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  • The Matter of Anti-Philosophy

    Massimo Pigliucci criticizes Lawrence Krauss and the current habit of physicists who speak despairingly of philosophy. Very much worth the read. I give you here a quote he pulls from Einstein in defense of philosophizing… I fully agree with you… Continue reading

  • Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”

    A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book… Continue reading

  • The Great Chasm Twixt Rich & Poor

    I highly recommend to all my brothers & sisters of the ether that you pay some heed to this week’s issue of The Economist beginning with this piece… Disparities in wealth are less visible in Americans’ everyday lives today than they… Continue reading

  • American Self-Making: More of the Long Con

    The Long Con is the sting we pull on ourselves, where we become our own mark which might be why we are able to get others to play along: the self-con generates profound belief by others because we are so… Continue reading

  • Ancient Peoples

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A group of ancient history enthusiasts blogging about people and artefacts from all over the ancient… See on ancientpeoples.tumblr.com Continue reading

  • The Most Deadly Drug: Alcohol

    In 2009, David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist who served as chair of Britains Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs ACMD, published a paper in a medical journal that offered a provocative thesis: horseback riding, he wrote, was more dangerous than… Continue reading

  • The War that Never Ends: Thucydides & Plato

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  • I’ve met Jack Caputo a number of times. Great guy. I highly recommend watching this interview. Continue reading

  • Emotions Vocabulary Chart

    Hardly exhaustive, but certainly handy.  Sheet-for-Emotions-791×1024.jpg (791×1024). Continue reading

  • A Boon of Dandelions 4

    Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that… Continue reading