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  • Aphorism 25Mar2023

    If I am willing to be open to the uncertainty of being in the lifeworld alongside all these others also struggling toward liberation, I must never forget: Evolution is neither preservation of the status quo nor conservation of the familiar;… Continue reading

    Aphorism 25Mar2023

  • Spiders fly hundreads of miles on earth’s electric field

    Every day, around 40,000 thunderstorms crackle around the world, collectively turning Earth’s atmosphere into a giant electrical circuit. The upper reaches of the atmosphere have a positive charge, and the planet’s surface has a negative one… Ballooning spiders operate within… Continue reading

    Spiders fly hundreads of miles on earth’s electric field

  • Variation in the hominid rhizome

    New report out on a hybrid hominin from 90000 years ago whose mother was Neanderthal and whose father was Denisovan. apple.news/AgSsUivGbS5yWPq54mnX_-Q Continue reading

  • ‘You must change your life’ or ‘You must change life’?

    Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: This is the first set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). * ‘You must change your life,’ writes Peter Sloterdijk in his eponymous book of philosophy. His… Continue reading

    ‘You must change your life’ or ‘You must change life’?

  • Sometimes It Pays to Be a Weakling | Science/AAAS | News

    Sometimes it’s better not to be the best. Take rams. Those with bigger horns get the girl more often—but they also die younger… The tradeoff helps explain a long-standing puzzle about why the best genes for mating don’t take over…… Continue reading

  • Asking Questions Beyond Thinking

    Many who #meditate are surprised by the #etymology of #Mantra. Deepen your practice by embracing #uncertainty. goo.gl/5NhNZ — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) February 18, 2013 “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual… Continue reading

  • Many Rivers, One Foot, No Certainty

    “One can, therefore, step twice, and even innumerable times, into the same river, if the river is located by its slope, its banks, its direction, its flow, as it is by any discriminating mind-body; but one never steps twice into… Continue reading

  • Thinking Beyond Yourself

    “The time [being 36 yrs old] is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. ― C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation Continue reading

  • Shake It Up « Lateral Love Australia

    Thanks to Lateral Love Australia for posting this wonderful quote from Ghandi.  Shake It Up « Lateral Love Australia. Continue reading

  • Philosophizing & Inspiration

    Because I spend so much time being concerned that philosophizing as a way of life is about helping folks figure out how to live better lives, many professional philosophers do not think I am a “philosopher.” I am cool with… Continue reading

  • Hermeticism and the Anthropic Principle of Evolution « Footnotes 2 Plato

    In The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Karl Popper famously (or infamously, as far as Hegelians are concerned) attacked Hegel for his bewitching apriorism and supposed distain for empirical science, going so far as to blame his Platonically inspired “mystery… Continue reading

  • Kentucky’s GOP lawmakers question standards for teaching evolution in schools – KansasCity.com

    One wonders when it will ever end. “I think we are very committed to being able to take Kentucky students and put them on a report card beside students across the nation,” Givens said. “We’re simply saying to the ACT… Continue reading