This is what I saw, now coupled with a perfect soundtrack courtesy of Joan as Police Woman: “Run for Love” from her superb new live record. In February 2018, I found myself on a friend’s fruit farm in Kauai, having…
“During landing, the rover plunges through the thin Martian atmosphere, with the heat shield first, at a speed of over 12,000 mph (about 20,000 kph),” said NASA in a landing explainer. There’s a reason NASA describes the landing process as…
Angela Lang/CNET The addition of cryptocurrency spending to Apple Pay follows an analyst report Monday suggesting Apple should launch its own cryptocurrency exchange. Since Apple Wallet is used by millions, it could generate more than billion by making the jump…
Dr. Gully’s treatment, developed in response to his two-year-old daughter’s death, included the vehement disavowal of medication. The little girl had been treated with every known drug at the time — including heavy metals like mercury, lead, and arsenic —…
The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies is a new semi-annual, multi-lingual, peer-reviewed philosophy journal. You can learn more about the journal and how to submit to it here (it is one of several projects whose pages appear on the Mana website).…
Nickolas Muray met Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) in 1931, while visiting the prominent painter, caricaturist, and art historian Miguel Covarrubias in Mexico. Muray had befriended him fifteen years earlier when the nineteen-year-old former student of Diego Rivera’s…
Gorogoa is unlike any video game you’ve ever played. With incredible level design and flawlessly tuned precision platforming, Celeste is one of the best games of its type ever released. It’s smart, charming and dense with content. See digital version…
Rescher Prize recipients are selected by a panel composed of University of Pittsburgh Philosophy faculty, History and Philosophy of Science faculty, the director of the university’s Center for Philosophy of Science, and a past winner of the award. Professor Nagel’s…
Mr. Macron — who had shown little interest in these matters in the past but has been courting the right ahead of elections next year — jumped in last June, when he blamed universities for encouraging the “ethnicization of the…
In a 2015 paper, Dennis Earl, professor of philosophy at Coastal Carolina University writes: I learned of Professor Earl’s idea from a recent discussion on social media in which several philosophers said they used it. Have you? How has it…