TED: The ancient origins of the Olympics

British Library – “One-Fifth of the Earth’s Surface is a digital audio-visual, multimedia web experience by artists Hakeem Adam and Maxwell Mutanda. Commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices and York Mediale, the work is, as the title suggests, an exploration of the ‘power of water as a dynamic and fluid archive’ with the Atlantic Ocean its main subject. The British Library has been involved in providing resources for the project, and a number of maps from the Topographical Collection of George III, digitised and released as Public Domain on Flickr have been included in the exhibit, along with sound recordings from the Library’s Sound Archive…”

NSW Police to ask citizens to produce ID to enforce latest health orders

Michael Evans

Suspects in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Claim FBI Set Them Up .

Gross inequality stoked the violence in South Africa. It’s a warning to us all Guardian

The vulnerable points in South Africa’s fuel supply chain The Conversation

This flooding in China is unbelievable – it rained 7 inches in an hour in Zhengzhou (pop. 10 million).

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 11, 2021

Via LLRX – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: The anatomy of a ransomware attack; The Evolution of Cybercrime as a Service; The Older You Are, the More Likely You Are to Fall Victim to Cybercrime; and Capitol rioters who deleted social media posts of their involvement may have further incriminated themselves.

“If you are a sage, and you can’t do wrong, then there is no room for moral anguish or angst… But what if you are not a sage?” — Nancy Sherman (Georgetown) on compassion, mercy, the military, and the social side of Stoic grit

“I keep looking to traditional… epistemology and finding it mostly unhelpful. But I keep finding bits of aesthetics and the philosophy of art incredibly useful” — C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) on why philosophy of art and social epistemology are “intellectual soulmates”

“To say you’re giving up on the problem of demarcation does not mean that you are giving up on the idea that there is something distinctive about science” — and we can acknowledge the limits of science while still vigorously defending it, says Lee McIntyre (Boston University), interviewed at 3:16A

“What we need isn’t a kind of positive hermeneutics to be inculcated in viewers of pornography, so that they can better interpret what is going on… what we need is the onslaught of images to just stop for a moment” — Amia Srinivasan (Oxford) interviewed on pornography and sexuality

“Seeing that I don’t write about things or topics but about what people say about things was one of the most important lessons I learned” — Martin Lenz (Groningen) explains

“I found myself astonished by idea that the structural simplicity I associate with piano keys is the result of an ‘acceptable compromise’ to solve practical problems of musicians playing together” — Patricia Marino (Waterloo) on subjectivity, simplicity, elegance, and the philosophy of keyboard engineering “Narcissistic academic professionalism”, “cowardly deference”, “intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy” — Cornel West’s letter of resignation from Harvard