May 2011
Royal Wedding 2011 photos
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-royal-wedding-2011/2011/04/29/AFWFwmBF_gallery.html?hpid=z2#photo=1
Why do Americans still dislike atheists?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-americans-still-dislike-atheists/2011/02/18/AFqgnwGF_story.html
‘The Good Wife’ and Its Women
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/fashion/01CULTURAL.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
My Libya, Your Libya, Our Libya, By ROGER COHEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/opinion/01cohen.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
April 2011
An Anti-College Backlash?
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/an-anti-college-backlash/73214/
In 2009, only 24.4 percent of American faculty...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower-by-professor-x.html?ref=books&src=me&pagewanted=print
Maybe X has actually written a book about shame....
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower-by-professor-x.html?ref=books&src=me&pagewanted=print
X and his wife got snookered in the housing...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower-by-professor-x.html?ref=books&src=me&pagewanted=print
“What grade does one give a college student who...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower-by-professor-x.html?ref=books&src=me&pagewanted=print
IN THE BASEMENT OF THE IVORY TOWER: Confessions...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower-by-professor-x.html?ref=books&src=me&pagewanted=print
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower/6810/
Nobody Puts Condoleezza Rice in a Corner
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/magazine/mag-01talk-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print
Modern Love: Contest Winner: Even in Real Life,...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/fashion/01Modern.html?_r=1
hiremebecauseimsmart: “Markets can indeed organize...
The Grass is Indeed Greener in India and China for...
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1824670
Lectures on Cosmology
http://newton.kias.re.kr/04winter/kim.pdf
http://newton.kias.re.kr/04winter/lyth.pdf
http://newton.kias.re.kr/04winter/ferreira.pdf
Astrophysical Measurement of the Equation of State...
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1002/1002.3153v2.pdf
We present the first astrophysical measurement of the pressure of cold matter above nuclear saturation density, based on recently determined masses and radii of three neutron stars. The pressure at higher densities are below the predictions of equations of state that account only for nucleonic degrees of freedom, and thus present a...
We demonstrate, however, that this selection...
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1006/1006.2834v2.pdf
THE BLACK HOLE MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE GALAXY
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1006/1006.2834v2.pdf
We use dynamical mass measurements of 16 black holes in transient low-mass X-ray binaries to infer the stellar black hole mass distribution in the parent population. We find that the observations are best described by a narrow mass distribution at 7.8 ± 1.2 M⊙. We identify a selection effect related to the choice of targets for optical...
Status of neutron star–black hole and binary...
http://iopscience.iop.org./0264-9381/26/11/114004/pdf/0264-9381_26_11_114004.pdf
Methods for unifying inconsistent pairs of...
http://philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/ajl/2011/2011_4.pdf
Even though I'm on the paleo-diet, I don't have to...
Inconsistent Geometry
http://www.amazon.com/Inconsistent-Geometry-Chris-Mortensen/dp/1848900228/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1304154037&sr=8-1
The Theory of Inconsistency has a long lineage, stretching back to Herakleitos, Hegel and Marx. In the late twentieth-century, it was placed on a rigorous footing with the discovery of paraconsistent logic and inconsistent mathematics. Paraconsistent logics,...
Oh, yeah. That decadent all-the-toppings Ben and...
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-plato-can-save-your-life/201104/keys-happiness-feeling-good-or-doing-good
"People don't get what they deserve. They just get...
Friedrich Nietzsche
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He was interested in the enhancement of individual and cultural health, and believed in life, creativity, power, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world...
The Cost of the College Bubble
http://popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2514
CNN’s Piers Morgan, who had predicted that the...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/arts/television/in-royal-wedding-television-coverage-british-and-americans-differ-tv-watch.html?_r=1&hp
Does time flow or lapse or pass? Are the future or...
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/
Philosophy of Chemistry
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chemistry/
hemistry is the study of the structure and transformation of matter. When Aristotle founded the field in the 4th century BCE, his conceptual grasp of the nature of matter was tailored to accommodate a relatively simple range of observable phenomena. In the 21st century, chemistry has become the largest scientific discipline, producing over half a...
The Impossible University
http://www.hss.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/inconsistent-images/impossible-uni/
Inconsistent Images
http://www.hss.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/inconsistent-images/
Inconsistent Mathematics
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathematics-inconsistent/
Inconsistent mathematics is the study of the mathematical theories that result when classical mathematical axioms are asserted within the framework of a (non-classical) logic which can tolerate the presence of a contradiction without turning every sentence into a theorem.
Change is so pervasive in our lives that it almost...
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/change/
hiremebecauseimsmart: Superposition of Feelings
The act of writing is like the collapse of a quantum wave. So many things are in your mind, interacting with each other, unsaid. Many truths — some at odds with others — could be spun into a thread. But whatever you write crystallizes as the story. The other ephemera die.
Since speech is serial, it’s hard to portray the composite quality of ...
Perspectivism, inconsistent models, and...
http://individual.utoronto.ca/anjan/downloads/perspectivism.pdf
‘The notion of a physical world that emerges from...
An Interview with Anjan Chakravartty
http://individual.utoronto.ca/anjan/downloads/sophia_interview.pdf
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism:...
http://individual.utoronto.ca/anjan/downloads/norris.pdf
The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of...
http://individual.utoronto.ca/anjan/downloads/cartwright.pdf
Intertheory Relations in Physics
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-interrelate/
Many issues in the philosophy of science concern the nature of theories and certain relations that may obtain between them. Typically, one is interested in the degree to which a successor to a given theory “goes beyond” (both descriptively and explanatorily) the theory it succeeds. Most often these issues are framed in the context...
Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atomism-modern/
Atomism in the form in which it first emerged in Ancient Greece was a metaphysical thesis, purporting to establish claims about the ultimate nature of material reality by philosophical argument. Versions of atomism developed by mechanical philosophers in the seventeenth century shared that characteristic. By contrast, the knowledge of atoms that...
Interpretations of Probability
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/
‘Interpreting probability’ is a commonly used but misleading name for a worthy enterprise. The so-called ‘interpretations of probability’ would be better called ‘analyses of various concepts of probability’, and ‘interpreting probability’ is the task of providing such analyses. Or perhaps better still, if our goal is to transform inexact...
Dispositions
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dispositions/
The glass vase on my desk is fragile. It should be handled with care because it it is likely to shatter or crack if it is knocked, dropped, or otherwise treated roughly. The vase has certain dispositions, for example the disposition to shatter when dropped. But what is this disposition? It seems on the one hand to be a perfectly real property, a...
One imagines that he is deeply, perpetually,...
