"What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, “Write what you know.” It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don’t develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one."
— ANNIE PROULX (via kadrey)
- 4 days ago
- 89
Susan Gerbic - “Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia” - JREF Workshop
Activist Susan Gerbic teaches you how to edit and expand Wikipedia in a way that challenges unsupported claims, spreads truthful information about pseudoscience and the paranormal, and helps the public have a better understanding of science and critical thinking.
Mentioned in this video:
Jamy Ian Swiss - “Overlapping Magisteria”:
http://youtu.be/DIiznLE5Xno
“Can James Van Praagh Talk with Dead People?”:
http://youtu.be/FHmTIKIEIXoRecorded live at the James Randi Educational Foundation headquarters in Hollywood, California.
Duration: 01:12:38
via JREF Video.
- 1 week ago
- 10
"Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself."
— Vilfredo Pareto (via heartbloodspirit)
- 1 week ago
- 37
