments cogsci
- Nothing to think about. http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/nothing-think-about 3 comments philosophy
- Someone to Watch Over Me - How to tell if you're being followed, and what to do if you are http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/897 3 comments reddit.com
- The Perils of Popularizing Science http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/820 3 comments science
- "Today's British public is as panicky about paedophiles as its ancestors were about witches." http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/node/766 8 comments politics