Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday quotables
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, 5/23/26 I’ve given it a bit of thought and I’ve come to the conclusion that “The…
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(The GiveWell Blog) May 2026 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Distasteful Friday
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, 5/22/26 The sad thing here is that Alexander and Cookie can’t actually hear what Dagwood is jamming…
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(xkcd.com) Neutrino Project
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. Apparently, MLK went on a speaking tour that began in April and continued into June: UCLA, Oberlin, Antioch, and the University of the West Indies (Jamaica), among others. It’s interesting that the non-commencement spee…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. I don’t think either of my cases are hard. They’re paradigms of the commencement speech genre. King’s Oberlin speech is a paradigm at the high end, and Peterson’s is more ordinary. But I will write up …
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(The GiveWell Blog) Podcast Episode 30: What a Decade of Iron Funding Has Taught Us
Anemia, which is commonly caused by iron deficiency, can cause fatigue, cognitive impairment, and complications during pregnancy—and it affects roughly a quarter of the world’s population. Over the last decade, GiveWell has directed nearly $50 million to programs to address this health issue. Because of the large number of people affected and the low cost…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Tomasi and Flier on “Commencement Neutrality” by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. MLK gave the commencement speech at Antioch College on June 19th, 1965 (in my hometown, Yellow Springs, OH), five days after the Oberlin address. Probably quite similar in content to the Oberlin speech (literally “woke&…
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