January 2011
10 posts
The Argument from the Fine-Tuning of the Universe
How lucky are we that you can’t make a portmanteau out of literati, glitterati?
Jan 31st
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I'm a Scientist Now!
I have a blackboard and everything! And I’m going to prove art!
Jan 30th
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Jan 25th
Ha!
“Harry Potter and the Wings of the Dove” “Harry Potter and the Golden Bowl” “Harry Potter and the Tree of Knowledge” “Harry Potter and the Jolly Corner”
Jan 24th
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In Other News
Are they just turning types of dating into movies now like they turned children toys into animated TV shows in the 80’s?
Jan 20th
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Two Aspects or Kinds of Semiotics
One aspect or kind of semiotics is cognitive: it (hopefully) identifies dependencies between our ways of thinking about various things, like for example how the way we think about James Bond stems from the way we think about the glory of the British empire or whatever. The important part is that the dependencies that it identifies are causal dependencies — i.e. that the way that we think...
Jan 20th
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In That Order?
Academia runs on sugar, adderall, caffine and shame.
Jan 13th
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Second Balcony Hiatus Clip Show: Know Your...
Jan 9th
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Reflections on the Hot Sauce at Mamoun's Falafel...
The older that I get the more content I am with just defending the pursuit of violently noisy or autistic art to people as “some days you want to have insanely spicy food/drink really bitter beer.”
Jan 5th
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Ways of Talking That I Used To Think Were Empty...
“Intuitive person” vs. “analytic person”: some people understand examples better than definitions, and communicate more aptly through examples than through definitions. “Life has no meaning” vs. “leading a meaningful life”: it looks to me like the feelings that evoke proclamations of meaninglesness or meaningfulness have to do with the absence or...
Jan 4th
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