Category Archives: Religion
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (March 8, 2015)
Consciousness Galen Strawson has a great article about the history of the philosophy of consciousness. Education How Higher Education perpetuates Intergenerational Inequality. Ethics Sex while drunk: a moral dilemma. Why Our Children don’t think there are moral facts Family If … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Feb. 8, 2015)
Crime Disadvantaged youths who were given summer jobs committed fewer violent crimes than their unemployed peers, even after their jobs ended. Psychopathic violent offenders’ brains can’t understand punishment. Environment Here is a chart of US Congress denying climate change: Epistemology … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Jan. 20, 2015)
Death What to do with our dead bodies? Charlie Huenemann offers a nice proposal. Feminism I mentioned before about a charged incident that happened to my colleague, Cheryl Abbate. She has posted a blog about the aftermath. Race Judith Butler … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Dec. 10, 2014)
Philosophy More news about the smearing of Cheryl Abbate. An anonymous post analyzes how McAdams blog post was factually incorrect. Very good and very impressive! Listen to an impressive interview of Simone de Beauvoir (in English) by Studs Terkel taken in … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Nov. 17, 2014)
Books The book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is about a young man, Chris McCandless, who left his comfortable life outside of Washington D.C., gave his money away and burned the rest, and headed to the Alaskan wilderness. Why did … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Jan. 12, 2014)
Abortion Vermont introduces a bill affirming a right to an abortion. Animals Dogs can sense magnetic variations of the earth. Economics The Pope recently made comments critiquing capitalism. The Atlantic has a response by saying the Pope is ignorant about world economics. Toward the … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today (Nov. 10, 2013)
Abortion Why the Pro-Life movement needs some philosophy. Advice Kareem Abdul-Jabar’s advice for boys becoming men. Anti-natalism Another site dedicated to the childfree lifestyle. Education U.S. Catholic schools are no better than public schools. Environment What would the world look … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 01/15/2012
Aesthetics Photography in the style of ancient Chinese art. A guide on buying a camera. Books An interactive account of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Culture Humans in big gatherings Economics Facts about Gold. A visualization of the economic inequality in America. … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s in the News Today: 12/23/2011
Wow! With the semester over, I’m finally caught up with the news. Once the semester starts again, I’ll probably have a harder time blogging frequently, but we shall see how the next semester is treating me. Till then, here’s some … Continue reading
Let’s See What’s In the News Today: 11/06/2011
Abortion World map of abortion laws. Culture Everyone laments that the world is overpopulated since the world has reached 7 billion people. But what if it turns out the world is actually underpopulated? 10,000 Solutions is a site that Arizona … Continue reading