Uber’s food-delivery growth fails to offset rideshare decline Financial Times
NONE OF THESE TESTS IS AS GOOD AS PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE: Large-scale study finds genetic testing technology falsely detects very rare variants.
Thieves Nationwide Are Slithering Under Cars, Swiping Catalytic Converters New York Times (David L). Surprised this is happening only now. They have platinum in them.
Elon Musk wants clean power. But Tesla’s carrying bitcoin’s dirty baggage Reuters
Bitcoin consumes ‘more electricity than Argentina’BBC
Nouriel Roubini: bitcoin is not a hedge against tail risk Financial Times
How to conduct a second-round (“on-campus”) interview during a pandemic — Sally Scholz (Villanova) has some suggestions
“To observe the duty to complain, we need skills of complaining well” — Kathryn Norlock (Trent) on the ethics of complaining
How should “the morally conscientious art lover” treat works of art that are endorsements of evil? — Noël Carroll (CUNY) takes up the question
Aritifical intelligences may eventually get to the point at which they can think and understand — but when they do, asks Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh), will humans “still be capable of thinking and understanding alongside them”?
Philosophy of Science Communication, aka PhilSciComm, has a new website — check out their interviews and other resources
“Expanding of philosophy’s horizons” will be the theme of the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s London Lectures next year — and the RIP is seeking “suggestions for publications or research which might shed light on important areas, methods, questions, texts or people in philosophy that have been neglected in the English-speaking world”
“When I handed in my resignation, I mostly felt relief. I also felt a surge of energy and creativity. I am excited about what lies ahead” — a young philosopher, a year after getting her Ph.D., quits academia