Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Our World in Data) Antipsychotic medications: a timeline of innovations and remaining challenges
Scientists have developed effective and safer antipsychotic medications, but much improvement is still needed.
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(QC RSS) Lost In The Crowd
a confederacy of dunces (four of them are Yay)
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(QC RSS) Residuals
This is a syndicated post, originally published by QC RSS at QC RSS.
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(xkcd.com) Three Kinds of Research
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) Pavel Durov and the BlackBerry Ratchet
Why do governments go after companies and executives of services of more weakly encrypted tools? It’s very hard, this early, to pierce through what’s going on with the French authorities’ arrest of Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram — but that doesn’t stop people from having pet theories. Was it retaliation from the US and…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Karaoke wedding band … you heard it here first
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! Pardon My Planet, 8/25/24 Ha ha, you guys, you know how Superman has heat vision, right? Well, what…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Machiavelli and the Weather Underground by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I’ve only given it a cursory read. I need to print it out and read it more carefully. I hadn’t read it before. It’s very good. I just belatedly happened to read Lukianoff and Haidt’s much-hyped Cod…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on John Davenport’s “The Democracy Amendments” by Why Don’t They All Just Fade Away? | Policy of Truth
[…] New Jersey): “Americans do not want a gerontocracy.” Following the argument of his Democracy Amendments, John makes the case for a constitutional amendment for age limits for […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Why Don’t They All Just Fade Away?
I missed this earlier, but the indefatigable John Davenport had an Op-Ed published in the August 15 issue of the Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey): “Americans do not want a gerontocracy.” Following the argument of his Democracy Amendments, John makes the case for a constitutional amendment for age limits for office: It is thus a safe…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Machiavelli and the Weather Underground by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Man, I wish Rothbard had remained this Rothbard: https://www.rothbard.it/articles/liberty-and-new-left.pdf LikeLike
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