Suggestions for such re-imagining welcome. Or perhaps we should abolish pre-publication peer review? Last month we had a very active post with readers submitting their “Philosophy Journal Horror Stories.” The following story, recounted by Nathan Salmon (UCSB), fits well with…
The upcoming spring announcements are rumored to focus on the iPad’s speed and its screens. Apple’s expected to upgrade the chips powering its iPads and to introduce a new screen technology called mini-LED, which display makers say offers improved power efficiency…
There are plenty of clever touches that don’t come through in pictures, too. LEDs aren’t limited to the headlights and taillights, for example. Each side of the car has three small projectors built in, which can greet passengers with messages…
Nintendo’s 3DS lineup continued to evolve and the Switch might do the same. Sarah Tew/CNET Even though the original Nintendo Switch arrived in 2017, there have been some evolutions since then. The more affordable, handheld-only Switch Lite arrived last fall,…
ABC/Josh Vertucci “The two of us were able to reach a private agreement to address any of Cassie’s concerns,” Underwood told TMZ at the time. “I do not believe Cassie did anything wrong in filing for the restraining orders and…
Walt Whitman, who considered trees the profoundest teachers in how to best be human, remembered the woman he loved and respected above all others as that rare person who was “entirely herself; as simple as nature; true, honest; beautiful as…
Complement with Ruefle on why we read and her stunning color spectrum of sadness, then revisit Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Hymn to Time” and physicist Brian Greene’s Rilkean reflection on filling our finitude with meaning. If, as they say, poetry…
How many tenure track positions in philosophy were advertised during the 2020-2021 job market season? Related: Much Fewer Academic Philosophy Jobs Advertised This Season Second, according to a report from Marcus Arvan (Tampa), who regularly tracks this information, there were just…
“Google’s conduct would not have misled all reasonable users in the classes identified; but Google’s conduct misled or was likely to mislead some reasonable users within the particular classes identified,” he ruled. Angela Lang/CNET Subscribe to CNET Now for the…
Relatedly, Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham), in his continued look into the history of the APA, recently came across statements from the organization’s Board of Officers from 40 years ago about the job prospects for new PhDs in philosophy. The 1979 statement,…
Kay Rosen, “Echoes” A study of papers published in academic science journals on the topic of “cave science” found that “papers containing higher proportions of jargon in their titles and abstracts were cited less frequently by other researchers.” If we…
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