Links, glorious links:
Dostoevsky (still) matters.
Why the Hollywood press trashed John Carter while ignoring the similiarly-fated Battleship.
How headphones changed the world.
Leo Strauss’ mediocrity.
The condescension of “meeting people where they are.”
Interesting. I may have to check out John Carter because I did enjoy Finding Nemo and WALL-E. It’s interesting that Bird’s live-action foray was treated pretty mercifully considering it was yet another Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie. It was fun, though, and it’s hard to go wrong with a Brad Bird movie that has Simon Pegg in it.
… and of course Dostoevsky still matters. If Daniel Kahneman can observe that knowing what cognitive biases and heuristics are doesn’t mean they don’t stop making you have idiotic moments then Dostoevsky was arguably so far ahead of his time in grasping the inscrutability of human motives we’re only just now working that out in terms of cognitive research centuries later.
But I’m biased by being a Dostoevsky fan, aren’t i?