Guest Thinkers — September 1, 2010

Recommend Eruptions to friends and strangers

Recommend Eruptions!

The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free.

Just a gentle, loving reminder that if you like what you see on Eruptions, why not recommend these articles on your website of choice: Digg, Technorati, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, Twitter, whatever. You can also follow Eruptions via Facebook. Click on the link for “Networked Blogs” in the bottom left cover of this page.

Hope you keep enjoying the volcano news!

The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free.

High Culture

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

Neuropsych

After taking LSD, he was sober for a year. Then came the recurring flashbacks.

A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.

Read Stoicism

Your first philosophers: Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, and one strange new face. Why the first books people read about Stoicism should be by one of these guys. On Stoicism Graduation season […]

Guest Thinkers

Etna Week (Part 3) – Etna’s Volcanic Hazards

The last of Etna Week here on Eruptions has guest blogger Boris Behncke talking about the volcanic hazards posed by Mt. Etna.

Guest Thinkers

Memories of Mount St. Helens on the 30th Anniversary (1980-2010): Part 2

The second part of Eruptions readers’ recollections of the historic May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Up Next

Guest Thinkers

Wednesday Whatzits

Kilauea can explode big time, life and the active volcano, the town of Chaiten one year on and more Indonesian volcanoes!