2012/1/25



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #cats

12:22



Quick: How many countries was America at war with last year?

If you accept the old fashioned notion that to drop a bomb on a country is to be at war with it, the answer is, oh, half a dozen or so. As Peter W. Singer points out in a New York Times opinion piece, since the beginning of last year we’ve conducted drone strikes in six countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia… and… and… well, Singer doesn’t list them, so I’m not sure what the sixth one is.

Robert Writght - America’s New Strategy: Endless War(s) (P.S. Libya.)

Source: The Atlantic

#patriotism #the atlantic #robert wright #endless war

2012/1/20



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #cats

12:20



Penny Arcade - Hmm

Not only is a company a collective person made of many individuals, an industry association like the ESA is a collective person made of many collective persons.

Whoa…

Yo dawg, I heard you like Inception, so I etc.

Pushing this in the other direction, is your brain its own thing apart from the body? Is a cell? A molecule? Is Aristotle right that the function of the thing is to fulfill its telos, and this is what distinguishes the nested substances of the world?

Penny Arcade - Hmm

Not only is a company a collective person made of many individuals, an industry association like the ESA is a collective person made of many collective persons.

Whoa…

Yo dawg, I heard you like Inception, so I etc.

Pushing this in the other direction, is your brain its own thing apart from the body? Is a cell? A molecule? Is Aristotle right that the function of the thing is to fulfill its telos, and this is what distinguishes the nested substances of the world?

Source: penny-arcade.com

#Penny Arcade #webcomics #mereology #metaphysics of personhood

2012/1/19



#Turing test #Cartesian test #The Atlantic #Daoism #computation

12:24



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #cats #Maria!

2012/1/18



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #cats #Sakuragi

12:24



#Washington Post #patriotism

2012/1/17



#Wired #weights and measures #Qin dynasty #metric system #Europe was a backwater

12:55



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #cats #Maria!

2012/1/16



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #Hawaii #Flowers

12:20



Honolulu Magazine - Philosophy for the Kids

Hey look, it’s a story about Dr. J and P4C:


  Also seated with them is the affable Thomas Jackson, Ph.D.—“Dr. J” to everyone at the school—who leads the group in its philosophical circle of inquiry. Jackson, through the Philosophy for Children (P4C) Hawaii program, has spent the past 27 years working on changing the impression of philosophy as an elitist, academic musing into something more accessible by bringing it to public school classrooms.
  
  “Our understanding of philosophy has become much more user friendly,” explains Jackson. “We take issues that we care about and learn the skills to think more deeply, together, about these things. In a group activity, we realize the enormous richness of the people around us and what resources they are for helping us think more deeply.”

Honolulu Magazine - Philosophy for the Kids

Hey look, it’s a story about Dr. J and P4C:

Also seated with them is the affable Thomas Jackson, Ph.D.—“Dr. J” to everyone at the school—who leads the group in its philosophical circle of inquiry. Jackson, through the Philosophy for Children (P4C) Hawaii program, has spent the past 27 years working on changing the impression of philosophy as an elitist, academic musing into something more accessible by bringing it to public school classrooms.

“Our understanding of philosophy has become much more user friendly,” explains Jackson. “We take issues that we care about and learn the skills to think more deeply, together, about these things. In a group activity, we realize the enormous richness of the people around us and what resources they are for helping us think more deeply.”

Source: honolulumagazine.com

#philosophy #philosophy for children #p4c #university of hawaii Mānoa #tom jackson

2012/1/15



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #Hawaii #Flowers

12:23



#the economist #expatriotism #Japan

2012/1/14



Source: 3dporch.com

#3DS #Wigglepic #Shingon #Buddhism #Honolulu #Hawaii #Lei

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