Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Georgia starts S Ossetia pullout
Georgia has begun withdrawing troops from the conflict zone in South Ossetia a day after it claimed to have captured key strategic positions in the area. It is handing over control to a joint peacekeeping force composed of Russian, Ossetian and Georgian soldiers. Events move fast.
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Post September 11th 2001 Journalism
An Oasis points to an interesting piece of media analysis. I also came across this good media weblog today.
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How good are Ireland's schools?
Dick O’Brien and William Sjostrom have been duking it out on the free vs fee debate in regard to Ireland’s schools. Is William not relying on an entirely anecdotal example? I am not sure that one story such as that would put me off public schools, well in fact it wouldn’t. I went through the…
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Global warming to devastate Europe first
According to a new study: European winters will disappear by 2080 and extreme weather will become more common unless global warming across the continent is slowed, warns a major new report. Europe is warming more quickly than the rest of the world with potentially devastating consequences, including more frequent heatwaves, flooding, rising sea levels and…
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How 'bout some editing?
Over at Irish Eagle some bad fact checking is reported, in the Independent no less. Conor Cruise O’Brien noted: The present Governor of California George Kazantsakis, was elected in 2002 with the active support of President Bush, who campaigned for him in the State, and toured the State with the new Governor immediately after his…
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Grokster Wins in Appeals Court
An important decision has been reached. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Grokster (along with other vendors of decentralized P2P systems) is not liable for the copyright infringement of its users. Today’s decision upholds a lower court decision, which had been appealed by a group of music and movie companies. The Court…
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Language may shape human thought
New Scientist reporting a curious study: Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study. Experts agree that the startling result provides the strongest support…
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Yahoo have a blog
I’m impressed. Jeff Weiner, Senior Vice President, Search and Marketplace for Yahoo now has a blog. And it’s no ordinary PR blog either. In fact its quite good. Yahoo’s blog is called http://www.ysearchblog.com/. This follows Google, www.google.com/googleblog
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Spirit Hints at Past Water, Opportunity Hits Rock Bottom
Those two Rovers are at it again. No, not that. They are finding more and more evident of a history of liquid water on Mars. Fascinating stuff. “I would say that this is the most powerful evidence [of water] in the rocks at Gusev Crater,” said Steven Squyres, the rovers’ principal investigator from Cornell University.…
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Ireland raises growth forecasts
Good news for the Irish economy. How does it happen that it’s good PR to tell a country’s citizens that the government has succeeded in taking more money off them than it expected, and that the citizens think thats a good thing? Surely we should be up in arms that the government is getting all…
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