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More recent issues are all published at thewhippet.org. (But if you subscribe here, you'll still be added to the mailing list and receive new issues…
Mar 12
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The Whippet #141: Say yes and figure out how later
"When I consulted him about my affairs, especially in times of adversity, he did not look down on me as a fool, knowing well that fortune both smiles…
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The Whippet #140: Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless
I know so much about Lord Byron as a character and historical figure (“Mad, bad, and dangerous to know”) but I’ve never actually read any of his poems…
Feb 16
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The Whippet #139: Heads or tentacles?
Today I am thinking about: weird career milestones. The ones that absolutely are indicators of prestige, but you never would have deliberately aimed for…
Feb 2
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The Whippet #138: Nothing rhymes with money-laundering
If you wear contact lenses for too many hours without a break, new blood vessels start growing in towards your iris, like plants growing towards the…
Jan 19
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The Whippet #137: Please don’t make me fight a fire ant
Today's animals: Sarcastic Fringehead, Stoplight Loosejaw, Silken Windhound, Raspberry Crazy Ant. Also: my all-time favourite letter from an advice…
Jan 5
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Whippet Cetera: Two ways to think about hope
Parents do not have to be suffused with love and adoration for their baby at every single moment in order to do the sometimes-tedious acts of care the…
Dec 13, 2021
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The Whippet #136: Please don't explain to me what a metasurface is
The world’s deadliest shark is not the one you think it is, muppets are left-handed, secular parables, a brave elephant, and that's it, I'm done, I…
Dec 8, 2021
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The Whippet #135: “That’s not very sentinel chicken of you”
Did you know there are way more kinds of discharge than just Honourable/Dishonourable? I did not! Also: vulnerability hangover, hungry tiger, early…
Nov 24, 2021
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The Whippet #134: Those that tremble as if they were mad
We group things into arbitrary and overlapping categories: mammal, omnivore, tall. Therefore the number of categories in the world is larger than the…
Nov 10, 2021
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The Whippet #134: Those that tremble as if they were mad
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The Whippet #133: Someone stubborn
Courage's dark counterpart, pigeon2, oldest ghost, food rituals, narcissists have ruined backing yourself, stuck dolphins, etc
Oct 27, 2021
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Whippet Cetera: Courage's dark counterpart
Lying is the most important of the vices, because without lying you can’t practise any other vice consistently. It is the "dark counterpart" to courage…
Oct 21, 2021
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