Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Humility
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George Will on Sunday wrote a short article about the lessons of our failed nation building in Bosnia. If nation-building could ever be su...
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Uploading our brains to computers
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Bryan Caplan today mentioned the idea of achieving immortality via uploading one's brain to a computer. I've heard others propose ...
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Otanes the Persian, a man after my own heart
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I've been reading Herodotus' Histories, and there's a short interesting story about a Persian named Otanes. A group of magi (pr...
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Are American filmgoers so opposed to Darwin?
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A new British Charles Darwin biopic called Creation premiered at the Toronto film festival last week and is set to be released in the UK, A...
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Pain Free Animals & Utilitarian Calculus
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Robin Hanson has an interesting commentary on the possibility of using animals that are genetically modified not to feel pain for animal te...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Forget the "We Shall Never Forget" mantra
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I concur with Will Wilkinson . There's nothing healthy in this insistence that we never forget 9/11: Those most insistent that we “neve...
Friday, September 11, 2009
Why are guys attracted to crazy girls?
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Glamour blogger Shallon Lester brought this issue up last week. Why are guys sometimes attracted to those emotionally unstable, unpredictab...
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