Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Character-Based Voting and Genocide by Academic Hiring and Genocide | Policy of Truth
[…] an essay I posted here a few weeks ago, I argued that genocidaires seeking lower-level electoral office […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Academic Hiring and Genocide
“In the literature of complaint and reform, and in the endless reports from distinguished groups identifying a crisis in some element or all of higher education in America, a key defect is often the absence of practical solutions.” –John V. Lombardi, How Universities Work, p. 31. In an essay I posted here a few weeks ago,…
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(Our World in Data) If we can make maternal deaths as rare as in the healthiest countries, we can save 275,000 mothers each year
Maternal mortality was much more common in the past. It is much lower today, but global inequalities are still large.
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(QC RSS) Melon Is Here
Hello Melon
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(xkcd.com) Stromatolites
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Barry rightfully refuses to risk his good rep as an editor and participant in the African diaspora wikiproject
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, 2/2/25 A fun thing about The Phantom (the comic strip) is that it’s one of the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sorry, nothing that goes on in the Bumstead home constitutes a “healthy lifestyle”
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! Blondie, 2/1/25 You know, this strip originally became a cultural sensation when it was about a dissolute failson…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: On the Gracchi, Part II: Gaius Gracchus
Last time, we started our retrospective on the Gracchi looking at the elder brother Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and his term as tribune of the plebs in 133 BCE; this week, we’ll wrap up this look by discussing Tiberius’ younger brother Gaius Sempronius Gracchus and his terms as tribune of the plebs in 123 and 122…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Terrible children (and old people to be fair)
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! Pluggers, 1/31/25 I actually sleep with a second pillow — not because it prevents me from falling out…
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