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I have not read an Elena Ferrante novel, but I have seen S1 of My Brilliant Friend ,  and I have read a Natalia Ginzburg novel,  so I'm ...

I'm seeing more along the lines of whatever-happened-to-trusting-the-experts. Tells you about my rabbit-holes. Do I believe the experts...

Since people had time to sit around and think about stuff, they have wondered how they should live, and what a "good life" is. Not...

Towards the end of Cixin Liu's Death's End, someone in a planet far, far, away sees that the Trisolarian system was destroyed, and w...

The Fermi Paradox is the difference between the supposed number of planets supporting intelligent life that there should be in the vastness ...

A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-1960 by Nikhil Krishnan is a history of a way of doing philosophy that was admired ...

I propose the Lockdown Policy Test. A policy supported or promoted by anyone who also supported lockdowns, masks, social distancing, the Rul...

Remember that saying Good times elect weak leaders; weak leaders make bad times; bad times elect strong leaders; strong leaders make good ti...

What is jazz, and why does it matter? Can we define jazz in such a way that it does matter if something is or is not jazz? That's effe...

It's probably just my echo chamber, but I've seen a number of YT's on scientific fraud recently. This does not shake my faith in...

This book is about using the power of habit to change your lousy diet, infrequent exercise, your weight, and many other such things. The sec...

I know what you're thinking. What does he get up to that stops him posting promptly and prolifically? I wish it had something to do with...

In the previous post, I suggested that Western Philosophy is an attitude . It does not accept authority, and reserves the right to examine a...

My 7 philosophy books for beginners, along with the back-up reading, is pretty hardcore. It's also definitely Dead White European Male, ...

Western Philosophy is a group of thinkers, problems and attitudes: it divides into three main groups: the pre-Christian, Christian, and post...

Okay. The title is silly. But I took it from a YT video . So there's that. It's by an American PhD who has since left the academic w...

Here's a nice video I stumbled across, about the perennial question of why ET hasn't visited us yet. Here's another kind of a...

Apparently Ed Witten has abandoned all rational thought about the fundamentals of the Universe and embraced a version of gasp! the Anthropic...

Off in another part of my thoughts, which have been on hold for a while, I have been trying to work out some ideas on the philosophy of math...

I made the mistake of re-reading a book about the Situationists recently ( The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Time...