Dang…this is something I wouldn’t want to see if I were in the hospital, or visiting someone I liked who was in the hospital.
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Dang…this is something I wouldn’t want to see if I were in the hospital, or visiting someone I liked who was in the hospital.
Isis reports on a colleague including sexist graphical abstracts with his papers.
The last one looks like this:
Haha. So funny. So science. [Read more…]
Update: Facebook finally took it down. Good. Now for all the rest of them.
Thanks to Udo for alerting us to this page.
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Just to be clear.
And trigger warning again, because this is a horrifying photo.
I reported this photo with the text to Facebook. [Read more…]
Remember last fall Nick Cohen wrote about the appalling conditions for migrant workers in Qatar in the run-up to the World Cup? Like, How many more must die for Qatar’s World Cup?
Not all the fatalities are on construction sites. The combination of back-breaking work, nonexistent legal protections, intense heat and labour camps without air conditioning allows death to come in many guises. To give you a taste of its variety, the friends of Chirari Mahato went online to describe how he would work from 6am to 7pm. He would return to a hot, unventilated room he shared with 12 others. Because he died in his sleep, rather than on site, his employers would not accept that they had worked him to death. There are millions of workers like him around the Gulf. [Read more…]
Another vile Facebook page that gets reported only for Facebook to reply that the page doesn’t violate community standards. Oh really? Despite the graphic photographs of mob violence?
Trigger warning, because of the graphic photographs.
The page is Uganda Youth Coalition Against Homosexuality. [Read more…]
One reason (one that most people are probably already aware of, at least intuitively) for adults not to model lying to children.
A new experiment is the first to show a connection between adult dishonesty and children’s behavior, with kids who have been lied to more likely to cheat and then to lie to cover up the transgression. [Read more…]
NPR has a great story about an inspirational music teacher and what students get from her teaching. I’m not going to lie, I’m a sucker for stories like that.
Debra Kay Robinson Lindsay rehearses one more time with her Honors Chorus group before a concert for Music in Our Schools month, a national event to celebrate music and emphasize its importance in school curriculum.
(Students singing) [Read more…]
Why did nobody think of it before? Get a homicide detective to investigate the Jesus story. Of course! Then even the small minority of people who are atheists will throw in the towel.
A New Jersey church will put a spin on the Easter story by bringing in a professional detective to examine Christ’s death and resurrection. [Read more…]
OB: As a fan of philosophy I’ve been delighted to see the rave reviews for Plato at the Googleplex in major media – the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Slate, NPR, The Atlantic. This has to be a good thing: a sign that philosophy can be made interesting to the reading public, and itself a step to getting more people interested in philosophy. It’s all the more gratifying because part of your point, as I understand it, is to show readers that philosophy has value and has not been rendered superfluous by science. Can you tell us a little about why philosophy does indeed have value?
RG: I’ve been delighted to see the rave reviews, too.
Okay, why is philosophy of value? The short answer is that it addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone. There are of course, technical, narrow philosophical questions of concern to only professional philosophers, and I don’t mean to disparage them, since I’ve spent a good part of my life on them. But what I’m speaking about here are problems that just about all of us confront in virtue of our being thinking humans: What—if anything— are our lives about? Even if they’re not really about anything—goodbye to the old monotheistic usurpation of this question—can we find answers that will allow us to maximize our own flourishing and—of equal if not greater importance—reasons to care about the flourishing of others? (Caring about ourselves comes kind of naturally to us.) Philosophy has been addressing such questions and making significant, if invisible, progress with them almost ever since there’s been philosophy. [Read more…]
Hey who knew, god has a Facebook page – or rather, God, since if there’s a Facebook page, the person behind it must be a person, i.e. God.
It’s pretty funny.
Here’s another one.
Let me save you
From what I’m going to do to you if you don’t worship me.
It’s having some innocent fun with Fred Phelps, naturally.