"If you are lonely when you are alone, then you are in bad company" - Jean Paul Sartre
17 days until Paris
Obama Calls Out Republicans for Their "I'm Not a Scientist" Line - Slate
The highlight of the State of the Union in my eyes:
"Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what — I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe."
The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking" - Vox
The Books They Carried on Omaha Beach - The Daily Beast
Music
I Look to You - Miami Horror
Let It Burn - The Orwells
Making Breakfast - Twin Peaks
Eternal - Faun Fables
Crystallized - The xx
Another album I should have listened to all the way through when it came out. Just now (re)discovering the xx.
Podcasts
Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde - This American Life
No Coincidence, No Story - This American Life
Stochasticity - Radiolab
This episode is quite similar to the TAL episode above. What a coincidence.
Harold - This American Life
About Mayor Harorld Washington, Chicago's first and so far, only, black Mayor. I never knew any of this.
Videos
I Dare You To Watch This Entire Video - Collegehumor
Don Rickles: You'll Never Play the Copa - Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Pic of the Week
