Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- The Road to Auschwitz Wasn’t Paved With Indifference
- Capitalism and ‘Culturecide’
- ‘The Good Place’ Asks, Are You the Worst Thing You’ve Ever Done?
- Why We Will Need Walt Whitman in 2020
- Am I Wiser Than My Grandparents?
- Are You Listening?
- Could I Be My Own Soul Mate?
- It’s a Terrible Day in the Neighborhood, and That’s O.K.
- The Real Cost of Tweeting About My Kids
- The Perils of Abstraction
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- How "Paralinguistic Cues" Can Help You to Persuade
- New Nerve-Growing Method Could Help Injured Soldiers and Others
- Largest Brain Wiring Diagram to Date Is Published
- How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?
- Do We Possess a Transpersonal Imagination?
- My Go-To Arguments for Free Will
- Does Social Media Cause Depression?
- Possible Missing Link in Alzheimer's Pathology Identified
- Johns Hopkins Scientists Give Psychedelics the Serious Treatment
- In Search of the Brain's Social Road Maps
- TED talks
- Does photographing a moment steal the experience from you? | Erin Sullivan
- A personal health coach for those living with chronic diseases | Priscilla Pemu
- Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture? | Stuart Oda
- How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world | Adam Garske
- Why can't we talk about periods? | Jen Gunter
- A path to security for the world's deadliest countries | Rachel Kleinfeld
- Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system | Priti Krishtel
- How supply chain transparency can help the planet | Markus Mutz
- How guest worker visas could transform the US immigration system | David J. Bier
- The perks of being a pirate | Tom Nash
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)
