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You Still Can’t Vote by Text or Tweet. Don’t Get Fooled – CNET
Many experts though still aren’t convinced voting by app or through a website is a good idea, beyond the small programs already created for disabled people, expats and military service members. We may not be …
Venues for Public Philosophy
The list, so far, includes 24 outlets. You can check it out here. If you know of others to add to it, you can mention them in the comments here, or join the PPN …
The Woman Who Saved Native Song
Music is closely intertwined with the life of every race. We understand the people better if we know their music, and we appreciate the music better if we understand the people themselves. Everywhere she went, …
Interview With “Candy Mom” Philosopher
The latest development in “things that make you think our universe is a simulation created for the entertainment of more advanced beings” is that a philosopher is being pilloried online for how she limits her …
‘The Sandman’ Renewed by Netflix For Season 2 – CNET
It isn’t a dream: Netflix fantasy series The Sandman has been renewed for season 2. It looks like fans will get to see Tom Sturridge’s Dream take on Gwendoline Christie’s Lucifer after all, in a …
How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully
Nin herself — a woman uncommonly liberated from the common traps of convention, control, and self-consciousness — took up the spiritual mechanics of this paradox in her first published book, D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional …
Reclaiming Our Human Potential in the Age of Technological “Progress”
Along the journey, the record of which endures in her almost unbearably wonderful book Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle (public library), she fell in love with Afghanistan — “it’s a pity brainwashing …
VR in a Car: Holoride Launches Today. I Tested It and Didn’t Lose My Lunch – CNET
So when the driver turned, my ship turned. And it was synced in a way that, thankfully, meant my stomach didn’t turn. Holoride CEO and co-founder Nils Wollny spoke with me about how the software …
Thomas Burrus (1984-2022)
Thomas Burrus, instructor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina Aiken, has died. (The following memorial notice is by Jacob Nelson, who had been a student of Burrus’s, and recalls him as a brilliant …
Beethoven and the Art of Amends
We are told that the best proof of sincere contrition is to acknowledge our faults; and this is what I wish to do. Let us now draw a veil over the whole affair, learning one …