HBO Max launched with almost the full catalog of Studio Ghibli animated movies, streaming in the US for the first time. Angela Lang/CNET Beyond those first-run Warner Bros. movies, HBO Max has padded itself with more content than you’ll find…
All 36 faculty in the Departments of Cognitive Science and Psychology were to “compete” to be among the 26 or so who would retain their positions, Professor Sutton explains, in a process run largely by medical school administrators (the Departments…
Stein notes that the Victorians found their romantic home in Italy, Americans found theirs in Spain in the first half of the nineteenth century and in England in the second, and her own generation found it in Paris. Prefiguring Angelou’s…
The Advisory Council was created in January by President Biden’s “Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” It “will provide advice and recommendations to the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the White…
Checkout with Crypto is the new payment option available for PayPal customers when shopping online. Users can select their cryptocurrency when checking out and they’ll see the current conversion rate to fiat currency such as US dollars, euros or British…
[Note: the following post was mistakenly based on an outdated article from November, 2020. For newer information about what is happening at Guilford College, see the comments on this post, below. Thanks, commenters!] Carol Moore, the interim president of Guilford…
While philosophers have been and continue to be involved in NSF-funded projects, this new emphasis on ethics suggests a possible increase in opportunities for philosophers working in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, and related areas to…
Twitter has yet to follow Facebook’s move. On Sunday Maduro tweeted instructions to his 3.8 million followers, directing them to another Facebook page on which to watch his videos. YURI CORTEZ/Getty These claims have been questioned and contested by doctors…
Outside everything was still.Even the dogs were quiet, and the cows looked like prehistoric creatures, their noses streaming smoke. Awestruck with the natural poetry and the mythic feeling-tone of the luminous spectacle, Gassendi named what he saw Aurora borealis —…
