@DylanPEL

One the hosts of The Partially Examined Life, a philosophy podcast and blog. Visit http://t.co/6I98YwChMH.

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Joined September 2012
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In NYC for PEL’s 10th Anniversary recording at Caveat! caveat.nyc/event/the-partial…
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In NYC for PEL’a 10th Anniversary recording at Caveat tomorrow! caveat.nyc/event/the-partial…
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“The basic reason why the concept of truth will never die is that to believe anything at all is itself to take a stand on its truth.” #SimonBlackburn #OnTruth
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There is no knowledge that is wrong. Only knowledge that is difficult, troubling, enlightening, liberating, and intoxicating. #OmarGhobash
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Don't let anyone tell you that a question buried is a question answered. #letterstoayoungmuslim #OmarGhobash
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Read it now -- The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Crawford #theworldbeyondyourhead #MatthewCrawford
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when a mechanic diagnoses that intermittent electrical gremlin...be quiet when you write the check...you are in the presence of genius.
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Not being able to borrow a book from a library is like not being able to eat at a restaurant
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Space-time got curves 100 years ago: A Century Ago, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Changed Everything, via @nytimes nytimes.com/2015/11/24/scien…
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@FredKiesche @PartiallyExLife Not on your end, Fred. Site got hammered and exhausted the RAM. Fixed now.
@FredKiesche @PartiallyExLife Just checked via Chrome on MacBook -- works.
Check out this cool perspective on the Earth and Moon from NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory: nasa.gov/feature/goddard/fro…
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A measure-system measures something inherent in nature; otherwise it has no connexion with nature at all. #whitehead
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Education is opportunity: Tom Hanks on His Two Years at Chabot College nyti.ms/1508PAq
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Here's my brief statement about the awful events in Paris. Vive Charlie Hebdo! p.ost.im/jG6HxY
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Nietzsche 1887: One thinks with a watch in one's hand, even as one eats one's midday meal while reading the latest news of the stock market
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Learn QFT in five minutes, with some extras on quantum gravity for chuckles:youtube.com/watch?feature=pl…
Patent sanity -- no patent protection for genes nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/su…

Justices, 9-0, Bar Patenting Human Genes (Published 2013)

The ruling will shape the course of research and testing, and it may alter the willingness of businesses to invest in understanding genetic material.

nytimes.com
Courtesy of Cormac McCarthy, the word for the day is "thrapple" as in "split the head of John Joel Glanton to the thrapple."
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