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Daily Archive for April 8th, 2009

It’s nice to be right

Check out this, then this insightful April 6 The New York Times op/ed piece from David Brooks. Nice to know that others are finding less and less rationality–or philosophy–in our culture, too.
Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of morality. In this view, moral thinking is more like aesthetics.
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Anybody remember the 2003 movie The Core? The government has to build a special machine to drill down to the earth’s core in order to fix a “military industrial complex/science experiment” gone awry.
Now it seems Obama administration science advisors are suggesting that we “geoengineer” the planet in order to reduce global warming. Sound cool? Wait [...]

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