Canary in the Coal Mine - Day

Thursday, April 4, 2013

1:30PM

The boy shrugged his shoulders, grumbled something and started pulling the girl’s warm boots off. He himself was wearing ankle shoes. I tried interfering and told him he was a bloody son of a bitch, that she was still alive! ‘So what, uncle,’ he replied, ‘She will die in half an hour anyway, and my feet are cold.’ I was so lost that, when I got back to my senses, the girl was already dead.

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/living-together/polina-aronson-siege-of-leningrad/

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5:10PM

The Joy of Statistics: Hans Rosling (BBC)

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5:51PM

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/why-the-enlightenment-still-matters-today

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