Bigger's not better: Kathryn Greiner: The New Normal – what will it be like?

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

— Joan Didion in Slouching towards Bethlehem (1968)

HARD WORK, spotlights the CHARACTER of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, some don't turn up at all.

- Sam Ewing

CHANGE: Reconfiguring The Modern Office: Making The Shift To Virtual Long Term. Bad news for commercial real estate.

The world is turbulent and tragic, while philosophers are cool and rational. Their field would gain so much if they could be Moved 

Bigger's not better, locals say: Bronte surf club revamp makes waves

Waverley Council wants to upgrade the Bronte Surf Lifesaving Club. But surfers say the proposed building looks too large and locals "don't need another Bondi".

Maverick Philosopher: The Most Boring Philosophers

via My Favouritee Premier's wife ... Kathryn was always a woman with a heart
MEMO to ScoMo: 70 is not "elderly", bristles Kathryn Greiner (AO) as she stares down the barrel of the "new normal''.
The chair of the NSW Government's Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing and the CRC Longevity Project recognises nothing is the same right now, and nor will it be in the future when Australia, and in fact the world, gets to the other side of COVID-19.
"Social change is a pendulum that swings out," she says. "This time it has swung way out, causing great disruption to our lives.

Kathryn Greiner: The New Normal – what will it be like?

Robert A. Wilson (Western Australia) reviews Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds(Oxford), by Eva Federe Kittay.

Bliss (Lehigh) reviews Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei: From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi (SUNY), by Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel

“That the analytic philosophy we have ended up with exists as a ‘sociological’ phenomenon is a very important fact about where academic philosophy has been since, and still is today” — Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities) on the various “deaths” analytic philosophy has undergone

• Some non-human animals can do math — Erik Nelson (Dalhousie) on what implications this may have for our understanding and treatment of them
• They “can distort as much as they illuminate” — James Wilson (UCL) offers a thoughtful set of critiques of thought experiments in moral philosophy
• A series of interviews with Swedish philosophers about the pandemic and how it relates to philosophy — interviewees include Torbjörn Tännsjö, Åsa Wikforss, and (soon) others
• “All the things I learned in school were crap. Some of it might have been true some of it false but who could tell? You just have to start from scratch.” — Descartes’ Meditations and many other philosophical works described with one-syllable words only
• Meet the cousin of security theater: “public health theater,” or the deployment of “props for perpetuating the illusion that hazardous conditions are under control” — and beware of violations of the “prime pandemic policy rule,” argues Evan Selinger (RIT)
• The uniformity illusion — “a visual illusion that shows that detailed peripheral visual experience is partially based on a reconstruction of reality” (via Tom Breed)