The one Ms Kasia Kapusta aka Cabbage saw formed around 10.40am as dark and heavy rain clouds were rolling in towards the beach.
“It’s a bit like a straw sucking up the water,” a Bureau of Meteorology spokesman explained.
Waterspouts aren’t too uncommon, and work in a similar way to “dust devils” or “willy-willys” – spinning sand columns seen in inland Australia.
How did this crisis happen? A breach at Piney Point puts area in environmental peril Miami Herald
Congress Extends Covid-19 Bankruptcy Relief for Consumers, Small Businesses Wall Street Journal
Internet Archives Blog – “For a long time, we’ve felt that the growing, diverse, global community interested in building the decentralized Web needed an entry point. A portal into the events, concepts, voices, and resources critical to moving the Decentralized Web forward. This is why we created, getdweb.net, to serve as a portal, a welcoming entry point for people to learn and share strategies, analysis, and tools around how to build a decentralized Web…”
It’s not just a social media problem – how search engines spread misinformation – Chirag Shah, Associate Professor in the Information School, University of Washington and Founding Director of InfoSeeking Lab, which focuses on issues related to information seeking, human-computer interaction (HCI), and social media. Shah’s research describes how search engines are not just one of society’s primary gateways to information and people, but they are also conduits for misinformation. Similar to problematic social media algorithms, search engines learn to serve you what you and others have clicked on before. Because people are drawn to the sensational, this dance between algorithms and human nature can foster the spread of misinformation.
The Growth of London, 47 ACE to the Present
Ollie Bye has created an animated time lapse of the growth of London from a small Roman town in 47 ACE to the largest city in the world (during the Victorian era) to the massive, sprawling city it is today.
See also Here Grows New York City, a Time Lapse of NYC’s Street Grid from 1609 to the Present, an example of what the creator called “an abstract representation of urbanism”. And a list of the largest cities throughout history — perhaps surprisingly, there have only been two lead changes since the 1820s.
New:
- Human Nature, by Neil Roughley.
Revised:
- Juan Luis Vives [Joannes Ludovicus Vives], by Lorenzo Casini.
- Josiah Royce, by Kelly A. Parker and Scott Pratt.
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, by Vittoria Perrone Compagni.
- Constructivism in Metaethics, by Carla Bagnoli.
- Karl Popper, by Stephen Thornton.
- Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time, by Craig Callender.
- Aquinas’ Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy, by John Finnis.
- Formal Epistemology, by Jonathan Weisberg.
- Political Obligation, by Richard Dagger and David Lefkowitz.
- Varieties of Modality, by Boris Kment.
IEP ∅
- Johnny Thakkar reviews Rediscovering Political Friendship: Aristotle’s Theory and Modern Identity, Community, and Equality, by Paul W. Ludwig.
1000-Word Philosophy ∅
Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media
- John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life by Elijah Millgram, reviewed by Jonathan Egid at The Times Literary Supplement.
- The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel, reviewed by Paul J. D’Ambrosio at the Los Angeles Review of Books and by Richard King at Sydney Review of Books.
- An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon, reviewed by John Gray at The New Statesman.
- Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics In Its Place by Robert Talisse, reviewed by Richard Eldridge at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Compiled by Michael Glawson