Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Perils of Primacy
Benjamin Shwarz has a thoughtful piece on how America must deal with it’s primacy. He argues that since the end of the Cold War, the United States has not fully dealt with its new position, and must seriously consider it’s position, and soon. He notes: Defense analysts have grown increasingly nervous about the convergence of…
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Peace spreads?
Following on from my post last month about the apparent spread of peace, the Atlantic have a helpful graph that summarises the Human Security Report. The number of ongoing armed conflicts is 40 percent lower now than in 1992, and the number of deadly conflicts—defined as wars leading to 1,000 or more combat deaths—is 80…
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Blog-aholics
Here is an interesting statistic according to a recent study, 25% of US workers read blogs. This contributes to a loss of 9% of the working week. In other words U.S. workers in 2005 wasted the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs. Here’s the money quote: According to a survey (sub.) by the magazine Advertising…
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Brain drain in Ireland
The latest issue of the the Atlantic has an interesting set of statistics concerning the percentage of physicians that leave their own country to practice elsewhere. According to a study by the New England Journal of Medicine Ireland loses 41.2% of its graduates to the four countries of US, UK, Australia or Canada. The actual…
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Danish Mohammed cartoons
This really has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Michelle Malkin has, perhaps rightly, been going to town on it. Last night RTE’s Prime Time decided not to show any of the cartoons. I have decided to link to the cartoons, I actually think they are not that good, and to be honest I can’t see…
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Adam Boulton blogs
A reader has pointed me to the new blog of Sky News’ Adam Boulton. I hope Adam enjoys the blogosphere.
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Oprah as journalist
The Daily Show do a great piece on how the journalists of America could learn something from Oprah’s grilling of James Frey. Watch the video here. I find the Random House blurb by Coates Bateman quite funny: What’s interesting is that the most affecting scenes (for me at least) are not gratuitously violent. They’re not…
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Andrew Sullivan moved
I really do like the new look of Andrew Sullivan’s blog, since his move to Time.com. You can catch him here from now on.
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Cork bloggers
Donal has a post about who exactly lives in Cork, and blogs from there. He mentions that a few of us have been left out of the new site, CorkBlogs.com. Could fellow Corkonian bloggers make themselves known!
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Old blogger returns
Tom Cosgrave has returned. Three cheers!
Got any book recommendations?