Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Policy of Truth) One Step Closer to an ICE-Free Princeton
The Princeton-area League of Women Voters recently held a candidates’ forum for the four Democratic candidates for Municipal Council. They’d asked voters for questions to ask the candidates, and as it happens, my question was the first one asked (starts at minute 3 of the video): Would you be amenable to passing an “ICE-Free Princeton”…
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(The GiveWell Blog) GiveWell Opens RFI for Malaria Pilots and Research
GiveWell is launching a new request for information (RFI) to expand and strengthen our malaria grantmaking in Africa and help our donors make a greater impact. Expressions of interest can be submitted through one of two tracks, the first for malaria chemoprevention and vector control pilot programs and the second for research and evaluation. Submissions…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Kinda gross Monday
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! Luann, 5/11/26 So Luann has a boyfriend named “Phil” now, and sure, the strip has done a certain…
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(xkcd.com) Pullback Drive
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Our World in Data) Childhood stunting fell dramatically over the 20th century
What can countries with high stunting rates today learn from Japan’s experience of going from 70% to 5%?
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Mmm … sandwich
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! Judge Parker, 5/10/26 There have been hints in this strip that Judge Parker Senior is slipping away into…
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(Policy of Truth) NJ-12: The Trance Is the Motion
I’ve so far received campaign literature or text messages from seven of the candidates in the NJ-12 congressional race: Sue Altman, Brad Cohen, Adam Hamawy, Adrian Mapp, Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, Shanel Robinson, and Squire Servance. Of these, Hamawy is the only one who’s mentioned ending the Iran War as an explicit part of his pitch. The…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part IV: Allies and Mercenaries
This is the fourth part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthage’s complex, multi-ethnic armies were raised and structured. Last week, we looked at Carthage’s unusual system for raising vassal forces: long-serving Carthaginian generals could inhabit positions within the personalist, non-state mobilization systems of Numidia and Iberia, enabling them to…
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