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Postmodern sins Buber bares blame for. At a pomo conservative blog.
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Mormons and Asian Americans live the longest. I came upon this by an inadvertent Google. Kind of interesting. I honestly didn't realize the average US Mormon lives to 86. Only wealthy Asian Americans do better. It's a dated statistic. (1992) Anyone have anything more recent?
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I missed this one over the weekend. It's Levi-Strauss' 100th birthday. I like that the post discusses more than structuralism.
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On the Origin of the Word of Wisdom. The history of the LDS dietary rules.
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Generating Shakespeare via evolution. Pretty cool and a great answer to various attacks on evolution.
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The varieties of conservatism
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Political parties, sex differences and IQs.
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A new kind of agent-libertarianism? I'm not convinced that moving chance from inside the agent ala Kane to outside is going to assuage most Libertarians (like Blake) who need some kind of ontological choosing stuff.
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Sean Caroll (of Cosmic Variance) on what if time exists? Basically considers QM conceptions of time (Presentism) as accurate and reaches a Heraclitean conclusion. (I'm sure Blake will like this essay)
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Cosmic Variance on those dark matter stories. There were a ton but I'll just link here.
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Ocean acidification happening 10-20x as fast as climate models predict. Yikes. Wormwood here we come.
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Peirce as a scientific mystic. I think that, as with Heidegger, one can really overplay the mystic angle. But also as with Heidegger there's something to be said for it.
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Are Mormons the New Catholics? (In entertainment that is)
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Richard on morality in the multiverse. (Note this is a particular subset of multiverse theories) One of my favorite posts of Richard. It's responding to a post I'd linked to last week at Uncertain Principles.
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YouTube channel all about Continental philosophy (HT: Enowning) I think I'd prefer it as podcasts but in a few places the video makes a difference. Hopefully there will be more online classes like this. (Hint, hint BYU)
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The history of Rome as a podcast. (iTunes link)
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Create your own false memory in less than a second
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Disorder spreads. That theory that small crimes propagate has a bit more empirical evidence behind it now.
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Cool video of meteor hitting Saskatoon
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Many-Worlds and Decoherence: There Are No Other Universes
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Heh. How to talk to a climate skeptic. A list of articles answering the common attacks.
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Approaching scientific realism through a notion of "robustness." (Robust = accessible in a variety of different ways)
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Will video games solve sex-discrimination in science?
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Richard on the confusion of whether the you on drugs is really "you." This is a big worry for some about anti-depressants. But still there is something odd about these sorts of concerns.
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Ardis' Utah War primer. A nice summary if you aren't up on the history.
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Quantifiers

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Razib on religion.

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Be Dogmatic?

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MMM Panel

MMM Panel at SLC Public Library. Looks good. (Ardis also mentioned it and will be posting notes from it.)

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