In Which Our Heroine Learns The World Is Not Flat
Oh Stephen Fry, this is just wrong. Saying that philosophers don’t tell you how to live your life is… I actually have a hard time getting my head around that point of view, given that many philosophers...
View ArticleFood is Complex
Food is complex. That’s really the only conclusion I can draw after reading Francis Lam’s NYTimes article Cuisines Mastered as Acquired Tastes, and the following back and forth Lam had with his friend...
View ArticleLies, Damned Lies, and Mehdi Hasan on Abortion
I got really annoyed this morning. I woke up, and basically the first thing I saw on Twitter was numerous retweets and comments about a HuffPo UK article on abortion and social progressives attempting...
View ArticlePower Broker Bioethicists
Alice Dreger has a new post up discussing How to be a Bioethicist. She admits, upfront, that she sort of sucks as one, and not for reasons the snarkier or more vindictive readers of this blog might...
View ArticleFound Those Million-odd Pieces
Oh, I was doing so well until I wasn’t. But at least when I wasn’t, I was really committed to it. I’m not sure what threw the anxiety into overdrive today, but by about 10am I was a quivering mess. …...
View ArticleIn Which An Editor Obnoxiously Brags About Her Author
I spent much of the fall grumbling – mostly good-naturedly – about editing a dissertation on the dual-use dilemma in the life sciences. I fell into editing the project rather late,1 which led to some...
View ArticleSciAm Doesn’t Think Sexism in Science is “An Issue”–Will They Think Boycotts...
There has been a lot of talk this year about supporting women in science and related tech fields, about how it’s not okay to sexually harass a graduate student or colleague, about how rape jokes aren’t...
View ArticleIs Science Online a Con or a Conference?
As is inevitable in a situation like this, the dialog around Bora Zivkovic’s harassment of women has moved beyond his actions and resignations, and is now looking at the larger community and what sort...
View ArticleAmazon’s “Toxic Culture” Doesn’t Come from My Needs as a Customer
Oh Internet, I tire. I really, really tire of reading rapidly tossed off think pieces that want to make broadly declarative statements as if they were the first to ever encounter such an idea. For...
View ArticleGoogle demonstrates people dismiss philosophy when they don’t understand it
Earlier this week, Chris Urmson, chief of Google’s self-driving cars project, made a pretty big mistake for someone so high up at Google: he dismissed philosophers and the trolley problem as irrelevant...
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