Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Honey, the Algorithm did it

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And the thing is is that this isn't Google. This isn't information. These aren't financial stats; this is culture. And what you ...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Bertrand Russell's Three Passions

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Quote of the Day; Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, ...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Effective Habits of Ernest Gellner - 'cold intellectual honesty'

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A review of another Gellner biography ; In common with so many other émigrés, Gellner served in the war (in his case in a Czechoslovak arm...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Dangerous Knowledge

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In this one-off documentary , David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turi...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

Art podcast of the Day- Edvard Munch

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From BBCs In Our Time ; First exhibited in 1893 in Berlin, The Scream was the culmination of Munch's magnum opus, a series of paintings...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

LOGICOMIX

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Christos Papadimitriou at Google Related; Logicomix Algorithm and Blues
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Photo of the Day

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Source: 36 Hours in New York City Related: The 31 Places to Go in 2010 - Sri Lanka tops the list
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Sunday, November 8, 2009

Back to Nature

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via Flick
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Lévi-Strauss is dead

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A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss, in studying the mythologies of primitive tribes, transformed the way the 20th century came to understa...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

An Urban Love Story

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As she entered the train, she noticed a man standing and reading “ History of Philosophy, Volume IX .” That impressed her. “ I infer that pe...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Freeman Dyson profile

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Among Dyson’s gifts is interpretive clarity, a penetrating ability to grasp the method and significance of what many kinds of scientists do...
Friday, March 27, 2009

The School of Athens - History podcast of the Day

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The School of Athens ; Despite commissioning the Sistine Chapel, Pope Julius II is better known as a warrior than a scholar. But when he did...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mind is not a blind slate

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Babies 'can do' maths
Monday, March 9, 2009

The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan

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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America Russell Shorto interv...
Friday, January 16, 2009

THE ART INSTINCT

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THE ART INSTINCT-Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution By Denis Dutton Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular Web site...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

10 Moral Paradoxes

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I shall argue that sometimes it is morally permissible not to be sorry when bad things happen. It is even permissible to be happy about it. ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

What does this mean?

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A mule is a biological hybrid, an offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. According to a new paper, all of this cross-pollination has...
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Monday, August 18, 2008

Who would you hire- an economist or a psychologist

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Charlie Rose asks some of the best macroeconomists; 'If in fact you just simply want to make a lot of money,.. would you rather have a ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Human Nature meets Mother Nature

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Encounters at the End of the World - a great documentary A review from NYT; One of the beauties of “Encounters at the End of the World” is ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Blog of the Day

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Habermasian Reflections