Posted inFun Philosophy
Weekly Mail
I receive regularly a lot of red hot tips from regular readers, but as the week goes on they are often buried by newer mail. Thus I will try out…
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Earth Has Rights! Guest Post by John Henry Briggs
Since I am away out west, I sent intrepid reporter and number two son John Henry Briggs to the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center, where…
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Can Telomeres Predict How Long You Will Live?
No, they can't. Not exactly, and perhaps not with sufficient precision to be useful to you. But there is a new company called Life Length who will sell you, for…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Rights, Rights, And More Rights—But No Responsibilities
Busy day. So here, just for fun, and woefully incomplete, are a list of "rights" recently discovered. Remember: there can be no rights without responsibilities. If you invoke a right,…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Economic Fallacy, Greenpeace, David Suzuki, And Global Warming
"You can't believe what that guy says. He research was funded by Greenpeace!" The person uttering this sentence has committed the economic fallacy, which is the belief that the truth…
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David Stove, PMS Admakers Apologize For PMS Apology Ad, San Franciscan Criminals, More
David Stove David Stove has a posthumous essay, put out in book form: What’s Wrong With Benevolence: Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment. There is a review at…
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Tall men in planes
I am off to Spain today, for the conference, to present my unfinished, and unfinishable, talk. Why unfinishable? I am asking people to supply estimates for certain probabilities (see the…
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It was bound to happen
Remember how you used to cavalierly ignore those "Keep of the Grass Signs" in your un-enlightened youth? Well, you brutal, uncaring, beast. For it has finally been announced---from Europe, naturally,…
