That ineffable essence is what Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817–May 6, 1862) — who saw nature as a form of prayer — articulated with uncommon lucidity and splendor of sentiment in the final pages of Walden (public library |…
Kathleen Kingsbury, who became the paper’s Opinion Editor in January, has instituted changes in that section apparently aimed at updating and simplifying its organization and format. This involved, for example, replacing the “op-ed” label with “guest essay,” and getting rid…
Andrew Hoyle/CNET Until Apple’s marquee event in the fall, the name of the upcoming iPhone family is anyone’s guess. Many are wondering: Will the company stick to a sequential naming scheme this year? Here at CNET, we’ve been referring to the…
The first two problems are resultant from internal pressures, the latter a mix of internal and external. However, there is no successor paradigm in a position to really take advantage of this weakness, and so the field listlessly drifts on,…
Deborah Jaffe/Getty Several closely followed mortgage refinance rates moved higher today. Both 15-year fixed and 30-year fixed refinances saw their mean rates go up. At the same time, average rates for 10-year fixed refinances also moved up. Refinance interest rates…
The pink iMac, unveiled at Apple’s Spring Loaded event in April. @PengPhones And second, Apple just released a new purple color option for the iPhone 12, another bone thrown to the ~aesthetic~ crowd. In fact, Apple also unveiled a redesigned…
“I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” Harry said. Instagram He called the years between ages 23 and…
The de Gruyter Lecture is intended “to promote and foster the Kantian legacy” in a way that is “open to a broad approach to Kantian philosophy across the philosophical disciplines.” The award includes a ,500 honorarium plus travel expenses. The…
“Sub-6GHz is what the industry requires, for good reasons,” Vanghi said. “Most of the applications … even the ones that relate to robots and control, those are not high volume data. … Those require low latency, [but] they certainly don’t…
The progressive philosopher, abolitionist, education reformer, and women’s rights advocate Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799–March 4, 1888) developed his ideas about human flourishing and social harmony by observing and reflecting on the processes, phenomena, and pleasures of the natural world…
Professor Heath won the prize, which includes CA,000 (approximately ,000), for his book, The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State (Oxford University Press, 2020). The Donner Prize “encourages and celebrates excellence in public policy writing by Canadians and…
The Lakatos Award is given annually for “an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, broadly construed, in the form of a book published in English during the previous five years.” It includes a £10,000 (approximately ,620) prize. Explaining Cancer is praised by…