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Monthly Archives: January 2016
ISIS Destroys Iraq’s Oldest Christian Monastery
Another massive travesty that will be forgotten in exactly 3 days time: ERBIL, Iraqi – Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been … Continue reading
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RIP: Glenn Frey
Man… They’re dropping like flies lately. Glenn Frey at age 67. I remember when, back in probably the early ’90s, The Eagles embarked on what was, arguably, the first of the Tours For $$ Reunions (“Hell Freezes Over”), charging the … Continue reading
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
This past weekend, I stumbled across this film playing, which I had always written off as a late night, cheese-o-rama, gross-out horror film, but while dated, is surprisingly good as one of the first ‘young-carefree-couples-get-stalked-by-insane-murderer’ films, later turned into the … Continue reading
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Consciousness Is Not Mysterious?
Michael Graziano, who is very much in Camp Dennett, writes that “Consciousness Is Not Mysterious“. Of the Hard Problem of consciousness, Graziano writes: The brain constructs inaccurate models of the world. To understand consciousness scientifically, once again it’s necessary for … Continue reading
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Davos Boss Warns Refugee Crisis Could Be Precursor to Something Much Bigger
From Bloomberg News: As the crash in commodities prices spreads economic woe across the developing world, Europe could face a wave of migration that will eclipse today’s refugee crisis, says Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. “Look … Continue reading
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Trump & Authoritarianism
A quant-oriented, UMASS, poli-sci guy has one of the rare, valuable, insightful analyses of the Mein Trumpf phenomenon. “The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether You’re a Trump Supporter” is the title of Matthew MacWilliams’ piece in Politico: If I … Continue reading
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‘Refugee’ Crisis™ => Gender Imbalances
One angle of the ‘Refugee’ Crisis™ that Europe hasn’t yet contemplated is the effect on gender imbalance, and the sociological disruptions that can ensue: Professor Valerie Hudson, a Texas A&M University professor, said gender imbalances could cause serious problems in … Continue reading
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Feds Spend $406,875 Texting Latino Men To Exercise
From Fox News: The National Institutes of Health is spending more than $400,000 sending text messages to Latino men to encourage them to exercise. The University of California, San Diego is conducting the study, which is attempting to employ the … Continue reading
Gettin’ Meta With Martin
Given that MLK himself plagiarized as a graduate student, what an appropriate way for Mr. Whitaker to celebrate the modern day martyr: A history professor at Arizona State University who was demoted last year following an inquiry into plagiarism accusations … Continue reading
Reflections on Bernard Williams
Nakul Krishna has a well written piece on the late, great, moral philosopher Bernard Williams, one of the giants of 20th century moral philosophy, as told through the lens of his (Krishna’s) own experience as a philosophy grad student: [Morality: … Continue reading
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