Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- Ai Weiwei: Can Hong Kong’s Resistance Win?
- Judith Butler: When Killing Women Isn’t a Crime
- Democracy Is for the Gods
- Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Fascism’ Claim Too Extreme?
- A Revolution in Happiness
- A Philosopher on Brain Rest
- ‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.
- Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See.
- Becoming Parents to Ourselves
- The Myth That Defines Our Age
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- How to Make a Mouse Hallucinate
- In China, Mental Health Care Goes Virtual
- "Metronome" Neurons Act like Timekeepers in Mouse Brains
- Universal Desire: Men and Women Respond Identically to Erotic Images
- The Truth about Anti-White Discrimination
- Alzheimer's Meeting: Lifestyle Factors Are the Best--and Only--Bet Now for Reducing Dementia Risk
- Elon Musk's Secretive Brain Tech Company Debuts a Sophisticated Neural Implant
- The Neurodiversity Movement Should Acknowledge Autism as a Medical Disability
- Think You're Too Old to Learn New Tricks?
- What Alfred Binet and Maria Montessori Can Teach Us about Intelligence
- TED talks
- How a typeface helped launch Apollo | Douglas Thomas
- How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy | Elizabeth Howell
- A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten | Claudia Miner
- The fundamental right to seek asylum | Melanie Nezer
- Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head | Derren Brown
- The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring | Ella Al-Shamahi
- How film transforms the way we see the world | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
- How we're honoring people overlooked by history | Amy Padnani
- Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves | Jamie Paik
- The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | Rick Doblin
Tag Archives: Peter Ellerton
20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World
There are at least 250,000 words in the English language. English – or any language – could never hold enough expression to convey the entirety of the human experience
Post modernism explained?
Obviously simplistic, but ripe for comment!
Philosophy of Religion website
A wonderfully organised overview of the classic philosophy of religion issues, arguments and problems. http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/
What’s logic got to do with it? – Some of the greatest flashes of scientific inspiration were sparked by utterly illogical thinking.
POPULAR belief has it that science is the preserve of logical Mr Spocks. A great scientific discovery must surely spring from a series of logical steps, each taken coolly and calmly, in the rational order. But take some time to … Continue reading
Top Ten Evolution Myths – and how we know it really happened (pdf)
Often misunderstandings about evolution are really misunderstandings about how science operates. This document deals with both rather nicely. Philosophy of Science. From the Skeptics Society. Top Ten Evolution Myths (pdf)
Hooked on Horoscopes (pdf)
We may not be able to persuade people that astrology and graphology are nonsense, but psychology, with the help of a showman, reveals why they are so popular. The Barnum effect. Psychology and critical thinking. Hooked on horoscopes (pdf)
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Richard Feynman on the nature of science
A beautiful analogy between science and chess.
Consciousness – science tackles the self (pdf)
We know that we are aware of ourselves. But we don’t know how. And we are not even sure why. The answers may lie in the physical processes of consciousness 01 April 1989 by SUSAN BLACKMORE New Scientists Magazine issue … Continue reading
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense (pdf)
Scientific American – 15 answers to creationist nonsense. Includes evolution, as you would expect. From Scientific American. 15 Answers to Creationst Nonsense (pdf)
