Really cool building-a-new-bridge picture.

About symmetry and beauty in physics.

About using spelling errors to catch plagiarism and genetic errors to trace evolutionary lineages.

The second man to walk on the Moon urges Mars settlement as a way of giving people goals.

Research suggests that coffee may counteract some effects of Alzheier’s ( Read more... )

Edward Feser’s Philosophy of Mind: A Short Introduction is an excellent introduction to the philosophy of mind. As he brings out in his book, philosophy of mind is deeply interconnected with other areas of philosophy. It is also an extremely active area in contemporary philosophy. (Indeed, Feser appears to have already produced an updated ( Read more... )

Blandly ignoring the agony of “female circumcision”: Ms Llewellyn-Davies compared genital mutilation to a white wedding in her chillingly misleading narration for the film Masai Women, a Disappearing World production.

Salman Rushdie thinks blog reviews are good for new writers and thus books

On the joys of emailV S Naipaul was greatly ( Read more... )

I recently linked to an exchange between Stephen Pinker and George Lakoff about the nature of language, thought and the use of metaphors and framings in politics.

As I noted in comments, I don’t have much interest in Lakoff’s application of linguistics to politics, since his notion of “reframing” is just the latest incarnation of the concept of ( Read more... )