Hi all, I’m proud to announce that the book I co-authored with Toby Green of King’s College London — The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left — is finally out! Here’s the description: During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that “following the science” with …
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Climate campaigners are taking to ‘adbusting’ to get their message across and target oil and gas funders, Josiah Mortimer reports
Following the easing of Covid-19 polices in China, which was quickly followed by a spike in cases, several countries — including the US, Japan, Italy, Spain, France and, most recently, the UK — have reacted by reintroducing restrictions for passengers from China, requiring them to show a negative PCR or antigen test before boarding. The …
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Excuse me, car salesman? I have an insecurity about my body that I hope to solve by purchasing a flashy vehicle. I know I should love and accept myself the way I am, and I honestly do try to embrace body positivity. In my heart, I know that it’s what’s on the inside of a person that counts. But unfortunately for me, what’s on the inside is a super huge vagina.
That’s why I’ve come to this car dealership to purchase a vehicle so sleek, so compact, and so ridiculously out of my price range that people will look at me and say, “Damn, with a flashy car like that, I bet her cooter is as tight as Scrooge McDuck.”
I’m tired of driving around in my current car, a 1992 Ford Tempo that screams, “Her slot is looser than the ones at Circus Circus.”
I need a car that makes people assume my inside corset is cinched up like the waist of the main character in a Jane Austen novel.
I know, some people claim that size doesn’t matter. They say it’s not the size of the boat, but the motion in the ocean. Unfortunately for me, I’m not the boat in that metaphor.
It’s Monday night, and in typical Monday fashion, there is nothing exciting to do. I check my wallet: my driver’s license is expired, so bars are out of the question, bus pass, my dental insurance card—I suppose a teeth whitening wouldn’t be the worst use of my time.
Then I see my Kroger card. I have a normal-sized one for my wallet and a miniature version that hangs off my keychain because I’m that serious about the great discounts it offers on exciting products like generic-brand pasta (cut with sawdust!), generic-brand coffee pods (now with half the coffee grounds!), and any products that the location is eager to get rid of (still food!). Tonight’s club is Kroger, no cover fee required.
There’s a display by the entrance: baskets stuffed with limited-edition packages of a new product by the think tank at General Mills: Spicy CinnaFUEGO Toast Crunch. They’re on sale for Kroger cardholders: three dollars are marked off of their five-dollar price tag. I would be an idiot to pass up such an amazing deal.
Sian Norris reports on the response to the brutal killing of the young LGBTQ+ activist and what it tells us about homophobia around the world
Penny Pepper pens an open letter to her Conservative MP, explaining why the NHS crisis is personal and political for those 'living in the real world'
David TC Davies refused to be interviewed by a journalist who'd dug into allegations of climate change denialism and his equal rights stance
THE Coffs Coast, named in November 2022 as having one of the world’s Top 100 Green Destination stories, is in the running for the tourist organisation’s People’s Choice Award in the Culture and Tradition category. Voting is open now and ends on January 24 at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time. Advertise with News of The...
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Maybe they are just going to use their capital to accept the Fed’s 5% subsidies and lay everyone else off?
Banks are telling you to buy stocks, saying the bottom is in & cancelling their recession calls for Europe.
— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) January 11, 2023
Meanwhile, all of them are closing investments, departments & laying off staff.
Seems unusual, no? 🤔 https://t.co/99AUWXOkMP
Dimon now hoping for 6%:
PLEASED, impassioned and perhaps most of all proud of the Coffs Harbour community’s willingness to give in support of others, Doris (Cowan) and David Wake who organised the Community Christmas Luncheon are saying a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who made it all happen. Numerous people across Coffs Harbour donated food, money, their time,...
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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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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.
- by Xenia Hanusiak
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”.