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For those of you fortunate enough not to know what a 'Philosophy Smoker' is, let me begin by saying that it has nothing to do with either 'smoking' or 'Philosophy.'
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Eddy Nahmias is cool because he doesn’t know it. He’s an anti-willussionist. He stands amongst the smoke of his burnt out armchair on the same land as Josh Knobe’s but has another one nearby. He’s writing the book Rediscovering Free Will. 
New Jersey company says it has permission for unique partnership to work toward the holy grail of energy sources. 
Philosophy professor Debra Satz explores the moral limits of free markets in a democratic society. 
In this warm talk, Susskind remembers his mentor and friend, a complex person few got to know very well. 
New research at Oregon State University has discovered that curcumin, a compound found in the cooking spice turmeric, can cause a modest but measurable increase in levels of a protein that's known to be important in the 'innate' immune system, helping to prevent infection in humans and other animals. 
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia. 
Eliminativism of all sorts -- about morality, consciousness, free will, the self -- is frequently motivated by what I like to call the 'fallacy of disappointed expectations.' 
In the latest RSA Animate production, Manuel Lima explores the power of network visualization in our increasingly complex world. A senior UX design lead at Microsoft, Lima explains how the world wide web we’ve mapped out on the Internet is eerily similar to many natural phenomenon in the world and universe at large. 
Researchers push for end to publishers' default ban on computer scanning of tens of thousands of papers to find links between genes and diseases. 
Genetic analyses have come a long way since researchers last took a serious look at remains claimed to belong to cryptids like yeti and bigfoot. Now, Oxford University researcher Bryan Sykes thinks it's time to revisit the issue using some of the most advanced analytical techniques available. 
Science fiction writers will always, by definition, be one step ahead of engineers, and interstellar travel and time travel still elude them. 
Fine-tuning the machinery of distinguishing the valid from the non-valid. 
TED didn’t see Hanauer’s ideas as being 'worth spreading.' The video now appears on YouTube. You can watch it and decide what you think: Censorship or selectivity? Or, let me add a third option: a lack of nerve? |
Climate scientists think a perfect storm of climate 'flips' could cause massive upheavals in a matter of years. 
The video of the highly acclaimed Turing and his Times event organised by The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is now online. The event, held on 26 April 2012, was to mark the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing and was the second of three Turing-themed events linking three of the top computing museums in the world. 
'To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.' 
Today two different thunderbolts struck in academic publishing, one from an old storm, and the other from a new one. The first story is the imminent closing this summer of the University of Missouri Press, after five decades of operation. The other thunderbolt: UCSF, the largest public university recipient of NIH funding in the country, has passed an open access policy for its faculty. 
Justin E. H. Smith's Divine Machines argues that many of Leibniz's most central philosophical doctrines are similarly bound up with the life sciences of his time, where the 'life sciences' are understood very broadly to include fields as diverse as alchemy, medicine, taxonomy, and paleontology. 
One day, your doctor may tell you to eat two teaspoons of quantum dots and call her in the morning. Well, sort of. 
Diffusion spectrum MRI image of the human brain showing three dimensional grid structure of white matter tracts. 
New evidence from meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars. 
Modern humans have created many thousands of distinct cultures. So what will it mean if globalization turns us into one giant, homogenous world culture? 
If Stephen Hawking could talk with Albert Einstein, what would he say? 
In The Harm in Hate Speech, Jeremy Waldron discusses a loosely defined category of expression that he addressed in a review of Anthony Lewis’s book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate in The New York Review in 2008, and in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures at Harvard University in 2009. 
Denying the view of science as a continual building process, Kuhn held that a revolution is a destructive as well as a creative act. |
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