Following up on two posts on the achievements of modern anatomy (“The Knife Man” and “Anatomy and Philosophy”), here is St. Augustine (354-430) disapproving of the practice: “With a cruel zeal for science, some medical men, who are called anatomists, have dissected the bodies of the dead, and sometimes even of sick persons who have
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The UAE’s University of Sharjah and the CSR Al Ahli Group are hosting a conference on the theme of “Innovation and Global Competition”. I’ll be participating in a panel headed by Eduardo Marty on Monday, the 22nd of February 2021 from 4pm to 6pm UAE time (UTC +4). My theme is: Leadership for InnovationIf you
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Our culture seems intent upon reviving the wisdom of those other ancient Greek philosophers: Mediocrates, Toiletes, and Idiocratus.
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Erik Torenberg is co-founder of Village Global, an early-stage venture capital fund backed by the founders of Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other leading companies. He hosts a podcast whose guests have ranged from Bill Gates to Tyler Cowen to Terry Gross to Deirdre McCloskey. In our discussion, we cover the content and impact of postmodern
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From Aaron Mesh’s interview with Gregory McKelvey: “We must put ourselves in the minds of someone who probably rightfully believes the world is ending or, at a minimum, is on the brink of being unrecognizable with incredible amounts of death, pain and climate chaos. If the world is ending, some people are going to act
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Professor Nazi Azad is working on a translation into Urdu of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
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Bradford Harris is a Ph.D. from Stanford University in History of Science and Technology. Our 59-minute conversation ranges over these topics: Locations: everywhere podcasts are found, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. YouTube link follows:
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Courage, rather than cowardice and intolerance, in seeking truth.
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