Cheap Thrills
When philosophers talk about the beautiful and the sublime, they don’t mean those terms in the way of common parlance (meaning, respectively, pretty and supreme). They...
Read MoreThe Idol of Technology and the Fear of Bears
In the last ten years there has been an average of just under 3 fatalities by bear mauling per year in North America. The last death by the paws of a grizzly in...
Read MoreThe Poet and the Philosopher: Enemies or Allies?
As The Sound of Music’s Maria Rainer once advised, “let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start”. In the tradition of Western philosophy, to which...
Read MoreRats, Words, and the Human World
In 2010 Radiolab ran a story on words, the first act of which was titled “Words that Change the World” (if you don’t know what Radiolab is, you should check it out—it’s...
Read MorePlaying online for real money
The idea of playing online for real money can be quite daunting for some people. But with a little knowledge you can start having some fun in minutes on websites like...
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