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Apr 10, 2012

PHILOSOPHY News, Apr 10, 2012

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Obama Candidate Sketches Vision for World Bank
New York Times
He describes his development philosophy as essentially technocratic, focused on using data to determine which ideas work and which do not. In 2008, Dr. Kim's reputation in the global health community drew the Dartmouth board to him. Much as his World ...
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World Chefs-Cora stumps for healthier school meals
Reuters
A: "When we kicked off 'Chefs Move to School' program, her (Obama's) overallphilosophy was for chefs to adopt schools and go into those schools and make changes in a way that really motivates the school system. It's really us as chefs going around the ...
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Minimalist posters explain complex philosophical concepts with basic shapes
io9
When it comes to explaining philosophy, sometimes less is more — and we think this arresting collection of minimalist posters encompasses that idea perfectly. The illustrations you see featured below are from aa series entitled "Philographics," and ...
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Together Towards Tomorrow: Pluralism in India
Patheos (blog)
The title of his lecture was “The Contributions of WesternPhilosophy to the World Cultures and the Future of Philosophy.” However, I noted that most students in attendance were concerned about the exact opposite. Is there something about religiously ...
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Patheos (blog)
'Supposing Truth Is a Woman': The Song of Songs and Passover's Freedom
Huffington Post (blog)
... philosophers should be great "lovers," and not simply proficient technicians. Love, likewise, takes center stage on the Sabbath of the intermediate days of Passover, when in synagogues around the world Jews read the biblical book of Shir ha-Shirim, ...
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Alaskan Dream Cruises Welcomes Discover the World Marketing Aboard as its ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Discover has the same philosophy since it uses local experts, who are the best in the business in their countries and have worked in the travel industry for many years." According to Jenny Adams, CEO of Discover the WorldMarketing, "We are pleased ...
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CP World Report: Santorum, Nigeria Bombing, Muslim Ad, Mac Computer
Christian Post
Critics insist the photo and its story are typical of the one-child brutalphilosophy in that country to control the population. Full term babies are reportedly being forcefully aborted each year. In some cases, the mother dies.
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A New Books Poses the Question: At the Birth of Modern Science, Was Darwin ...
Discovery Institute
Laura J. Snyder, who teaches philosophy at St. John's University, offers what amounts to two narratives in one with her new book The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World.
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Discovery Institute
Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Hindu
International Business Times
By Palash R. Ghosh: Subscribe to Palash's RSS feed More than 65 years after the fall of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany remains an obsession with millions of people around the world. Adolf Hitler was one of the most prominent historical figures from the ...
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International Business Times
Conference to Bring Together Influential Cartoonists
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — An upcoming conference at the University of Chicago will bring together 17 world-renowned cartoonists for three days of discussion and public conversation. “Comics: Philosophy and Practice” will take place May 18-20 at the Reva and David ...
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Evidence in Science and Religion, Part Two
New York Times (blog)
The world has stayed still; only the devices of perception have changed and brought us closer to it. But this Baconian model of scientific progress in which data sits waiting to be revealed by superior instruments is now, the Princetonphilosopher ...
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The Mind Outside My Head
The New York Review of Books (blog)
The move from engineering to philosophy was prompted by conceptual problems he'd run into when first seeking to build robots. What does it mean that a subject sees an object? “People say the robot stores images of the world through its video camera.
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The New York Review of Books (blog)
Only double or nothing will do
Great Lakes Advocate
He proudly prescribes to the radical libertarianism of Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, recently described in The Guardian as the ''ugliest philosopher the postwar world has produced''. ''Rand's is the philosophy of the psychopath, a misanthropic ...
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David Gaider, Ken Levine, and Chris Avellone Discuss What Matters Most in ...
Kotaku
The differences in core philosophy shone right from the start of the panel, which opened with a short but complicated question: why does narrative matter in games? Gaider answered first, saying, "I think the importance of narrative is to give the ...
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Kenneth G. Ramey Salem-News.com
Salem-News.Com
Their absolute philosophy also elevated Evangelicals to the level of Holy See of the Republican Party of God where members seldom waver from what they are taught. Republicans and Evangelists together seem determined someday to use the Party to impose ...
