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Thu, 08/12/2022 - 01:46
Prospective philosophy graduate students are currently checking out information at department pages, discussion forums, and sites that collect data and opinions, deciding where to apply or what to think of the places to which they’ve already applied. Yet is that online information up to date? For various reasons, there can be a significant lag between changes to departments and the online availability of information about such changes, and sometimes, those changes might be relevant to someone’s decision about where to apply. So I thought I’d open up a space for people to share news of such changes, be they good or bad or unclear. What kind of changes?
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Wed, 07/12/2022 - 22:48
Welcome to my Wednesday Blog. Two huge things are happening at once, and they’re happening during a social media meltdown! The Complete Saucer Country Crowdfunder Ends 8am Friday UK Time! At Midnight Pacific/8am GMT on Friday 9th December, the Zoop crowdfunder for The Complete Saucer Country will come to an end. We’re fully funded, thank ... Read More
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Wed, 07/12/2022 - 22:01

Doctor Who Magazine Issue 585 DALEKS’ INVASION EARTH 1966 A.D.! The adventures of the Fourteenth Doctor, as played by David Tennant on TV, continue in Doctor Who Magazine issue 585. Part Two of the epic new comic-strip adventure Liberation of the Daleks, written by Alan Barnes and illustrated by Lee Sullivan, sees the Doctor’s greatest […]

The post DWM: Doctor Who Magazine Issue 585 available tomorrow appeared first on Blogtor Who.

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Wed, 07/12/2022 - 18:17
The Washington Post has a long piece about a Virginia family whose current (substantial but not huge) wealth derives from their slaveholding forebears and who may now be greatly enriched by the discovery of uranium under their land. There’s an interesting discussion of the arguments for and against reparations Buried in the middle of the […]
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Wed, 07/12/2022 - 11:27

This presentation to the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network’s European Leadership Network explores Australian perceptions of strategic risk, the country’s heightened sense of threat and the differences between the two. In short, threats come and go, while risk is a constant in a world that is inherently chaotic. Long-term strategic policy needs to be based on analysis of risk and its mitigation, not on perceived threats.

The post Australia’s perceptions of strategic risks and policy responses appeared first on The Australia Institute.