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- The Green Corridors Initiative
- Governance governing government
- Why print money when we can print wealth?
- Building a resilient health and care system
- We'll always have Paris?
- Experimentation and equity in global cities
- Technology-enabled deliberative democracy
- Healthier placemaking
- Creating a sovereign wealth fund in Wolverhampton
- Economic recovery and climate action
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Asexuality Research Has Reached New Heights. What Are We Learning?
- Political Ads Can Target Your Personality. Here's What Could Go Wrong
- Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
- People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome May Have an "Exhausted" Immune System
- How to Close the 'Orgasm Gap' for Heterosexual Couples
- Virtual Bar Scenes Are a New Tool to Study Why People Commit Crimes in the Heat of the Moment
- Anger Can Help You Meet Your Goals
- How Sleep Engineering Could Help Heal the Brain
- Dominatrices Are Showing People How to Have Rough Sex Safely
- Farmers in Crisis, Long Overlooked, Are Finally Getting Mental Health Support
- TED talks
- A firework ladder to the sky — and the magic of explosive art | Cai Guo-Qiang
- The secret force for limitless energy? Lasers | Tammy Ma
- War journalism should be rooted in empathy — not violence | Bel Trew
- The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it | Jonathan Foley
- How buildings can improve life — inside and out | Doris Sung
- The satellite helping slow climate change — right now | Millie Chu Baird
- What's possible when the arts belong to everybody | Lear deBessonet with Brian Stokes Mitchell
- “Cant de la Sibil·la” / "Quien Más Me Ama" | Maria Arnal
- Bravery, brilliance and RuPaul Charles | On the Spot | RuPaul Charles
- How to claim your leadership power | Michael Timms
Category Archives: Media Articles, Cartoons
Intelligent Design – the Myth of Irreducible Complexity
How irreducible complexity, a stalwart of the Intelligent Design movement is NOT supported by the bacterial flagellum. Philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, hypothesis. Mark Perakh discusses how Intelligent Design proponents created the myth that bacterial flagella look like man-made … Continue reading
Free Will vs the Programmed Brain
If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything—or any responsibility for what we do? Scientific American. Free will, philosophy of mind, determinism. By Shaun Nichols Many scientists and philosophers are convinced that … Continue reading
Alternative Medicine – Sincerity no substitute for evidence
HOW many readers have gone to dinner parties and listened to otherwise intelligent people assert that alternative medicine can be just as effective as mainstream, scientific medicine? Generally, the argument is that alternative medicine, in all its many forms, is … Continue reading
Calvin & Hobbes – Ethics
The ends justifies the means… cartoon.
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Do Subatomic Particles have Free Will?
If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove. Article from New Scientisty magazine. Philosophy of mind, consciousness, free will. Do subatomic particles have free will? http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35391/title/Do_subatomic_particles_have_free_will%3F Do subatomic particles have free will? By Julie … Continue reading
Tackling the Problem of Free Will
For years, the frustrating lack of progress on the problem of free will has been a scandal in philosophy. Now it looks as if neurobiology may help us out – and indeed it may, says John Searle, but don’t think … Continue reading
Monkeys given Huntington’s for study
Monkeys given genes to develop Huntington’s disease – as well as genes from jelly fish to glow green. Animal rights / ethics. Monkey engineered to develop Huntington (doc)
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Zen in the modern age
Scanned article about a woman’s simple life and the choices she makes. Good for stoicism, hedonism, epicurus, epicurianism, fatalism, religion perhaps…?
Evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
By viewing evolution as the motion of energy flows toward a stationary state (entropy), evolution can be explained by the second law of thermodynamics, a law which conventionally describes physical systems. In this view, a cheetah serves as an energy … Continue reading
If you’ve nothing to hide…..Secrecy and the Open Society
Debate on whether privacy is necessary in an open society to a large degree. Should only criminals fear not having secrets? Social and political philosophy resource. Mirko Bagaric | August 13, 2008 HOW worried do you reckon people in developing countries … Continue reading
Fallacy of ‘Appeal to Nature’
An advertisement showing the appeal to nature – fallacies of reasoning. The word ‘natural’ appears 10 times in the ad. Brisbane Courier Mail 10 August 2008.
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Direct and Indirect Arguments
What the difference between the two is and why it’s important. podcasts-Direct-Indirect (wmv)
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Censorship II
A second chuckle from Bill Leak at the time of the Bill Henson photographic ‘pornography or art’ affair …
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Censorship cartoon I
Bill Leak’s (cartoonist with The Australian) take on PM Kevin Rudd’s reaction to Bill Henson’s photographs. This (and the following cartoon) were used as an ‘ice-breaker’ into the topic of freedom of expression (Social & Political Philosophy – John Stuart … Continue reading
Blasphemy and Public Policy
Lord Ram and the Hindu religious beliefs that are tested by recent scientific discoveries. Scanned newspaper article. Check the public outrage. Good for philosophy of religion and social philosophy.
How to properly use Ad Hominem attacks
An article from Scientific American about the use and misuse of this fallacy of reasoning. Scientific American (May 2008) Character Attacks: How to Properly Apply the Ad Hominem A new theory parses fair from unfair uses of personal criticism in … Continue reading
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Rene Descartes – The Later Years
I think therefore I am…. What was I thinking? (cartoon)
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Ghost in the Machine
Starving philosophy student contemplates the ‘toast in the machine’ (cartoon).
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Penguin Logic
How not to do deductive logic (cartoon)
