Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The meal isn’t free, 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! Bizarro, 2/18/25 Big fan of today’s Bizarro for insisting on historical realism in the face of the gauzy,…
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(Policy of Truth) Provider, Heal Thyself
Every now and then, in debates about the political economy of health care, you’ll run into the physician who declares that he’s had it with being called a “provider,” and won’t put up with it a minute longer. He went to med school, he got an MD, he walked uphill-barefoot-in-the-snow-both-ways, from anatomy and physiology to…
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(QC RSS) comics
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) CORPSETHIEF: THE THIEF WHO STEALS CORPSES
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, 2/17/25 Not sure if America was in the mood for the Dick Tracy storyline just concluded,…
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(Our World in Data) In many countries, people breathe the cleanest air in centuries. What can the rest of the world learn from this?
Air pollution tends to get worse before it gets better, but how can we accelerate this transition?
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(xkcd.com) Archive Request
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Hayek on Social Knowledge
We’re reading Hayek’s famous paper, “The Use of Knowledge in Society” in our monthly reading group tomorrow. I’ve never been convinced by Hayek’s argument, and get less convinced everytime I re-read the paper. I don’t have time to work out a full argument against the paper, so here, for whatever it’s worth, is a quick…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, February 14, 2025 (On Grant Funding)
Hey folks! Happy Valentine’s Day. Fireside this week and then hopefully next week we’ll start into our look at the Siege of Eregion in Season 2 of Rings of Power and also the larger Tolkien legendarium. I confess, watching the show, my suspension of disbelief fell much faster than the city did. But in the…
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