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Under The Influence

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I spent summers with my grandparents as a boy. My grandfather seemed old to me then, but he was only in his forties, just half his life lived. His days were ruled by routine. Up at 3 AM, he’d leave… Read More ›

Are e-cigarettes safe?

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The move to make e-cigarettes available on the NHS has largely been welcomed. Prof Alan Boobis, emeritus professor of toxicology at Imperial College London and chair of the UK Committee on Toxicity, said smokers could already buy e-cigarettes to try… Read More ›

Rich Image, Poor Image

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I owned cameras intermittently through my teens and early twenties, but for most of that time I believed that it was better to “be in the moment” than to look at the world through a lens—a fear of alienation that… Read More ›

hothouse gullibility flowers

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I find these thought experiments infuriating when they are used as examples of people’s “irrationality”. It’s akin to economists thinking people are irrational for preferring receiving ten dollars now vs thirty dollars a year from now. In an uncertain world,… Read More ›