Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Big and Little Spoons
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) Anxiety is one of the world’s most common health issues. How have treatments evolved over the last 70 years?
Anxiety affects at least hundreds of millions of people every year. What treatments are available, and how have they changed over time?
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Please do not peck my eyes out, bird lovers, you are valid
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, 11/9/25 Now, obviously part of the whole deal of Crock is that it takes what’s objectively a…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The spices go on the pumpkin, they’re not in the pumpkin
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, 11/8/25 In addition to being a coastal elitist who knows about academia, I contain multitudes…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, November 7, 2025 (On the Roman Strategy Debate)
Hey folks! Fireside this week. I had wanted to have my post on the hoplite debate (the othismos over othismos) ready for this week, but it’s not quite done, so I am shifting that to next week. So instead this week I want to outline another debate in ancient military history, the ‘Roman strategy debate.’…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I guess if you learn things about him in conversation, he becomes less unknown and it kills the vibe
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, 11/7/25 The Jungle Patrol, like most military and paramilitary outfits, is mostly composed of young people,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Immigrant Trust Tour: Elizabeth by The Immigrant Trust Tour: Lawrence Township | Policy of Truth
[…] presence, for the second time on this “tour,” of students. The first time was a pair of Rutgers University students at the Middlesex County meeting a few weeks ago, members of City Bureau’s Documenters […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Immigrant Trust Tour: Clifton by The Immigrant Trust Tour: Lawrence Township | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) The Immigrant Trust Tour: Lawrence Township
Last night was Clifton; tonight was Lawrence Township. The statement I gave in Lawrence was essentially the same as the one I gave in Clifton, so I won’t reproduce it. Just a few thoughts and some pictures tonight. I was gratified at how receptive Lawrence Township was to us. They not only put us on…
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