Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- Athens in Pieces: Democracy Isn’t Written, It Speaks
- Confronting Philosophy’s Anti-Semitism
- Athens in Pieces: What Really Happened at Eleusis?
- Why Mortality Makes Us Free
- Why White People Need Blackface
- Athens in Pieces: The Tragedy of Democracy
- The Oscars and the Illusion of Perfect Representation
- The Good-Enough Life
- Athens in Pieces: In Aristotle’s Garden
- Athens in Pieces: The Stench of the Academy
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- A Reason to be Skeptical of the Workplace Wellness Industry
- 4 Laws That Could Stem the Rising Threat of Mass Shootings
- No, A Shamrock Won't Bring You Luck
- Can Cannabis Solve the Opioid Crisis?
- An Hour of Light and Sound a Day Might Keep Alzheimer's at Bay
- The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse Does
- 7 Strategies to Maximize a Break without Losing Focus
- Harnessing the Power of "Collective Intelligence" to Change Beliefs about Global Warming
- The Science of Tipping Points: How 25 Percent Can Create a Majority
- <em>Adam Ruins Everything</em> Shows Us the Right Way to Be Wrong
- TED talks
- What's killing bees -- and how to save them | Noah Wilson-Rich
- Why I turned Chicago's abandoned homes into art | Amanda Williams
- The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes | Phil Plait
- How to keep human bias out of AI | Kriti Sharma
- "My Man" / "Bohanna" / "We Dance" | Crush Club
- Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse | Thomas Curran
- Where did the Moon come from? A new theory | Sarah T. Stewart
- What happens in your throat when you beatbox? | Tom Thum and Matthew Broadhurst
- The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care | Yvonne van Amerongen
- An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math | Eugenia Cheng
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)
