Keith Haring on Art, the Diversity of Human Experience, and What Makes Us Who We Are
[…] “Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world,” artist Egon Schiele wrote in…
Job Placement Numbers for the 2020-21 Season (updated)
UPDATE 2: Professor Lassiter has agreed to keep an eye on changes at PhilJobs and provide an…
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is the sequel The Clone Wars deserves – CNET
Fans will be delighted at the show’s exploration of the universe’s lore and changing mechanics as…
Types of __________ Papers
Political Theory (by Samuel Bagg): Metaethics (by Jordan Walters) UPDATE: Some more… Wittgenstein (by @illocutie) Last week,…
Habermas Declines Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Last week, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas was declared the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award “Cultural Personality…
Polestar 2 EV can now use your phone as a Digital Key – Roadshow
Daniel Golson/Roadshow When an authorized phone is within about an arm’s reach of the car, the…
Tracing the Roots of the Big Apple: The Mysterious Origins of the World’s Most Famous City Moniker
Five years after he first began using the term, Fitz Gerald half-answered. There were then, as…
May the 4th: Star Wars lightsaber colors from across the galaxy decoded – CNET
The Jedi Temple Guards seen in The Clone Wars wield lightsaber pikes with twin yellow blades….
Waking Up: David Whyte on the Power of Poetry and Silence as Portal to Presence
His essay on silence in Consolations harmonizes this sentiment: Drawing on his superb collection of short…
Journal of Applied Philosophy Awards Best Article Prize
The winners of the 2020 prize are Helen Beebee (Manchester) and Alex Kaiserman (Oxford) for their essay…
What Predicts Professional Philosophers’ Views? (updated)
UPDATE: There’s an ungated version here, and supplemental materials (including more data than that which is…
The Woman Who Saved the Hawks: Redeeming an Overlooked Pioneer of Conservation
On the eve of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Rosalie Edge, in her dress and…
Teaching Philosophy Online: A Survey
Like many departments around the country, mine is discussing which policies (if any) we should adopt…
23 best films on Amazon Prime Video – CNET
A teen comedy-horror-thriller with a dash of social commentary. What a combo! Get Duked! follows three…
Love and Symmetry: Poet A. Van Jordan Imagines the Undelivered Feynman Lecture About the Mystery Lying Between Scientific Truth and Human Meaning
Jordan writes: You cannot solve for the use of one side of the body over the…
Verizon outage takes down some wireless services in Southern California – CNET
Verizon customers across Southern California have complained of an hours-long outage taking out their mobile service…
“Penned Up and Forced to Listen”: On the Value of In-Person Conferences
This seems as if it was written for our era, in which an important problem of…
In iOS 14.5, Apple adds new voices to make Siri sound more like you – CNET
Siri, Apple’s voice assistant on more than 1 billion iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watch models, has had a…
Philosophers Among New NHC Fellows
They (and their projects) are: The National Humanities Center (NHC) has announced its class of residential…
Stowaway review: Netflix’s airless astronaut drama feels low gravity – CNET
This sets the tone for Stowaway. It’s subtle. It’s sparse. The camerawork is unhurried. The shots…
Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
To bridge Laing’s two questions, one must somehow reconcile these two temporal models: linear time, which…
Surprise: There’s Philosophy About That
“No thanks.” “Do I know you?” a faster gait pepper spray or perhaps some examples of…
Honda wants to kiss the engine goodbye by 2040, plans new EV platform – Roadshow
The specific goals call for Honda to ramp up its share of EV and fuel-cell vehicles…
Journal of Controversial Ideas Publishes Inaugural Issue
You can read their whole editorial here. Twenty years ago, most academic journals were available only…
Database of Prospective Candidates for Diversity-Related Fellowships & Post Docs
The more philosophers are in this database… the more hires philosophy departments can make through this….
Discovery Plus launches ‘slow TV’ nature videos to Zen out for Earth Day – CNET
Discovery Immersions, a new package of “slow TV” nature programming that Discovery Plus launched Thursday for Earth…
Nature as Worship: Ornithologist J. Drew Lanham on the Spirituality of Science and the Wonder of the Wilderness
For all those years of running from anything resembling religion and all the scientific training that…
Our Cosmic Humanity: Astronomer Jill Tarter Reads Nobel-Winning Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska
As long as there’s neither hide nor hairOf other grasses graced by other windsOr other treetops…
Jargon for Trouble (guest post by Maximilian Noichl)
Martínez and Mammola seem to favor the second explanation. At the moment I don’t think we can…
Best cordless vacuum for 2021: Bissell, Hoover, Moosoo, Shark, Dyson and more – CNET
Rice from low-pile Hoover Linx Hoover OnePwr Blade Max Sand from hardwood I certainly like how…