Philosopher’s Zone- NYTimes – The Stone
- ‘Feminine Weakness’ Is a Scam
- Power? No, Thanks, I’m Good
- Breaking My Own Silence
- Elena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own
- Beware of ‘Snakes,’ ‘Invaders’ and Other Fighting Words
- The Sacred Spell of Words
- Athens in Pieces: An Offering to the Soccer Gods
- The End of Satire
- Athens in Pieces: The Happiest Man I’ve Ever Met
- Who Counts as a Woman?
- Philosophy Now
- RSA Animate
- Scientific American – Mind and Brain
- Creative Types Reserve a Special Corner of the Brain for Dreaming Big
- A Solution for Loneliness
- Cannabis Compound Eases Anxiety and Cravings of Heroin Addiction
- Firefighter Suicides Rise in the Wake of Deadly Wildland Blazes
- How to Be a Data-Driven Parent
- Be Careful with Occam’s Razor, You Might Cut Yourself
- Failure to Launch Syndrome
- The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of <em>Game of Thrones</em>
- Are We More Attracted to People Who Look like Our Parents?
- Autism May Be Diagnosed by Age Two
- TED talks
- The anti-CEO playbook | Hamdi Ulukaya
- The next global agricultural revolution | Bruce Friedrich
- Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal | Lucy Cooke
- How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others | Brittany Packnett
- The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood
- How AI could become an extension of your mind | Arnav Kapur
- What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes | Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin
- Could a tattoo help you stay healthy? | Carson Bruns
- Digital humans that look just like us | Doug Roble
- Sleep is your superpower | Matt Walker
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)
