This page badly needs an overhaul. Until I do it, you can find better links by browsing the archives linked from the bottom of the home page.
miscellaneous and fringe links
Incredible
postapocalypse highway painting. Here's
another source.
The Right to Raw Milk. I've never seen the science and the politics of raw milk covered so well in one place.
Two great essays by Curtis White in Orion Magazine,
The Idols of Environmentalism, and
The Ecology of Work.
Fun unfinished page on
future Medieval America.
How I quit heroin and other toxic substances, an excellent essay on drug addiction.
Business Reply, a sixteen page comic you can put in junk mail envelopes to give ideas to the people who open them.
Myths over Miami, a great exploration of the myth system of homeless kids. I like the idea that good doesn't rule, but only fights in the shadows of a world ruled by evil.
Philip K Dick's essay
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later. And another great Dick essay,
The Android and the Human.
Rupert Sheldrake's summary of
morphic fields, probably the most important scientific theory of the past 30 years.
The best article on
Jesus I've ever seen.
Rudy Rucker's "Reality Is A Novel" Theory
Transcript of a great
Bill Hicks performance.
Mental illness is not caused by brain chemistry except when the medical cartel, with no evidence, pretends to cure you by charging you a fortune for brain-chemistry-altering drugs that
really fuck you up.
The best theory I've seen about
ghosts -- that there are parallel worlds or other dimensions, intersecting and overlapping our own, and stuff can come through if there's electromagnetic interference.
And a related article, a nice summary of the
Holographic Universe theory and how it explains the "paranormal."
A very smart article by Jacques Vallee and Eric Davis: that aliens are trying to contact us, but their reality and technology are so different from ours that we don't recognize their communications, or we dismiss them as too strange to be "real."
PDF file: Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness
No UFO's here! A guy has figured out the
forgotten technology by which Stonehenge-size blocks can be moved and lifted by one person using simple physics.
A totally cool article from Fortean Times about
feral kids
Humans are as closely related to peaceful
bonobos as we are to aggressive chimpanzees. Clearly, not close enough. "The species is best characterized as female-centered and egalitarian and as one that substitutes sex for aggression."
Excellent and thorough collection of
hypermiling tips, and a good article on
extreme hypermiling.
How a single driver can smooth out traffic jams!
Here's a lengthy and fascinating
history of the world, from millions of years ago to the present. It focuses on weapons and fighting but is full of all kinds of cool stuff.
And a good summary of evidence for
highly advanced ancient civilizations.
For you folks with fast internet:
An index of
Hubble telescope photos
A catalog of
photos of atomic bomb explosions
An online
cave art gallery
anti-civilization writings
awok.org
primitivism.com (last updated November 2002)
Jared Diamond's
The worst mistake in the history of the human race
Marshall Sahlins's
The original affluent society
politics
Debunking the "Tragedy of the Commons". In reality, land held in common tends to be managed well, and privately owned land tends to be exploited. But in 1968 a eugenicist named Garrett Hardin pulled a paper out of his ass that said exactly the opposite with no evidence, and the owning classes thought it was brilliant.
The Politics of Victimization is the best essay I've seen on the psychology of American politics, comparing it to an abusive relationship.
If you don't understand how so many Americans can maintain ridiculous beliefs against overwhelming evidence, read this long article about an internet scam artist,
Snared by a cybercult queen.
"The Despoiling of America," a shocking article about
Dominionism, the scary movement that has taken over the Republican party and is trying to
force the rapture. And here's my favorite
Bush psychological profile.
A summary of
why they hate us
The wonderful
Laurie Garrett World Economic Forum letter. Originally a private email, it forwarded its way out to the public because it was so clear, honest, and revealing compared to the way reporters are required to write for the propaganda industry.
An anonymous post about how easy it is to sabotage the infrastructure and therefore, since no one does it, how
there is no terrorism in the USA except for a few spectacles which, in this context, look really suspicious.
The Betrayal Of Adam Smith. America has never been capitalist!
Are cops constitutional? No! What we take for granted as the "police" are a recent invention of the centralized industrial state. Less than 200 years ago, all the nice stuff they do was done by regular citizens, and all the bad stuff they do, like breaking into your house and you're not allowed to defend yourself, was not imagined in the worst nightmares of the Framers.
Hey,
Nazi Germany's war on terrorism sounds really familiar!
And before Hitler made it temporarily unfashionable, we had plenty of programs of
eugenics in America. Ironically, they also had
eugenics in Israel.
A great Ted Rall column about the Iraqi resistance,
Why We Fight.
What does income distribution in the USA look like? This graph is a shocker!
The L Curve
reference
NationMaster has statistics by nation on anything you can imagine, and the site is exceptionally well made.
A
death toll index of the 20th century, with the number of people killed in every conflict I've ever heard of and hundreds I haven't.
The site map of my favorite nutrition site, the
Weston A. Price Foundation.