The graph is at Facebook, based on Gapminder data. Let us give thanks to science, technology, reason, freedom, entrepreneurship, humanism, and the belief in progress — i.e., the Enlightenment vision made real. Here also is a longer-timeline static chart. Click to enlarge. Source.
Child mortality’s wonderful decline: 13-second graph Read More »
My subscribers at thinkspot can join me on Wednesday, December 4th at 7:30 Central Time for my first premium livestream Q&A session. Ask me anything about philosophy and my related areas of expertise, or any follow-up questions from my November livestream lecture. (If you’re not already on thinkspot, sign up to join the site and
My first livestream Q&A at thinkspot, Dec. 4 Read More »
“Go back to the ovens!” shouted at Jews at a university in Canada, in the Toronto borough in which I was born. Quick thoughts: 1. Most Canadians are great people and will be appalled at this sub-human display. 2. The hostility was so bad that politicians from *both* sides of the major divide in Canadian
“Go back to the ovens!” shouted at Jews at a university in Canada Read More »
Advance information here at the True Arrow Events site: My themes will be emphasizing the positive and solutions: What comes after postmodernism?
Australia tour, March 2020 Read More »
I understand: (1) Climate is not weather, except when it is. (2) Global warming means milder winters but also harsher winters. Far from expert on the issue, but can USA Today please up its science-journalism game? The video accompanying this article promises to explain why “Climate change is making winters colder despite rising temperatures and
Science journalism for non-experts on the climate change issue Read More »
* An angry atheist shows up at a Catholic hospital needing treatment. * A sexist says he prefers not to have a woman doctor. * A surgeon realizes that his patient is a suspected pedophile. Medical ethics for professionals: Does one treat even blasphemers, misogynists, and perverts to the best of one’s abilities? And the
Should racists get medical care? Read More »
“I devoutly believe,” the philosopher William James said, “in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium.” What does that require of us as citizens? That we feel “conscious of our work as an obligatory service to the state. We should be owned, as soldiers are by the army …” [emphasis in the original].
Wm. James on socialism and slavery Read More »