Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Current and future ghosts
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Phantom, 5/17/25 One of the key ongoing dramas of The Phantom is the question of what woman…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Speaking affectionately ill of the dead
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy, 5/16/25 The current Dick Tracy story wrapped up with our criminals fleeing from the cops and…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)
This week we’re going to do something a bit silly, in part because I have to prepare for and travel to an invited workshop/talk event later this week and so don’t have quite the time for a more normal ‘full’ post and in part because it is fun to be silly sometimes (and we might…
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(QC RSS) BT Continues To BT
We first met BT way back here
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(xkcd.com) Sail Physics
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) COMING TO SEE YOU
Rumbling through the New England woodHand on the wheel, machine on the asphaltFeeling the roadI squint to see the tracks and tracesAmong the obscuring brambles of timeThis curve, that jagged boulder, this once-stately homesteadDo I remember the way?Tricks and illusions throw me offA watery road (like a fountain)A maze of impossible rock-wall twists and turnsAnd…
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 4: Supporting Governments Navigating US Funding Cuts
Cuts to US government foreign assistance have created unprecedented challenges for global health programs. Countries that have relied on this funding must now navigate substantial gaps and make difficult decisions about program priorities. In the fourth episode of GiveWell’s podcast series on these cuts, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with Program Officer Dan…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Thursday is for little games and tasks
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Hi and Lois, 5/15/25 Sorry, Hi: today’s teens would never try to read something and listen to something…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Preaching to the choir
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