Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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War with China
Holy fuck. I genuinely had no idea that US nuclear missiles had increased in accuracy by such a degree in the last 15 years. Assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame Keir Lieber and Daryl Press who was a consultant on military analysis projects for the U.S. Department of Defense for…
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Murdoch on declining readership
Hehe. … I would have thought that, although the decline in readership … will probably go on… WSJ: They’re all going to MySpace. Mr. Murdoch: I wish they were. They’re all going to Facebook at the moment.
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Atlantis launch aftermath
Awesome.
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Religion and secularism
Ross Douthat, writing in this month’s Atlantic, argues that the US is becoming increasingly secular, while Europe – thanks to Islam – may be turning back to its religious roots. Douthat makes an interesting case for the secularisation of the US: A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 20 percent of 18-to-25-year-olds reported no…
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iPhone ads
The blogosphere has been all over the new ads for the iPhone. I like the slickness of the interface, here is the latest one showing off browsing abilities in Safari.
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New MacBook Pros
They’re out. Now where’s my credit card… Apparently the new LED screen on the 15′ constitutes power savings of 50-60 minutes of battery life. Cool.
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Housing in Ireland
What stage are we at? Fear? Good post from HousingPanic [via arandomwalk].
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Essay writing
I guess these ads will shortly be a thing of the past?
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Google railways
Google are pretty confident about the Government rebuilding the railway from Cork to Youghal. Despite the track from Glounthane to Youghal having been idle for 30 years, the map says there definitely is a track there… though we wait for it to become operational again. Maybe Google are psychic? I like their confidence anyway. By…
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Twenty's competitor
Rabodirect have fixed the spelling mistakes I pointed out some weeks ago. They have a placed a sticker over the old writing, though you can just make out the writing underneath. Old spelling: New spelling: And my post was definitely picked up by Rabo staff, several referrals for ‘Rabodirect spelling’ turned up from Rabobank domains.…
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