Sunday, November 18, 2018

The war game that could have ended the world

"Calling bullshit might be one of the most insidious forms of bullshit."— three articles on the anxieties, insecurities, and insights of the humanities, in light of the recent hoaxing, at The Point

"Even if you work 60 hours a week and sleep eight hours a night, that leaves you 52 hours a week—a full seven hours a day—to do other things"— how a time audit can help academics


Kim and Kanye hire private firefighters

Podcast discussions with philosophers, economists, and others interested in altruism— at 80,000 Hours

The war game that could have ended the world BBC





The burden of air pollution rests disproportionately on the shoulders of poorer Australians. This report shows 90% of polluting facilities reported in the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) are in postcodes with low-middle weekly household incomes.

Why Does This Historian Say He Got Christianity Wrong? – HillFaith: Good News for Congressional Staff.

"Compacted into this very, very small amount of writing was almost everything that explains the modern world … Concepts like international law, for instance, concepts of human rights, all these kind of things—ultimately, they don’t go back to Greek philosophers; they don’t go back to Roman imperialism; they go back to Paul,” Holland claims in an Unbelievable? interview.


Automata of antiquity. Mythic Crete was the Silicon Valley of the ancient world, home of the cryptic maze, manned flight, self-guided arrows Mything Points  

Malabar no longer on the nose with house prices sky high