This is a dinner party in book form, although with topics such as torture, group agency, hate speech, and the afterlife, it’s not for the absent-minded. Source: www.popmatters.com Philosophizing via podcast, youtube, blogging, e-books, books… however philosophy can get beyond… Continue reading

While online smartphone games are all the rage, a new board game in designing a traditional Japanese-style rock garden is showing there is still a market for old-fashioned fun. Source: ajw.asahi.com Continue reading

An experiment not much bigger than a tabletop, using ultra-cold metal plates, could serve up a cosmic feast. It could give us a glimpse of quantum gravity and so lead to a “theory of everything“: one that unites the laws of quantum… Continue reading

Scientists are puzzled by a new image taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which found two bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. The spots are noticeably brighter than other parts of the surface, which looks to be rocky and pockmarked.… Continue reading

Feeling a bit nippy? For now you’ll have to stick to your hat and scarf to warm up, but one day some antifreeze proteins from a fish or a tick might do the trick. In a preliminary study published Wednesday… Continue reading

Montaigne, the great French writer, said that “we must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude”. Source: www.linkedin.com Continue reading

The most thunderstruck I’ve ever been by art was before the 13,000-year-old cave paintings of mammals in Niaux, France. Source: www.vulture.com Continue reading

Originally posted on coromandal: The elephant’s trunk isn’t the elephant and the elephant isn’t tree-like; these misapprehensions are the pitfalls of specialization. To really know the elephant must be divine, and will require knowing more than one body part. It’s the… Continue reading

As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation about sex. A 46-year-old pregnant woman had visited his… Continue reading

Written by Ben Blake Brewing espresso seems like a pretty straightforward process, but there are actually quite a few variables that we’re looking to control and balance at one time in order to get… Source: home.lamarzoccousa.com At B – M… Continue reading

Without addressing exploitation, social harmony will remain elusive. Source: www.truth-out.org Continue reading

Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: You can come to the desert, you can live here, but you cannot stay here. We knew this when we arrived in Joshua Tree, yet I doubt we knew why. Yesterday, Aleksandra found a beautiful skull… Continue reading

Irish poet William Butler Yeats is perhaps the most well-known member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the influential secret magical society which originated in the late 19th century (and still exists in a number of forms today).… Continue reading