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  • 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

  • James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana

    Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to… Continue reading

  • Liberation in the 21st Century « Becoming Integral

    Report on Liberation Theology in Africa from my good brother Sam Mickey over at Becoming Integral…   The good news is that those outdated ideals are changing.  As this conference in Ghana shows, young scholars and activists are taking up… Continue reading

  • I would say, “The world as seen by Boomers”…

    …rather than “Republicans” since this is about a pseudo-nostalgia with a great penchant for creative memory. However, I want to be clear that I am not committing the fallacy of “equal time.” I am a progressive leaning independent who sees… Continue reading

  • The Pointing Particle

    The Higgs boson is important in the Standard Model because it implies the existence of a Higgs field, an otherwise invisible force field which pervades the entire universe. Unlike other kinds of force field (such as an electromagnetic or gravitational… Continue reading

  • The Occupy Movement & the Politics of Educated Hope

    More reason than ever before to grok the full meaning of Control in the evolution of Society.  The notion that neoliberal capitalism has less interest in free markets than an enormous stake in the dominance of public life by corporations no… Continue reading

  • the retention pond of mindfulness

    A beloved friend of mine, Matt K., is currently working on an overview of phenomenological techniques for the online journal Purlieu. As he has worked to accomplish his scholarship, he & I have taken up many conversations concerning Husserl’s phenomenology… Continue reading

  • Speculative Realism Blog

    This looks like it could be an interesting blog to follow: SPECULATIVE HERESY I am digging this speculative realism stuff, even if it is beyond the full comprehension of my AnarchoCynical mind. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120304

    We may elucidate the will to power & even make explicit every good reason. Yet ultimately a mystery to ourselves, none shall ever explain our deepest passions. Continue reading

  • Luciano Floridi visiting Denton

    I am very pleased that CSID has brought over this very interesting thinker, Luciano Floridi:  http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Introduction.html He will be giving a couple of public lectures while here and also addressing a few classes. Here is a link for the two… Continue reading

  • Philosophizing as a Way of LIfe

    I do not believe that philosophizing is synonomous with what goes by the name of “philosophy” in the schools. The professions of scholarship, research, and instruction are outcroppings of critical philosophizing but hardly the ultimate expression. (See my Four Kinds… Continue reading