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Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

The act of suicide necessarily involves the ravages of biology and personal disposition. But it also intersects with the ability of a society—its structures, mandates, and dominant ideologies—to impart and sustain purpose.

The Two Faces of Suicide

Barrett Swanson

At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

wired.com

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