Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(xkcd.com) Biology Department
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Kiosks and Cowardice
I wrote this in May, but forgot to post it. I happened to notice it today while cleaning out old files. It seems a fitting start to the academic year. In Princeton, where I live, there are two kiosks on Nassau Street, the main drag, on which people put up up flyers of various sorts,…
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(Policy of Truth) Start Spreading the News
Current status: paying $70 to take an Uber to work, care of a well-dressed driver named Roberto who’s blaring Sinatra in my ear. Feel like I’m en route to another meeting with Batista over the Castro/Che problem, but no, just another day of DRG Downgrade appeals with assorted hospital clients, paying top dollar to get…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) She’s flying AWAY from New York, she should be singing “California” by Phantom Planet
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, 9/9/25 Mary Worth’s use of bold font is … let’s say, unconventional, but I do think…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Remember our deal
New comic!Today’s News: You can now read Exorsisters on Pixie Trix Comix. It’ll update Monday to Friday! :)Want printed books or swag? Check out our store!https://tinyurl.com/yc56p4hwWe also have books available in bookstores and comic shops:…
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(Jesse Walker, Author at Reason Magazine) Before Trump Had Elon Musk, Nixon Had Howard Phillips
Nixon’s director of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to shrink government, mostly failed, and was gone in less than a year. Sound familiar?
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(QC RSS) Comment Ça Va?
time for learning
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) A real force of alcoholic nature
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 Lockhorns, 9/8/25 Now, one of Loretta’s running gripes with Leroy is that he doesn’t make enough money…
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(Our World in Data) How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads
The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.
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(Policy of Truth) Is It Time to Bomb Columbia University?
I had a conversation the other day with a friend who just started law school at Columbia. This person told me that on the first day of orientation, the first-year law students were visited by officials from Columbia’s so-called Office of Institutional Equity (OIE). According to OIE, the chant “From the River to the Sea,…
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