Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Karlin returns
Karlin returns with a post from Cannes no less, she is down sunning herself and enjoying some new Dell wizadry. Maybe she will bump into Charlie Haughey who enjoys the Cote d’Azur this time of year. Glad to see her wireless connection will be back working again soon too.
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Why not bring China into the cosmic club?
Michael Benson asks the question, and it is a fair enough one. Though my libertarian friends might prefer to see Richard Branson do it all first with Virgin. Two things, I love this quote from the Branson article: Andrew Nahum, the senior curator of aeronautics at the Science Museum and visiting professor in vehicle design…
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UK study assigns Leaving Cert high A-level ratings
Whenever I have had interviews for jobs in the UK, the question has always arisen: What is the Leaving Certificate? To which the reply is: Well, it’s kind of like A-Levels, but not quite, its kind of…umm…emm. Now finally I have the answer, its two-thirds of an A-Level. According to a study done by Oxford…
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How Come
Marshall Mathers and his D12 crew will certainly amaze you with their new video to the D12 World song How Come.
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Lyrical Judge Praises Eminem in Lyrics Fight
Comparing Eminem to Benny Goodman, Elvis Presley and Paul Simon, a federal judge ruled yesterday that the company that publishes a leading hip-hop magazine was in contempt of court for failing to comply with orders in a copyright battle with the rapper.
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July 10th?
Provisional date for Dublin Blog get-together…Saturday July 10th. If this date is not good for people please comment or email. Comment here too.
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The D12 members speak out about each other
People usually focus a lot of attention on the comments that the media have to offer about groups like D12.
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The limits of being Irish
The Guardian, with its editiorial take on the Irish Citizenship referendum. I, for one, intend to vote no.
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Oil is running out…
Yet more fuel into this fire that has been on slowburn on this blog over the last few weeks. George Monbiot, yes I know some of you hate him, with his views on the likely scenarios that may meet us once the oil runs out. I think Frank will enjoy this…and he also mentions issues…
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Royston Brady and Today FM
Dick wonders if Matt Cooper has been playing the chicken song on the Last Word. Indeed he has, every week, more or less, for the last number of weeks. The latest time I believe the chicken noises lasted a good 30 seconds. Which is a long time to listen to it on live radio… Matt…
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