Boing Boing has been on a roll recently, featuring several fascinating posts …
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Month: August 2005
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Too close for comfort
After we returned from Estonia, I set up a few RSS feeds to keep track of what’s going on over there. I was a bit stunned to read this week that the helicopter we took from Tallinn to Helsinki crashed in the Baltic Sea, killing all 14 people aboard. Things like that really make you pause and reassess …
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An End to Suffering
I just finished Pankaj Mishra’s phenomenal biography of the Buddha, “An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.”