Friday, 13 June 2014

Sarah Slean - "When Another Midnight"

Curious mix of alt-folk and Shivaree swavy singing

Her rendition of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" is wrong though, very wrong.

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

semicompatibilism

Semicompatibilism is the doctrine that causal determinism is compatible with moral responsibility, even if casual determinism rules out freedom to do otherwise.

humans an accidental victim of bacteria

Amazing read about how bacteria often don't target us, just accidently might infect us. We are young bystanders in a war of a million years old.

http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/bacteria-kill-us-by-accident/


Monday, 9 June 2014

David Gilbert - "Here's the story"

A short in the New Yorker and pretty amazing at that. Man and woman, each for their own reasons in a bad relationship, meet, twice, and a spark flies. 85% of the story is a side by side of their lives, almost never touching. Simple and beautiful. Elegant story telling.

Sunday, 8 June 2014

Alex Banks - "Illuminate"

Deep house + glitch-hop, poppy... says 3voor12. okay.
Not bad. "Phosporus" sounds a bit like the cut-up of Disney's Alice in Wonderland by that P-... guy (one word)