Aloud Issue No. 16 - Valéry, Gould
Your weekly dose of the best writing on the internet, read aloud.
The conquest of ubiquity
Paul Valéry | 1928 | Original Source
Short essay by legendary author Paul Valéry from 1928 predicting much of technological modernity, which he explains by using the idea of transmitting the senses on demand. (8 minutes)
The Median Isn't the Message
Stephen Jay Gould | May 2002 | Original Source
Essay by the prolific writer and Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould on his personal experience with cancer and how statistics are often misunderstood and misused in medicine. (14 minutes)
Something Worth Pondering
“Love is wise. Hatred is foolish.”
― Bertrand Russell
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