Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – On the mend
New comic!Today’s News: You can still late pledge in our 2026 Kickstarter. Find it here: tinyurl.com/2wjw2bw6You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix! Check the nav bar!Subscribe to the Spice Rack newsletter here!Want printe…
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(The GiveWell Blog) How We’re Searching for the Best Ways to Help in 2026
This year, our research team is focused on two primary goals. The first is to rapidly scale our capabilities so we’re able to move much more donor funding to highly cost-effective programs in the near future. The second is to grant at least $500 million to the best opportunities we can find this year to…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Bad blood
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! Mary Worth, 5/18/26 A thing about soap opera comic strips is that it’s very difficult to understand how…
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(xkcd.com) Particle Census
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) South Korea’s population is set to shrink: what would it take to stop the decline?
How much would fertility rates, life expectancy, or migration rates need to change to stop the population from shrinking?
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(Our World in Data) Population tool: How will populations across the world change in the 21st century?
We created an interactive tool that lets you test how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Did Tommy not do the twelve-step thing where he apologized to everyone, or did he just not bother to apologize to Dawn
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, 5/17/26 Look, when the Russians launched a huge drone attack against a prison on U.S. soil,…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Jokes, with pictures
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! Crock, 5/16/26 This is one of those Rodney Dangerfield-style one-liners that sort of makes sense when you first…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, May 15, 2026
Hey folks, fireside this week! Next week we’ll cap off our look at the Carthaginian army by covering some of the ‘odds and ends’ components (slingers, elephants), before looking at how that mixture of troop-types was employed in battle during the third century. For this week’s musing, I figured I would answer a question that…
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