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Clubhouse launched on iOS in March 2020. Getty Images But you may have to wait awhile before you can jump into one of the chats; the company plans to maintain the invite and waitlist system to keep things from growing…
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Hummingbirds are specially equipped to perform these feats. In most birds, 15 to 25 percent of the body is given over to flying muscles. In a hummingbird’s body, flight muscles account for 35 percent. An enormous heart constitutes up to…
It also asked, “If you were to give advice to someone who was about to teach their first online philosophy class, what would it be?” Here are some of the responses (some of which have been lightly edited): A majority…
This was the only chair to give me any real trouble during assembly. During unpacking, I thought the five-arm base had arrived broken, as one arm was cut in half. Turns out you have to manually add the missing joint.…
You can learn more about Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education here. Clyde Meikle In 2009, a group of Wesleyan undergraduates, with supportive faculty, created the Center for Prison Education (CPE) and began a pilot offering Wesleyan courses for credit in…
Professor Stuart works in philosophy of science, particularly empirically-informed epistemology of science, as well as the use of thought experiments and imagination in scientific reasoning. You can learn more about his research here. Michael Stuart, currently a fellow at the…
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Figure 2 – Network of STEM journals citing philosophy of science journals (1980-2018) The visibility of philosophers of science in other sciences In a recently published paper in Synthese (preprint available here), we tried to shed light on this issue…