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  Church of the Sweet Ride — Authority: 122
  If you havent read David Foster Wallace, youre shorting yourself some Quality.Full stop.I hadnt read this piece before, which remains timely and relevant. Go read it, Ill wait.I would just add that, short of turning into one of those cyclists who make it about self righteousness of one sort or the other (whether it be ...
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• Happy Birthday Allama Iqbal

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 525
  Today is the birthday of Pakistan’s National Poet/Philosopher Dr. Muhammad Iqbal’s Birthday.    This above is a beautiful song that he wrote so many years ago and which has become the anthem of Pakistan’s children. Posted in Pakistan Tagged: Allama Iqbal, Dr. Iqbal, Iqbal Lahori, Lab pay aati hai, ...
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• Philosopher of taste

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 965
  CHINON, FRANCE -- France has always been a nation of philosophers. Descartes contributed rigorous thinking. Montesquieu and Voltaire inspired democracy, and Sartre made it cool to despair. It was inevitable, sooner or later, that along would come Jacques Puisais, philosopher of taste.
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• I know not with what

  
  Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more — Authority: 614
  “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones .” ~ Albert Einstein (A nuclear mushroom cloud) Picture by: dunno source Caption by: mrjodie via Advanced Lol Builder » Recaption This! » View All Captions
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• David Chalmers and the Singularity that will probably not come

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the “hard problem” of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like humans, and yet have no conscious thought (I explained clearly ...
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• Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer’s ex gets restraining order against him

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, November 06 (ANI): Austin Powers star Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer’s ex-girlfriend has got a restraining order against him over “safety fears”.The former beauty queen received the judgment on her favor to stop the actor from coming close to her, reports the Daily Star.Troyer is notable for his height of 2 ...
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• Supporting adults who really don’t deserve it

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 130
  Today was a "good" day at the bus stop. The dozen and a half first- and second-grader crammed into a shelter not really big enough to hold them and either sat quietly on the bench or lined up at the entrance. They were as unflinching as a guard at Buckingham Palace. Chit-chat was minimal - it was as if they could ...
  4 days ago

• There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

  
  2009 Artist Quote of the Day — Authority: 125
  Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th- century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German-language style and displaying a fondness ...
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• Becoming one of THOSE moms

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 130
  Im not a big meeting person - Ive sat through too many in my life to voluntarily assign myself more. Im not a big on telling schools how to do their jobs - as much as I like to rail about goofy education policies, when it comes down to a "boots on the ground" basis, I work within the local structure and supplement at ...
  5 days ago

• Ayn Rand Revisited

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 723
  Two new biographies about the irascible and idiosyncratic Ayn Rand, objectivist philosopher and ham-fisted mistress of the capitalist morality tale, show how her rocky Russian childhood and her subsequent self-reinvention campaign in America (partly conducted in Hollywood, of course) influenced her work and how her ...
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• What do you mean, I have to be responsible?

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 130
  A 6-year-old begs for weeks to play in the front yard without mom skulking over him. Mom finally gives him a chance at a 15-minute test drive. What happens during that quarter of an hour? The 6-year-old cheerfully complies with all rules and promptly goes back in, without making a fuss, when his times up. The ...
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• Putting God out of the ethics business

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  By now you may have heard about or seen the "good without God" posters in the subways of New York City and elsewhere. Media outlets from the New York Times to Fox News have characterized them as ads promoting atheism. Yet while the campaign aims to reach out to nonbelievers, it also raises a broader issue--something ...
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• Advice from a Philosopher, Grinning

  
  Journeys in Alterity — Authority: 116
  "No one should ever presume to know what Derrida means...about anything." - Richard Kearney
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• Philosophy: Epicurus on Happiness

  
  shapeshift.net — Authority: 127
  Although much of what is known about the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus derives from later followers and commentators, many of his ideas about nature and physics presaged important scientific concepts of our time. (24 min)
  1 week ago

• Mamma, don’t let your babies grow up to be race fans

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 130
  It was the most spectacular crash - and not in a good way - since the one about six months earlier at that same track . A track driver Mark Martin calls "the lotto" because winning has almost as much to do with dumb luck at avoiding crashes as it does with skill. You dont drive Talladega. You survive it. And one ...
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• Aiming Where We Want to Go

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
    My friend, Fletcher Millmore, is a British car mechanic and a philosopher.   He was explaining an observation of his to me the other day.    Fletcher does a lot of driving and one day while traveling down an empty highway, he started looking at skid marks on long stretches of road.   Nothing for miles ...
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• The Origins of the US Dollar

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Philosopher Ayn Rand once pointed out that it was Americans who coined the phrase to make money. Rather than seeing wealth as something looted or distributed,
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• Will Shamita Shetty Be Able To Attend Her Sister’s Wedding?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Subhash K JhaThere’s a chance that Shamita may not be able to attend her sister’s wedding. According to highly-placed sources at Colors there seems to be no provision to get a contestant out of a game show for a wedding.Hard as it may be to believe, Shilpa Shetty’s kid-sister now locked away in [...]
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• A morning at school puts it all in perspective

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 130
  One boy froze as if paralyzed when the plastic bag of foam spider parts landed on his desk. "I cant get it open," the first-grader pleaded. "Can you do it?" I did, but uncertainty seemingly gripped him again. "What do I do now?" "Why dont you look at the example Mrs. M did and put on the board? I bet you can figure ...
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• Emergence research: Just how did matter become mattering?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  I work in a field called emergence, which is trying to solve such gynormous mysteries as how information emerges from energy, how life emerges from chemistry, how selves emerge from atoms, how soulishness emerges from life, how purpose emerges from non-purpose. Were not asking whether they do. Evidence suggests ...
  1 week ago

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