Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The GiveWell Blog) The Research behind Our $276 Million Grant for Malaria Nets in DRC
Malaria kills around 600,000 people annually. Children under five years old in Africa account for about 70% of all malaria deaths worldwide, and around 11% of total malaria deaths are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). As part of our ongoing efforts to scale our research and funding to direct much more money…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Troubled youth
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! Dennis the Menace, 8/27/26 As my readers well know, part of Dennis’s whole deal is that he hates…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Not it
New comic!Today’s News: Patreon Paid Members perks:Read Pixie Trix Comix one week ahead!Read Bad Bad Besties, our NEW SERIES!And relive Ma3 in color! Only on Patreon!You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix! Check the nav bar!Subscribe to the S…
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(QC RSS v2) Head Over Ass
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS v2 at QC RSS v2.
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(Policy of Truth) Princeton in the Service of Empire
“Organized activity”–aka, peaceful political activity–has been banned at Princeton University’s Cannon Green since the enforced closure of Gaza Solidarity Encampment in May 2024, a first since the British Army’s occupation of Princeton in 1777. There’s one notable exception: ROTC. That’s what you’re looking at just above. I took the photo last Friday morning. It’s Princeton’s…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) A dog’s life
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! Mother Goose and Grimm, 8/26/26 The Goofy/Pluto paradox is a situation many comics and cartoons that feature sapient…
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(QC RSS v2) Momo Keeps The Score
it has been [0] days since May and Marigold got in a fight about something stupid
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(xkcd.com) Trade
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Whose Whatabouting? Which Controversy? by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. I’ve said as much. Accusations of “whataboutism” are accusations of someone’s committing a fallacy of diversion from some privileged topic. But the question is how the privileged topic is selected and …
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(Policy of Truth) The Human Shields of West Palm Beach
The New York Times ran an article the other day that’s notable both for how ordinary and how extraordinary it is. The facts are extraordinary, the attitudes taken to it predictably complacent. It’s yet another addition to my running series here on the use of “Human Shields,” not in Gaza or Southern Lebanon, but right…
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