Funny philosophy videos?
There’s the beginning of a collection of funny philosophy videos on YouTube. I’ve pointed to a couple before (like the excellent Kant Attack Ad and the Noam Chomsky Show), but hopefully it will grow...
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Brian Leiter has done a nice little list of 10 Notable Philosophy Blogs, which gives a nice place to start if you like such things. And Dave Chalmers maintains a huge list of philosophy-related blogs,...
View ArticleThis year's "Mindset" list
As you may know, Beloit College makes up a “Mindset List” each year to reflect the world of the new incoming college students (born in about 1991) — what their life has included, and what it hasn’t....
View ArticleVarieties of PowerPoint minimalism
I often run across advice on PowerPoint presentations of the following sort: Keep your slides very simple, with as few words as possible. Lawrence Lessig might be the king radical of this sort of...
View ArticleNew machinery
I’ve put up new springs and weights to hold up the virtual facade of profron.net. Things might be funky here and there while I get everything tweaked and balanced.
View ArticleAnti-materialism in 4th-grade science
My son Oz (in 4th grade) brought home some homework covering the study of matter in his 4th grade science lesson. Here’s a couple of lines from the narrative page “explaining” atoms and matter: And on...
View ArticleThe end of Facebook
For me, anyway. Facebook never really worked for me anyway; but on top of that, there are lots of serious privacy concerns — see, for example: Facebook gives your info to advertisers, gets caught in...
View ArticleUncorrected statistics in brain imaging
I admit I’m prejudiced, and that I’ve enjoyed watching the recent blast of public exposure for problems in statistical inference in FMRI, undermining many of the central papers of the field, spurred...
View ArticleFunny philosophy videos?
There’s the beginning of a collection of funny philosophy videos on YouTube. I’ve pointed to a couple before (like the excellent Kant Attack Ad and the Noam Chomsky Show), but hopefully it will grow...
View ArticleLeiter's 10 Notable Philosophy Blogs
Brian Leiter has done a nice little list of 10 Notable Philosophy Blogs, which gives a nice place to start if you like such things. And Dave Chalmers maintains a huge list of philosophy-related blogs,...
View ArticleThis year's "Mindset" list
As you may know, Beloit College makes up a “Mindset List” each year to reflect the world of the new incoming college students (born in about 1991) — what their life has included, and what it hasn’t....
View ArticleVarieties of PowerPoint minimalism
I often run across advice on PowerPoint presentations of the following sort: Keep your slides very simple, with as few words as possible. Lawrence Lessig might be the king radical of this sort of...
View ArticleNew machinery
I’ve put up new springs and weights to hold up the virtual facade of profron.net. Things might be funky here and there while I get everything tweaked and balanced.
View ArticleAnti-materialism in 4th-grade science
My son Oz (in 4th grade) brought home some homework covering the study of matter in his 4th grade science lesson. Here’s a couple of lines from the narrative page “explaining” atoms and matter: And on...
View ArticleThe end of Facebook
For me, anyway. Facebook never really worked for me anyway; but on top of that, there are lots of serious privacy concerns — see, for example: Facebook gives your info to advertisers, gets caught in...
View ArticleUncorrected statistics in brain imaging
I admit I’m prejudiced, and that I’ve enjoyed watching the recent blast of public exposure for problems in statistical inference in FMRI, undermining many of the central papers of the field, spurred...
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