I hear revenge is a dish best served cold, so does that make it a prepared meal?
Our hibernation in these recent strange months may have caused us to form some unusual habits; perhaps ensuring only our upper body need to satisfy work attire standards or ensuring that our dogs are vigorously walked past local cafes at least twice a day. Our minds may also have wandered during this time to ponder important questions during a Zoom meeting, such as:
Does that beautiful furniture in my junior colleague’s home office really belong to her?
Has she read all of those neatly piled literary classics on the shelf behind her head?
Surely that sweeping ocean view is a virtual background?
Is that floral shirt under her blazer a pyjama top?
Australasian philosophers on the pandemic — a bibliography of recent public-facing work
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TIME ALWAYS CATCHES UP: Before COVID-19, our politicians had more than a decade in which there was almost no issue they were unwilling to leave to the future to solve.
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A Philosophy & COVID-19 Bibliography
Jef Delvaux, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at York University, has undertaken the project of putting together a bibliography of writings by philosophers about the COVID-19 pandemic and related issues. (more…)
To add material to the bibliography, contact Mr. Delvaux at jozefdelvaux@gmail.com or via Twitter, where his handle is @JefDelvaux.
The bibliography is below. You can also access it directly here.
Humans are natural conformists” and because of this, “individuality, each nugget of genuine idiosyncrasy that is successfully maintained, is a precious achievement worth defending” — Don Ross (Cork) interviewed on the philosophy of economics, individualisms, minds, and more
The government is undertaking a review of capital gains tax, but it’s my suggestion that very few people seem to have much understanding of why
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Researchers created a test to determine which masks are the least effective - CNN – “…a group of researchers at Duke University created a simple technique to analyze the effectiveness of various types of masks which have become a critical component in stopping the spread of the virus. The quest began when a professor at Duke’s School of Medicine was assisting a local group buy masks in bulk to distribute to community members in need. The professor wanted to make sure the group purchased masks that were actually effective. In the study published Friday, researchers with Duke’s physics department demonstrated the use of a simple method that uses a laser beam and cell phone to evaluate the efficiency of masks by studying the transmission of respiratory droplets during regular speech…Researchers tested 14 commonly available masks including a professionally fitted N95 mask, usually reserved for health care workers. First the test was performed with a speaker talking without wearing a mask. Then they did it again while a speaker was wearing a mask. Each mask was tested 10 times. The most effective mask was the fitted N95. Three-layer surgical masks and cotton masks, which many people have been making at home, also performed well…”