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Salem-News.Com
Faculty dish on relevance of dystopian novels
The Ranger
First published in February 1932, Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World” depicts The World State, a homogenous world government, in 2540 AD Resources are plentiful because the government forbids the global population from exceeding 2 billion.
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Dunlop Announces New Tyre Developed Alongside The Honda WorldMotocross Team
Dirt Rider Magazine (blog)
The MX11F tyre delivers class-leading grip and is a substantial step-up in the competition, especially for cornering and straight-line traction, which demonstrates Dunlop's 'Ride With Confidence'philosophy. During the relationship with Dunlop, ...
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Dirt Rider Magazine (blog)
Robert Carter: Online First - A new day, and a new operating philosophy
North Jefferson News
In an amazingly short time, the online world has surpassed printed media of all forms. I've heard it everywhere I go to cover games: “I read your story on the Internet.” Pretty much anyone under age 45 — and a lot more over that age than you think ...
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Critic of Conservation Efforts Gets Critiqued
New York Times (blog)
But when they weigh in on history, philosophy, or sociology, they so often proceed like it's a rigor-less free-for-all…and end up spouting lots of gibberish. Turns out, the humanities are a discipline and have their own standards of rigor.
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Spartan Motors Names Dennis Schneider President of Company's ER Business
MarketWatch (press release)
"Since joining Spartan at the start of the year, Dennis has had an immediate impact on the company, focusing on our corporate goals of speed, innovation and globalization while maintaining our customer-centric philosophy," said Tom Gorman, ...
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Top Five Games Inspired by Existentialism
Piki Geek (blog)
Philosophy tends to be the area to explore such subjects, but plenty of works of literature and film have done the same, and games are just about catching up. Join me on a journey into a select few of them. If you happen to be using any of these games ...
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Aegis Receives A+ Rating in GRI's Sustainability Report
MarketWatch (press release)
This philosophy is embodied in our vision which perpetually resonates as Happy People, Happy Customers, Happy Shareholders and Happy World. We will continue to build and maintain our passionate resolve towards a sustainable enterprise, thereby making a ...
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Montvale Native Lauren Mahncke Earns Summer Research Award
ReadMedia (press release)
Mahncke, a sophomore English major and philosophy minor at Stonehill, will work with Edward McGushin, associate professor of Philosophy, on an Interview for Foucault Studies with Dr. James Bernauer, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston College.
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In French Vote, Sound and Fury From the Left
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Mr. Mélenchon, a lover of philosophy and of the novels of William Faulkner, is a stirring, amusing speaker, capturing the attention of his audience through his erudition and his coruscating humor aimed at bosses and bankers. He has branded himself "the ...
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National Brow Week: Benefit Cosmetics Raises Eyebrows!
Sacramento Bee
With over 400 Brow Bars across the US and over 650 Brow Bar locations around the globe, Benefit Cosmetics is the world leader in BROWS and employs more than 1200 licensed professional Aestheticians & Arch Experts, highly trained in the art of brow ...
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SOFTBANK Contributes to Japan's Recovery Process by Utilizing NetApp ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SUNNYVALE, CA, Apr 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Companies large and small all over the world depend on their information technology (IT) infrastructures to help drive business success. By making the right decisions, a company can transform its ...
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Author takes on his body in quest to be 'Drop Dead Healthy'
USA TODAY
Author AJ Jacobs completes his literary 'triathlon' with 'Drop Dead Healthy,' his account of trying to be the healthiest man in theworld. Author AJ Jacobs completes his literary 'triathlon' with 'Drop Dead Healthy,' his account of trying to be the ...
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USA TODAY
Head to Mackinac Island for a car-free piece of old-fashioned paradise
Southgate News Herald
During the 1950s, the Moral Re-Armament — a multinational group that promoted the philosophy of love, unselfishness, purity and honesty — constructed its World Conference Center on what became the resort property. A movie production sound stage was ...
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'Philosophy is not suited to the classroom': An essay on ascesis ...
