Previously
on MoreLiver’s:
A Psychotronic Childhood – The
New Yorker
Learning from B-movies.
Letters discovered by Salon show even deeper
Cold War ties between the Paris Review and a U.S. propaganda front
The First Zombie-Proof House – All
That Is Interesting
Is how to engage with the crackpot at the
scientific meeting an ethical question? – SciAm
Robot ethics: Morals and the machine – The Economist
As robots grow more autonomous, society needs
to develop rules to manage them
Obama's Secret Kill List – reason
The essence of our values is the rule of law,
not the rule of presidents.
40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken – BuzzFeed
A moving collection of iconic photographs from
the last 100 years that demonstrate the heartbreak of loss, the tremendous
power of loyalty, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Brain scan: A maverick in flight – The Economist
Burt Rutan, a pioneering and unconventional
aerospace engineer, has made a career of doing what other people say is
impossible
On Immortality – London
School of Economics (audio)
The will to live forever is central to the
human story. Can it be fulfilled? And should we want it to be? Stephen Cave is a philosopher and
writer. He is the author of Immortality: the quest to live forever and how It
drives civilisation. John Gray is emeritus professor of European thought at LSE
and author of The Immortalization Commission: the strange quest to cheat death.
In an era
characterised by economic crisis in the West, what kind of global role does China's geoeconomic
strategy aspire to?
Daddy, What Were Compact Discs? – NYT
One day, when my children are a little older, I
will gather them close and I will tell them about how I lived through the Great
Format Wars.
50 Animated GIFs To "Turn On, Tune In, And
Drop Out" – BuzzFeed
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych
and neuro links
Extras – British
Psychological Society
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final
cut
FiveBooks Interviews: Anne-Marie Slaughter on
21st Century Foreign Policy – The
Browser
The US State Department now
spends less than half of its effort on its traditional role of managing
state-to-state relations. A former senior official tells us what it’s doing
instead
The Self Illusion: How Our Social Brain
Constructs Who We Are
– brain
pickings
Hume was a neuroscientist, or what early
aviation has to do with the psychology of identity.
Why Is Memory So Good and So Bad? – SciAm
Explaining the memory paradox
Meet ‘Flame,’ The Massive Spy Malware
Infiltrating Iranian Computers – Wired
A massive, highly sophisticated piece of
malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is
believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage
operation.
Beauties of the Sea: Behold the World’s Finest
Superyachts – Wired
Even among the most luxurious of pleasure
boats, some yachts are finer than others. And the finest of them all win the
coveted Neptune Trophy, given out at the World Superyacht Awards.
The Fake Magazines Used in Blade Runner Are
Still Futuristic, Awesome – The
Atlantic
Beautiful and cool magazines purportedly from
the movie Blade Runner are circling the Internet. But are they real?
The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc
Andreessen – Wired
My war: How I got irony in the infantry – Harper’s Magazine