“It bothers me that in this society, it's OK seeing a guy blow another's head off, but a child seeing Janet Jackson's boob at the Super Bowl is the worst thing that could happen. It's not the end of the world! It's just a breast!”
~ CHARLIZE THERON
What is a group of pandas called? It’s surprisingly complicated ZME Science
The Imperial Fed Phenomenal World
Helen Keller Was One of the Great American Socialists Jacobin
Why Primates (Including Humans) Love to Spin Ourselves around until We All Fall Down Scientific American
Study suggests pumas utilize sly strategy of fertilizing plants that recruit prey to hunting grounds Phys.org
An aperiodic monotile exists! The Aperiodical. The “Einstein Hat,” “punning on the German ‘ein’ – one, ‘stein’ – stone (or tile). It’s fairly safe to predict that if the ‘einstein’ part sticks, future generations will be confused about whether Albert Einstein was involved.” Here is a video on how to construct one.
- 93% of philosophy expected to be LLM-authored summaries of corpus analyses of x-phi survey results by 2027 — findings from a new statistical study forthcoming in Mined.
- DeSantis bans teaching of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty in Florida classrooms — his idea of “experiments in living”, according to parents who had complained about the book, “sounds gay”.
- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Noûs, and Ethics among philosophy journals leaving their publishers and moving to Substack — the bad news is they will still be behind a paywall, the good news is that the paywall is only $5/month
- “Other philosophers have simply failed to appreciate just how much can be derived from ‘A=A'”— Richard Marshall “interviews” Ayn Rand at 3:16AM.
- New “Philosophy for Kids” program focuses on teaching elementary students the skills they’ll need — in order to eventually pursue careers in computer programming, business, government, consulting, etc.
- “It turns out there is value in a history of philosophical work on the value of the history of philosophy” — from a recent article in Metametaphilosophy.
- “I am a philosopher who has taken an interest, of late, in Candy Crush, and I find that my experiments have significantly widened the range of accounts of the nature of reality that I am disposed to take seriously” — Justin E.H. Smith continues to push against the boundaries of philosophy.
