Wealth Addiction

Excellent article describing the experience of being a money addict.


My ThoughtStorms page for it.

Saddest story I read today. Humans really are fucked, aren't we?

Update : Seb Paquet linked a question on Quora that I answered.

Good article about a journalist I've never heard of.

With a kicking paragraph about maths and compassion. In a psychology experiment ...

Worse still, when the authors asked one set of subjects to perform mathematical calculations and the other set of subjects to describe their feelings when they heard the word "baby," the subjects who'd done math gave only about half as much to Rokia as the ones who'd thought about babies. Apparently, just thinking analytically makes us stingier. The authors of the study concluded that "calculative thought lessens the appeal of an identifiable victim.

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New Scientist on denialism.

Ouch! Analyze your tweets.

Arguably now is the time you should start despairing of humanity. Scientists rerun the Milgram test and get the same result!!!!