phileconomicusWill Self: I'm Not Toasting [Insert Head-Of-State Here] (bbc.co.uk)
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Take A Picture -- Review of "Believing Is Seeing", by Errol Morris. On photography. What gives particular images their power? Why do we find tragic images more moving than happy ones? Is there a dividing line between a true photo and a staged one? (lareviewofbooks.org)
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Cognitive Democracy -- (long) essay on virtues of democracy. "Democracy brings diverse perceptions into direct contact, allowing forms of learning that are unlikely through the price mechanism of markets, or the hierarchical arrangements of bureaucracy" (cscs.umich.edu)
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Cognitive Democracy -- (long) essay on virtues of democracy. "Democracy brings diverse perceptions into direct contact, allowing forms of learning that are unlikely through the price mechanism of markets, or the hierarchical arrangements of bureaucracy" (cscs.umich.edu)
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Will This Post Make Sam Harris Change His Mind About Free Will? -- John Horgan provides a welcome counter to much pseudophilosophical, badly scientifically informed stuff that passes for rigorous intellectual exercise these days. Not least Harris’s "The Moral Landscape" (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist In English -- e.g. "Backpfeifengesicht" (German): A face badly in need of a fist. "Gigil" (Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute. "Litost" (Czech): State of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery (sobadsogood.com)
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Right-Wing Billionaires Behind Mitt Romney -- "An unprecedented infusion of money from America's monied elites underscores the radical transformation of the Republican Party, which has made defending the interests of the 0.0001% the basis of its platform." Meet the donors (rollingstone.com)
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The Monarchy: More Ancient than Modern (historytoday.com)
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An Audacious Promise: The Moral Case for Capitalism by itsjustallgonein Foodforthought
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Guess What's Cooking in the Garage -- nside the world of DIY synthetic biology. Where amateurs attempt genetic engineering in homemade labs. Will it lead to a wave of scientific breakthroughs, and valuable new life forms? Or a new generation of Dr Frankensteins? (popsci.com)
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Guess What's Cooking in the Garage -- nside the world of DIY synthetic biology. Where amateurs attempt genetic engineering in homemade labs. Will it lead to a wave of scientific breakthroughs, and valuable new life forms? Or a new generation of Dr Frankensteins? (popsci.com)
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Latter-Day Politics: Can We Talk about Mormonism Now? (newyorker.com)
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The case for paying donors for their organs. by xLittlePin Economics
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What makes the Germans so inclined to Organization and tidiness? Do they have an inherent feeling from childhood that they are untidy so they have to fix it? I've learned from experience most of the times someone does something is because he feels he lacks it. by NonAmericanin europe
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What does it feel like to be bitten by a black widow spider? -- "I would rather have been strung up naked by my toes, in the middle of the town square, have my naked body slathered in honey, and then have an entire battalion of honey-starved Winnie the Pooh bears set loose to devour me" (quora.com)
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An Audacious Promise: The Moral Case For Capitalism by trot-trotin TrueReddit
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