Brian Penrose (1957-2021)
Brian loved the AEP programme. He took a personal interest in every applicant and spent many…
Final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC reveal: Start time, how to watch and what to expect – CNET
CNET Culture Nintendo The final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate presentation airs Tuesday, Oct. 5. The stream…
Guide to Graduate Programs in Philosophy Based on Job Placement and Student Experience (guest post)
Comparing placement rates across different AOS categories, Value Theory has the highest permanent academic placement rate…
Using “Distant Reading” to Complement Close Reading
Mark Alfano, associate professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, who studies Nietzsche, shares a technique, called…
Missing iPhone 13 features that should have been on Apple’s new phones – CNET
Apple’s iPhone 13 and 13 Pro certainly have a lot to offer over their predecessors: longer…
Broken Tulips: How a Virus Gave the World’s Most Prized Flower Its Beauty
In 1634, Rembrandt painted his wife, Saskia, as Flora — the Roman goddess of flowers and…
Rolls-Royce Boat Tail struts its uber-opulence at Villa d’Este – Roadshow
One of this Boat Tail’s individual features is the color. The client’s favorite color is blue,…
Windows 11 is coming, so does that mean I should wait to buy a new laptop? – CNET
Microsoft Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft demos new Windows 11 Microsoft further says PC makers including…
How Does This Year’s Academic Philosophy Job Market Look?
See The Philosophers’ Cocoon for more detailed information from Professor Arvan. He notes that the number…
An Empirical Approach to the Analytic-Continental Divide
They first identify “indicator words” that tend to correlate with (but, they acknowledge, do not guarantee)…
Project on Kantian Democracy Wins $1.38 Million Grant
The Kantian Foundations of Democracy aims to provide the first large scale analysis of the theory…
Venom: Let There Be Carnage review – Sometimes the sequel is WAY better – CNET
It’s rare for a sequel to outperform the original, but Venom: Let There Be Carnage does…
A Process for the Transfer of Energy and Feeling: George Saunders on the Key to Great Storytelling
The preferred, most efficient, highest-order form of energy transfer (the premier way for a scene to…
The “Practical Inertia” of Racism in Philosophy
[Hulda Guzman, “‘come dance’ asked nature kindly”] That’s Alexus McLeod, professor of philosophy and Asian and…
Catastrophic floods on Mars carved some of the planet’s deepest valleys – CNET
Morgan is co-author of a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature that explains how ancient…
Greene from UCL to UCSB
She takes up her new position in UCSB’s Department of Philosophy in the fall of 2020….
Best weighted blanket for 2021 – CNET
The very best part? Luna blankets are significantly less expensive than all the other blankets in…
Faculty at Rhodes College Urge Cancellation of Online Talk by Peter Singer
Professor Singer’s longstanding advancement of philosophical arguments that presume the inferiority of many disabled lives is…
September 28, 1951: Alan Turing, the World’s First Digital Music, and the Poetry of Possibility
There is poetry in Turing’s insight, poetry and cultural defiance, evocative of the protestation Ada Lovelace…
Gold rush! First-time metal-detector user uncovers 6th century golden hoard – CNET
“[The first piece found] was full of scratches and covered in mud,” he said, according to…
Advising Software Says Philosophy Majors Have Two Career Options
That this career assessment software, which boasts about its accuracy, would list just two options here—and…
Our very first look at The Last of Us TV show on HBO – CNET
Now, thanks to Neil Druckmann, the director of The Last of Us video game series, we…
Love, Death, and Whitman: Poet Mark Doty on the Paradox of Desire and the Courage to Love Against the Certitude of Loss
Love and death come to us on common terms — unbidden and total, impervious to protest,…
Missed Netflix’s Tudum fan event? See the big trailers and video clips here – CNET
Red Notice leads Netflix’s upcoming star-studded titles. Netflix Netflix dominates the streaming world as the biggest…
Pokemon Go October 2021 events: Raids, Zarude, Halloween and more – CNET
Niantic Oct. 12 Zarude Secrets of the Jungle event Oct. 1-12 October Research Breakthrough encounter: Yamask…
Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are
Optimal hippocampal health appears to be — like the optimal experience of life itself — a…
Evidence for a Probabilistic Turn in Philosophy (guest post)
First, we classified the formal methods used in the papers as falling into a number of…
Renzo to Head KCL’s Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law
Professor Renzo, previously a professor of Politics, Law, and Philosophy at KCL and the acting director…
Best TV for 2021 – CNET
Now playing: Watch this: LG G1 TV review: Can OLED picture quality get even better? Currently…
Letter Protesting Midwestern State University’s Treatment of Nathan Jun
The letter calls upon Midwestern State University to “publicly acknowledge and apologize for its horrendous treatment…