Archive for the 'theory' Category

Great article about how the cure to scurvy was discovered, lost and rediscovered.

"These scholars want to break down the categories and distinctions that have defined how we think about our relationship to everything that is not us. Some of them see it as nothing less than a revolution in how to think and how to live."

Story of a group of Black federal defendants in federal murder and racketeering cases adopting a nonsensical white supremacist doctrine rejecting the authority of the Federal government as their defense.

"Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."