Each of the animals he describes — the mollusk and the medusa, the shrimp and the sea lemon, the dinoflagellate and the dead man’s fingers coral — he describes with absolute reverence for its beauty and microscopic magnificence, all the…
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“There are both intellectual and practical questions here. On the intellectual side, a major question is how the medium of email affects the communication and discussion of philosophical ideas… On the practical side… how do we approach the job of…
When you make the effort to listen and hear the other side of the story, your understanding increases and your hurt diminishes. The great Buddhist teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh offers a three-step remedy for this elemental human…
Netflix/CNET screenshot Thinking about dipping your toe into more of Netflix’s international content? French comedy Call My Agent! hosts an ever-growing list of famous actors playing themselves, from French stars to Americans like Sigourney Weaver (!) in the latter seasons.…
A special item bundle will be on sale in Pokemon Go’s in-game shop during October’s Community Day. The bundle costs 1,280 PokeCoins and includes the following items: Niantic Duskull is the star of Pokemon Go’s October Community Day event. In…
“When you realize you are mortal,” the polymathic poet, painter, journalist, novelist, and philosopher Etel Adnan (b. February 24, 1925) wrote in her sixtieth year while wresting wisdom from the mountain, “you also realize the tremendousness of the future. You…
But, as with any deal, you need to read the fine print before you buy. The main catch with this offer is that you’ll have to spring for an LTE-enabled model, which costs 0 more than the GPS-only version. And…
Philosophy is still a relatively small discipline in number of papers published per year at only(!) ~6,500 papers published in 2014 (listed in Web of Science). Note that the data don’t include books: to the extent the field still prizes…
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In his third lecture, titled “Youth and Social Action,” Dr. King presents a taxonomy of the three types of people into which the era’s youth had been “splintered” — his own superb word-choice — by the era’s social forces. It…
Thanks very much! Emily is a seventh grade student who chimed in on an earlier post where she mentioned, “I am trying to get more people to join my philosophy club, but no one wants to. They don’t want the…