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As fair from the Left as The Spectator is from the Right.

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Along Route 62, between Barrydale and Ladysmith is the world-famous Ronnies Sex Shop. It is one of the most popular pubs on the route and travellers on the road stop for refreshments and a photograph of themselves next to the ‘Ronnies Sex Shop’ sign.

Walter Tevis - Rent Control - about lovers making time stop

Sadec 1965 is a 60-minute solo storytelling show best described as "Motorcycle Diaries" meet "Eat, Pray, Love" set in Vietnam.

(This piece is now the basis of a new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.) Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech…

Interactive philosophy tests and activities designed to tell you what you don't want to know about yourself.

As the world shrinks, so our capacity for effective moral action grows. Peter Singer indicates how this may change our lives.

Four books, and a smattering of other items, that explain a growing idealistic movement

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Ioannidis 2015 paper - Science has always relied on reproducibility to build confidence in experimental results. Now, the most comprehensive investigation ever done about the rate and predictors of reproducibility in social and cognitive sciences has found that regardless of ...

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.

Hannah Arendt's experience of the Eichmann trial in 1961 and of the reaction to her book about this, Eichmann in Jerusalem, led her to think deeply about politics, truth, and plurality. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Samantha...

create art online, by AI

eliciting latent knowledge

And in a society where only certified learning is considered legitimate, self-directed learning becomes consumption

Nigel Warburton interview well known philosophers on important topics.

RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Some remarks on science, pseudoscience, and learning how to not fool yourself. Caltech’s 1974 commencement address.

See also "Aeon".

Fusion energy explained

David Graeber and David Wengrow - a new and different take on pre-agriculture humanity

The Critic exists to push back against a self-regarding and dangerous consensus that finds critical voices troubling, triggering, insensitive and disrespectful. The point is not provocation or trolling. The point of honest criticism is to better approach truth, not deny its possibility.

As fair from the Right as New Statesman is from the Left.

Seeds of Science is a DUBIOUS journal and community dedicated to nurturing maybe promising and ODD ideas.

Nick Bostrom

The future of humanity. Existential risk, the ethics of AI, transhumanism, and wise philanthropy.