If you were born in a mental asylum you would not know that everyone was insane.

Closely related to slavery is the practice of debt bondage

War has been likened to dueling, and recall that dueling was eventually laughed into extinction.

We don’t know what causes what, but biology and history suggest that, all else being equal, a world in which woman have more influence will be a world with fewer wars.

If this is accurate, it underlines everything I've written recently about the Murdoch media behaving effectively as a political party in pursuit of its financial interests. It would also undermine everything said in Murdoch's defence by his henchman. afr.com/brand/rear-win…

Imagine a world in which everyone worked only 15 hours a week #HowMuchisEnough

The big bang.... "the limit case for credulity..."

#Capitalism : a system that overproduces work and underproduces leisure

Spare a thought for the Lizard people #sidewaysblinking 🤷‍♂️😂😂😂

All primates suffer from the affliction of male dominance.... As a species we are only just starting to overcome this unfortunate pattern of behaviour.

The universe is not really like a valueless machine but more like a developing organism that somehow builds upon previously achieved levels of complexity. As the most complex beings on earth (and maybe in our galaxy) it is our job to build upon that. To go #Interstellar.

#Artemis1 will reach the farthest distance from Earth for a human-rated spacecraft in the coming weeks... pretty cool. #progress

nirvana : the literal meaning of which is ‘extinguishing the fire’

Greedy swine are using tax loopholes to offshore billions. Also cows go moo | First Dog on the Moon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be

"The ability to plan ahead seems so basic that we take it for granted, but it’s quite a marvelous capacity of the... a.co/8XIPlrx

"Life on Earth has undergone a series of dramatic phase transitions. Self-replicating organisms, cell nuclei, mul... a.co/4olCTrs

Am I smply a puppet, pulled and pushed as my atoms jostle amongst themselves according to the laws of physics?

Not all illusions are visual

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.