Staying Strong as We Age. "The changes that we’ve assumed were due to aging and therefore were unstoppable seem actually to be caused by inactivity. And that can be changed." … Perhaps the most heartening article on aging and exercise I’ve seen.
Her Own Flesh and Blood. The story of a family devastated by AIDS.
Confessions of a Car Salesman. 10 years old, but still a good read.
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs. Making the rounds for good reason. Even if you have had enough Steve Jobs coverage, this one is lovingly done.
Steve Jobs by Stephen Fry. "‘Style over substance' has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence."
A Shakespeare Scholar on Emmerich’s Shakespeare Movie. "The Shakespeare controversy, which emerged in the 19th century (at that time, theorists proposed that Francis Bacon was Shakespeare), was one of the origins of the willful ignorance and insidious false balance that is now rotting away our capacity to have meaningful discussions. The wider public, which has no reason to be familiar with questions of either Renaissance chronology or climate science, assumes that if there are arguments, there must be reasons for those arguments. Along with a right-wing antielitism, an unthinking left-wing open-mindedness and relativism have also given lunatic ideas soil to grow in. Our politeness has actually led us to believe that everybody deserves a say."
Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It. “Generation X hasn’t had a real voice since Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, Tupac was murdered, Jeff Mangum went crazy, David Foster Wallace hung himself, Jeff Buckley drowned, River Phoenix overdosed, Elliott Smith stabbed himself (twice) in the heart, Axl got fat.”
An oldie, but new to me: what it would sound like if pre-flight announcements were honest.
Mysterious Circumstances. Fascinating piece on the death of a Sherlock Holmes scholar. I also had no idea how thoroughly Holmes loomed over/consumed so many lives, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s, his heirs, Basil Rathbone’s, Sherlockians, etc.
Quantum Levitation. Totally wild! Bring on the Flash Gordon future.
Here's [an explanation](http://www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html).A few links that piled up during my little hiatus (which wasn’t terribly productive; it turns out saving the little blocks of time don’t help me much, what I need are big blocks of time).