The Conscience of Color, from Chemistry to Culture “Within every color lies a story, and stories are the binding agent of culture… The right words can come only out of the perfect space of a place you love.

 

A millionaire businessman once acquitted of murder has been arrested while allegedly attempting to flee to Dubai after $7 million in cash was found hidden in a Sydney house. 

The discovery of cash concealed under concrete flooring in Sydney’s southwest came a year after detectives established a strike force to investigate a suspected drug supply ring.

Last Wednesday, detectives carried out raids on two homes including one at Roselands where the cash was found

Sydney businessman Hugo Jacobs arrested at airport over $7m in cash found under floor

The Conscience of Color, from Chemistry to Culture

“Within every color lies a story, and stories are the binding agent of culture… The right words can come only out of the perfect space of a place you love.”

BY MARIA POPOVA

“The deep blue water of the open sea far from land is the color of emptiness and barrenness; the green water of the coastal areas, with all its varying hues, is the color of life,” Rachel Carson wrote as she illuminated the science and splendor of the marine spectrum, enriching the literary canon of history’s most beautiful meditations on the color blue.

1. The sociological aspects of “the end of analytic philosophy” — from the point of view of a relatively recent philosophy PhD, Dave Atenasio (Frostburg)
2. “I think that off-the-charts retributivism is weak. I think it is weak because it just means I have nothing constructive to do, so I’m going to punish you“ — Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) interviewed in The New Yorker
3. More on racial, ethnic, and gender diversity among US philosophy students and faculty — “It’s mixed news”
4. Leibniz’s freaky unicorn — the “imaginatively reassembled” skeleton of which he depicted in his Protogaea
5. “Even if our evolutionary background does not debunk our claim to know objective moral truths, the explanatory stories told by debunkers can still be useful in flagging ways in which evolutionary influences might be distorting our moral thinking” — William J. Fitzpatrick (Rochester) on the interplay of metaethics and science
6. Interested in teaching Latin American philosophy but fear you don’t know enough? Here’s how — and why, from Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. (Occidental)
7. “Before the ruling, a book had to prove that it was not obscene before being allowed to cross the border; after, customs had to prove that something was indecent before seizing it” — how the obscenity case of a book by philosopher Richard Mohr (Illinois) changed Canadian free speech law