In this passage from Modern Nature, Jarman does for the night sky what Rachel Carson did a generation earlier for the ocean as a lens on the meaning of life. Complement it with the great nature writer Henry Beston —…
In the end, Lotus hopes to have one heck of a vehicle portfolio on sale by the time the brand celebrates its 80th birthday in 2028, but the marque will be a far cry from Colin Chapman’s original company born…
Robin Zheng, currently assistant professor of philosophy at Yale-National University of Singapore, has accepted an offer of a permanent position in philosophy at the University of Glasgow. She takes up her new position as lecturer at Glasgow in January, 2022.…
Cautioning against the common conflation of two distinct concepts — “solving the problem” and “correctly formulating the problem” — he observes: It is a truism that the questions we ask shape the answers we find. It is, also, a truth.…
Yesterday, Inside Higher Ed published an article about this issue. The article confirms that the University of California (UC) system has preemptively solved this out-of-state issue of their students. The UC solution sounds relatively simple: temporarily amend residency guidelines to…
(from “Qualia” by Michael Tye) Some of the results are below. Other examples are posted on his twitter-feed: @MaxNoichl. (from “Imre Lakatos” by Alan Musgrave and Charles Pidgen) I then selected some haiku that I particularly liked, and ran them…
He writes: Looking back, the interviews that I think I botched in recent years were ones where I felt like I was asking for the favor of getting me out of academia. That’s a mistake. You have to constantly remember…
Even though it isn’t precisely the same as our home — its lakes are filled with methane and rain would probably burn our skin — Titan has proven a promising arena to seek out signs of extraterrestrial life. NASA/JPL-Caltech Unlock…
Here’s a description of the project: Michael C. Baumgartner, professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen, has been awarded a NOK12,000,000 (approximately .4 million) grant from the Research Council of Norway to support his project, “Advancing Causal Modeling with…
So if you’re on the hunt for the best cheap security camera or two to create a video surveillance system, here’s my curated list of the top home security cameras priced under 0. Each camera on this list varies in…
There is a world in which imagining the future — that capacity for mental time-travel essential for our humanity — “is no more possible than seeing colors beyond violet,” and so every experience is absolute and eternal to those undergoing…
The upgraded Spyra Two offers 22 semiautomatic water blasts per charge but is less likely to leak, CNET’s Logan Moy says. It comes with an effective range of 30 feet. Like the original, the SpyraTwo is battery-powered and has an…