In a previous post, I raised some remarks from psychologist of morality Jonathan Haidt, in which he discussed his theory that moral thinking appeals to 5 essential modules hardwired into our brains by evolution. In the interview I cited from a couple of years ago he only referred to 4 of the 5 modul ...
Stained glass artwork at National LIberty Museum Each day as I travel to Chemical Heritage Foundation, I walk through the heart of old Philadelphia, where history is found in layers. This city is over 325 years old, whereas the towns in Utah where I come from can barely claim 150 years. Just about e ...
When I was twelve or thirteen I started buying The Times newspaper for its daily chess column: I would follow a grandmaster game by reading the notations and making the corresponding moves on a chessboard at home. Afterwards, I would rearrange my pieces into the configuration of that day's chess pro ...
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Hello Friends: Rock Song by Dan Sheehan is the fifteenth song to be featured on my Blog as part of my mission to provide you with inspiration through songs that have been performed by musicians on A live with Clive over the past couple of years. Dan performed Rock Song during his first interview on ...
In BoomTown’s bold quest to annoyingly stick a Flip digital video camera in the face of every Yahoo senior exec, this week I worked the last nerve of its CTO and EVP of Products, Aristotle “Ari” Balogh. Actually, the 45-year-old Balogh is a very calm and pleasant man, especially considering the huge ...
“The ‘utopias’ of the twentieth century rested on the myth of self-creation, self-foundation, and on the self-sufficiency of mankind, conceived to be capable of rebuilding any lost heritage. They claimed that one could say nothing about mankind, per se. The reexamination of totalitarianism therefore ...
Some day down the road, I hope to sift all my thoughts on empathy and “wise Latinas judges” in light of Nietzsche’s wealth of insights into perspectival knowledge as a more virile knowledge than the emasculation that comes through objectivity. ( Genealogy of Morals III:12) But to hold us over in the ...
[ Adam Hart] Danny Ferry can be thankful for that. At least Shaquille O’Neal — his new prize acquisition — did not “kindergarten teacher showing her class the pictures”-style show the media, ownership, God, cameras and dozens of school children a photo of Danny Ferry in some sort of pre-fame naked p ...
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