By Andrew Taggart
[Of the modern world,] Thoreau will say, “We have philosophy professors [purveyors of theoretical discourse alone], but no philosophers [exemplars ofphilosophical life].” As for Schopenhauer, he wrote a pamphlet called Against Academic ...
Andrew Taggart
Together Towards Tomorrow: Pluralism in India « Faith Forward
By Benjamin Chicka
The title of his lecture was “The Contributions of Western Philosophy to theWorld Cultures and the Future of Philosophy.” However, I noted that most students in attendance were concerned about the exact opposite. Is there something about ...
Faith Forward
The Universe, the Cold War, and Dialectical Materialism « physics4me
By physicsgg
All the same, because of its traditional association to philosophical and religiousworld views it has often played a political role, however indirect. As a science of the universe at large, cosmology experienced a minor revolution in the late ...
physics4me
3:AM Magazine » Casual machines
By Susan Tomaselli
Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world. But many philosophers in the second half of ...
3:AM Magazine
jazztruth: The Shaggs: Philosophy Of The World
In 1969, Austin Wiggin brought his daughters to a studio near Boston, Massachusetts to cut a record, which ended up being called "Philosophy Of The World".
jazztruth.blogspot.com/2012/.../shaggs-philosophy-of-world.h...
Philosophy: Intelligibility and the Natural World - Word on Fire
Is Christianity a reasonable religion? With all the head scratching going on over creation theories and humanity's place within them, Word on Fire blog ...
wordonfire.org/.../Philosophy-Intelligibility-and-the-Natural-...
The Philosophy of War: New Film Depicts Bernard-Henri Lévy's Role ...
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was a major reason for his country's proactive role in supporting rebel efforts to topple Libyan autocrat Moammar ...
www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,825524,00.html
Whats Blizzards MoP 10 vs 25 Philosophy? - Forums - World of Warcraft
I would personally like to hear the Blizzard Philosophy on balancing the two different raids. Is either 25m or 10m supposed to have a higher dps check then the ...
us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4253969609
World Philosophy
World Philosophy. The greatest philosophy of all time...
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What are the worst problems in the world?: Philosophy Forums
BalanceofEquilibrium wrote: Press a button to launch 1000 nukes on the whole planet. It's easier to destroy something than to fix something. Also, it was a ...
forums.philosophyforums.com/.../what-are-the-worst-problem...
HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS, or, JOHNATHAN RÉE: THE DUDE OF ...
HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS, or, JOHNATHAN RÉE: THE DUDE OF THEPHILOSOPHY WORLD. by thepollyannafragments. I wish to begin this post by...
thepollyannafragments.wordpress.com/.../hope-for-the-hopele...
Philosophy, fungus and flourishing failure.... Welcome to Lars Lyer's ...
Welcome to Lars Lyer's world. Galway Advertiser, April 05, 2012. By Charlie Mcbride. LARS IYER is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon ...
www.advertiser.ie/.../philosophy-fungus-and-flourishing-failur...
Philosophy Now Forum • View topic - Great Films/Movies of the World
Tor_Hershman wrote: chaz wyman wrote: bus2bondi wrote: i have my reasons, reasons that haven't even been mine, reasons, that aren't mine, and i sense that, ...
forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8327...
What is Philosophy? An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent ...
There are all sorts of possible ways of interpreting it and finding meaning in theworld and in the lives that we live. So philosophy is about making sense of that ...
www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/.../what-is-philosophy...
hashkafah philosophy - Why did Hashem create the world? - Jewish ...
Some opinion say that Hashem created the world to bestow goodness on man ( and couldn't just place him in the Garden of Eden because it would be "bread of ...
judaism.stackexchange.com/.../why-did-hashem-create-the-wo...
The benefits of Bolshevik/Maoist philosophy - Discussion World Forum
While I am still not a "revolutionary" of any sort, when I read stories like this, I am beginning to think... Irina and Aleksei Trushin live in a 12 square meter room in ...
www.discussionworldforum.com/forum/showthread.php?p...
Roar won't change philosophy : The World Game on SBS
Latest news and updates on world soccer. SBS The World Game covers soccer live online through results feeds, video and news.
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