Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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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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(QC RSS) Who Do You Stan?
Just girl stuff
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(xkcd.com) Chess Variant
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Does he think she can buy her own plane tickets or what
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, 9/7/25 I myself am not a parent and don’t presume to fully understand how they have…
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(Policy of Truth) The Mikie Sherrill Sweatbox
I saw this on Facebook just now. The “her” is Mikie Sherrill, Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey. To my regret, I volunteered for her 2017-2018 campaign for Congress (along with Chelsea Handler and other assorted idiots), and avidly promoted her here at PoT. It reminds me of a scene in Jean-Claude Van Damme’s…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Saturday is for death
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! Beetle Bailey, 9/6/25 Hmm, Sarge managed to knock himself unconscious after landing on his tailbone, presumably from some…
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(Policy of Truth) “Not the Time for Cowardice”
Statement of Sadaf Jaffer in support of a municipal resolution supporting the Immigrant Trust Act, Montgomery (NJ) Town Council, Sept. 4. Good evening, As a former mayor and state legislator, I urge you to pass a resolution supporting the Immigrant Trust Act and to do everything in your power to ensure that our state assemblymembers…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time we discussed the survival requirements (in food and textiles) of a peasant household as well as…
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