Even the best current "tools for thought" apps require you to remember to manually make all the connections between your ideas. Is anyone working on making the computer participate and help in this process? Suggesting connections? Finding missing links? I…

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From the Big bang to the Heat death of the universe

An imageboard or a bulletin board system [BBS] is a type of web forum that hosts discussions on various topics. These are normally posted in categorical subchannels called “boards”, in chronological order, arranged as “threads”, which is a succession of posts…

Noam Chomsky shines his light on the Russia-Ukraine war, the role of the media, propaganda, censorship in education, Orwell, Newspeak and language. Is there hop for human kind? Does Chomsky think there is light at the end of the tunnel?

He talks about his…

UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged to write … Continue reading →

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基思·特斯特是鲍曼的博士学生中最杰出的一位。他出身工人家庭，撰写了关于动物权利的论文，并于1992年出版了《动物与社会》（Animals and Society）一书。经过博士培养后，特斯特与导师保持着亲密的关系，成为他的朋友与合作者。特斯特并非鲍曼一手培养；在遇到鲍曼之前，他有着丰富的生活经验（尤其在动物权利方面）和严肃的学术背景。然而，他们的关系确实符合职业生涯耦合（career coupling）的三阶段模型：匹配（matching）、融合（fusion）和象征性合作（symbolic collaboration）。

We must keep the flame of pessimism burning: it is a virtue for our deeply troubled times, when crude optimism is a vice

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most brilliant and dangerous minds of the 19th century. His uncompromising and often brutal ideas smashed the comfortable presuppositions and assumptions of religion, morality and science. His was a world…