Apart from the nagging past — film, sex and London — I have never been happier than last week. I look up and see the deep azure sea outside my window in the February sun, and today I saw my…
The two companies will unveil a jointly developed car on April 4 at 9 p.m. PT. Specifically, Gazoo Racing will be running the show on the Toyota side of things, which is pretty good evidence this is a new sports…
To be human is to live suspended between the scale of snails and the scale of stars, confined by our creaturely limitations but not doomed by them — we have, after all, transcended them to compose the Benedictus and eradicate…
Afrog This price probably won’t last long — I expect the coupon to expire first, though the promo code should work until April 12. If the coupon disappears from the product page, the promo code on its own will net…
The Google Wi-Fi mesh router. Josh Miller/CNET “We want to make it easier to manage all of your devices in one place, so we’ve migrated Wi-Fi functionality into the Google Home app,” a Google spokesperson said. “Nest Wifi has always…
What reasons would there be to create it? It might be a possible entry point for non-philosophers to engage with philosophy; being clued into who among today’s philosophers apparently share your views might pique your interest enough to explore their…
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now,” Jack Kerouac half-resolved, half-instructed an epoch later in a beautiful letter to his first wife and lifelong friend. In 1978, drawing on a jarring real-life…
James Martin/CNET Amazon gave its employees a sense of when they’d be returning to offices in an internal memo this week, as previously reported by CNBC. As coronavirus vaccines become more widely available, it’ll bring people back “through the summer,”…
Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. Discussion welcome. M. C. Hammer named inaugural winner of the…
HBO Max launched with almost the full catalog of Studio Ghibli animated movies, streaming in the US for the first time. Angela Lang/CNET Beyond those first-run Warner Bros. movies, HBO Max has padded itself with more content than you’ll find…
All 36 faculty in the Departments of Cognitive Science and Psychology were to “compete” to be among the 26 or so who would retain their positions, Professor Sutton explains, in a process run largely by medical school administrators (the Departments…
Stein notes that the Victorians found their romantic home in Italy, Americans found theirs in Spain in the first half of the nineteenth century and in England in the second, and her own generation found it in Paris. Prefiguring Angelou’s…