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TUTORING maths to high-school students has provided retired maths head teacher, Drew Bogema, with a way to raise funds for a range of charities that are close to his heart. Raising some $13,000 during 2021 and 2022 from after-school-hours maths tutoring, through the students’ fees, Drew donates 100 percent of the payments to a pool...

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The bizarre Ukrainian claim that Russia is seeking negotiations and even offering up a DMZ provides a window into the state of disarray.

  Oh no! …. “Inflation!”…. Fed better go up the 0.5% now!

Egg prices rise more than 64% in some stateshttps://t.co/natM1HoTr7

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) January 12, 2023

THE heart of Coffs’ community swelled to support the 2022 Community Christmas Luncheon held on December 25, and hosted for the second year running by Doris and David Rake. Donations, volunteers and a who’s who of local connections delivered a wonderful, warm and welcoming festive get-together with lunch, entertainment and gifts, all for free, for...

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AUNTY Yvette Pacey, Chair of the Garlambirla Guuyu-Girrwaa (Coffs Harbour Aboriginal Elders group), provided Minister for Regional Transport and Roads the Hon Sam Farraway with an accompanied walk around the Mackays Road (Grandpa’s Scrub) site on Monday 9 January. Minister Farraway was in Coffs Harbour to announce amendments to three interchanges on the Coffs Bypass...

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“EXTREMELY disappointing.” That is the response from Dave Wood, Advocates for Grandpa’s Scrub spokesperson, to an official statement from Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) noting its reasons for not taking necessary steps to avoid and protect a 0.5 ha remnant of original Lowland Rainforest between Shephards Lane and Gatelys Road, known by some as...

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How profit, entertainment and belief intertwined to perpetuate a fantastical hoax from 1835 about bat-people on the Moon

- by Aeon Video

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Substack, the online publishing platform, appears to be increasing in popularity among philosophers as a place to blog and share ideas via newsletter. Yet it can be difficult to find philosophers’ Substacks if you’re not already aware of them, or if they are not especially popular. So I thought it would be useful to create a space to list them. To keep things manageable, let’s limit this post to Substacks by philosophy professors or those with at least some graduate training in philosophy. Here’s a list of Substacks by philosophers I’m aware of: Hinternet by Justin E. H. Smith Mostly Aesthetics by Brad Skow The Philosophical Economist by Erik Angner Good Thoughts by Richard Y. Chappell It’s Her Factory by Robin James Fake Noûs by Michael Huemer Under the Net by Kieran Setiya Infinitely More by Joel David Hamkins Running Ideas by Nicholas Delon Philosophy for the People by Ben Burgis Uncommon Wisdom by Jimmy Alfonso Licon The Splintered Mind by Eric Schwitzgebel Please share others in the comments. Thanks! P.S. Substack is where the service New Work in Philosophy is published.

Will a new generation of women on the podium perpetuate the tyrannical charisma of their male predecessors or overturn it?

- by Xenia Hanusiak

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Self-styled anti-sex-trafficking groups, who are actually opposed to sex work, are imposing their extreme religious views on all Americans

Professor River Song gets caught in the emotional complexities of one family’s legacy in a brand-new full-cast audio box set, ‘Friend of the Family‘, released today from Big Finish Productions. River Song (Alex Kingston) travels between eras – ranging from 1936 to 2014 – while trapped in a house full of mysteries and heartbreak in […]

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The one-year Treasury rate and the five-year, five-year forward rate on Treasuries told different stories in 2022, depending on whether one looked at nominal rates or real rates.

Philosopher Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona State University) and psychologist Norbert Schwarz (University of Southern California) have won a $3.4 million grant for their project, “Humility in Inquiry”. “The project focuses on humility in inquiry—the practices and processes that encourage humble, open-minded thinking,” says Professor Ballantyne. “The project’s aim is to support intensive collaborations between philosophers and scientists, and ultimately to establish a new paradigm of interdisciplinary research.” The grant supporting the research was awarded by the John Templeton Foundation. Professors Ballantyne and Schwarz will in turn be distributing subawards totaling $1.3 million. These will support research by multidisciplinary teams with members drawn from philosophy, psychological science, and related fields to address one or more of the themes of “Applying Epistemic Ideals, Science and Organizations, and Mindsets and Metacognitive Perspectives”.

A wealth of new detail about the Twitter-government partnership.

Woodburning stoves are a beguiling but disastrous mistake. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2022 It’s shame that has stopped me writing about it before. The shame of failing to think for myself and see the bigger picture, which is more or less my job description. Instead, I followed the crowd. In […]

Kristina Bluwstein, Sudipto Karmakar and David Aikman Introduction Inflation reached almost 9% in July 2022, its highest reading since the early 1990s. A large proportion of the working age population will never have experienced such price increases, or the prospect of higher interest rates to bring inflation back under control. In recent years, many commentators … Continue reading What does the rise in the inflation mean for financial stability? →

Sian Norris reports as Kigali declares it will not welcome refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, undermining claims it is a safe country to deport migrant people

On 27 September 2022, Open Rights Group (ORG) held a roundtable with civil society – from women’s rights advocacy groups to organisations representing over-surveilled communities – to discuss some of the most concerning aspects of the Online Safety Bill, currently at the report stage in the House of Commons. Two particular issues were raised during the […]

The Hardy Boys are public domain now! And there's nothing they can do about it.

Disney goes back to the office.

This is the clear result of the enormous increase in property prices – driven largely by the banks’ desire for profit. A mortgage that was limited to about three times annual income in the 1990s is now frequently and remarkably seven times annual income. No wonder one in forty mortgagees are in arrears – a... Read more

The 40-year-old is yet to broach the awkward accusation.