Lessons From Singapore: The Long Road To Water Independence - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Eric Feigenbaum27d ago
by Eric Feigenbaum As a child of Southern California, I knew the importance of water conservation from a young age.
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top 88%Hyena Ethics: When Harming Others Feels Righteous and Pleasing - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Daniel Gauss28d ago
by Daniel Gauss Metaphorically, if hippo ethics is the impulse to respond to suffering with compassion, hyena ethics is the impulse to enjoy, justify or morally authorize suffering.
A List of Things I Was Hoping To Do Before Summer Ended And Now It’s Too Late - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Akim Reinhardt28d ago
by Akim Reinhardt Finish the book manuscript Repair that crack in the upstairs hallway wall Go for a swim Get an oil change for the car Take a trip to Hudson, Ohio Shave down to just a moustache...
Harvard Wins A Round Against Trump - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Charles Siegel29d ago
by Charles Siegel In one of my first columns for 3 Quarks Daily, Don’t Deport Protesters, or Defund Universities, in My Name, I lamented the Trump administration’s efforts to, in its own words...
The Virtuous Skill of Complaining - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Marie Snyder29d ago
by Marie Snyder I’ve been a complainer since childhood. From the outside, people might suggest it’s a miserable disposition that’s neither useful nor pleasant, but, from the inside, I was just...
Jefferson Expresses His Mind (On Slavery) - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Michael Liss8 Sept 2026
by Michael Liss My Jefferson is a giant, but a giant trammeled in a net, and obliged (he thought) to keep repairing and strengthening the coils of that net.
A Catechism of Unknown Voices - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby David Winner and Angela Starita8 Sept 2026
by Angela Starita The state of the world, it’s understood, has led to poor sleep habits and hours of doom scrolling.
The future of the Firewall - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jeroen Bouterse7 Sept 2026
by Jeroen Bouterse The Brandmauer – the political ‘firewall’ against the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland – is under duress.
How Facts Are Made - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby W. Alex Foxworthy7 Sept 2026
by W. Alex Foxworthy Recently, following an assignment that required AI use, a student asked me whether it was true that every question she asks a chatbot uses up a whole bottle of water.
Domination/Subordination Dynamics: Five Foundational Books Challenging Illegitimate Authority - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robert Jensen6 Sept 2026
Many of the books that shaped my work as a professor, author, and activist came into my life during my first two years of graduate school (1988-90), the most exciting period of concentrated...
Check Your Head - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Hanas4 Sept 2026
by Jim Hanas When I interviewed the author George Saunders years ago, he told me that his work was an attempt “to figure out a way that the spiritual would not be full of shit.” A tall order in an...
So Spin Me, Baby, One More Time! - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Carlota Figueroa4 Sept 2026
by Carlota Figueroa Have you ever heard of a particle’s spin before? If you have, I bet that the first time you were introduced to this concept you were told to imagine a ball that spins on its...
Puzzles for Fun and Profit - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jonathan Kujawa3 Sept 2026
by Jonathan Kujawa Lots of people enjoy a good puzzle. Take Sudoku puzzles. Like many good puzzles, the rules of Sudoku are simple.
It's All Improv - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Nils Peterson3 Sept 2026
by Nils Peterson I was on my way to a fun Improv class taught at my senior living quarters. I had been thinking about Leonard Bernstein’s remark “It’s all jazz” before I set out.
Revolver at Sixty - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza2 Sept 2026
Sam Jennings at The Hinternet: Let’s begin with an inconvenient truth: there’s really nothing new to be said about Revolver, just as there’s nothing new to be said about The Beatles themselves.
Good Bones - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Lei Wang2 Sept 2026
by Lei Wang Maple syrup is made by boiling down the much more watery maple sap, the stuff that actually comes from the trees and is only 2% sugar.
Fabulism: What Moderate Democrats Don't Get About The Gaza War - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Christopher Hall2 Sept 2026
by Christopher Hall About this time ten years ago, I was making a wreck of myself by paying an absurd amount of attention to the politics of a country I’m not even a citizen of.
What Does "We the People" Mean? A Chronicle of the Constitution's Expanding Circle of Inclusion - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Ken MacVey1 Sept 2026
by Ken MacVey The preamble of the US Constitution famously begins with the phrase “We the People”. Who, and how many, constituted this self-identified group?
Is Reading Really All That? - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Marianne Janack1 Sept 2026
by Marianne Janack When I ask people if they actually read all the things that they were assigned to read during their college education, they all tell me that they didn’t.
Is Implanted “Knowledge” Knowledge? - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Tim Sommers31 Aug 2026
by Tim Sommers In 2013, a team of researchers at MIT successfully implanted a false memory in mice of being shocked and then “reactivated” that implanted memory.