Hanukkah menorah in Tel Aviv breaks world record for largest menorah built of Legos (Thanks to John Lobert and Asher Scheiner) And happy Hanukkah to everyone, regardless of how you spell it.
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Imagine that if you chose no physical object could affect you. Bullets don’t work, fists don’t work, no one can grab you or put you in handcuffs, and that’s true of everyone.
The second was:
What if you didn’t need to eat or drink and you cold and heat didn’t bother you or harm you and you didn’t get sick? You might still want shelter or a home or objects like books or computers, and objects like cosmetics would exist, but not medicine. But you would need nothing.
I didn’t write very much about these because I wanted people to think it thru on their own first. If you haven’t done so, please spend some time thinking about it now before you proceed.
After a two year process, the NUJ Executive have finally rejected the renewal of my NUJ membership based on social media posts I allegedly made which they refuse to show me and of content and subject of which I genuinely have not a clue. But apparently these social media posts make me not a fit […]
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Brian Latham reports on why human rights violations in Rwanda mean the Government's deportation plans put vulnerable people at risk
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: Many-Sorted Logic by María Manzano and Víctor Aranda. Revised: Quantifiers and Quantification by Gabriel Uzquiano. Plato’s Shorter Ethical Works by Paul Woodruff. Intuitionistic Logic by Joan Moschovakis. Paul Ricoeur by David Pellauer and Bernard Dauenhauer. Fatalism by Hugh Rice. Robert Boyle by J. J. MacIntosh and Peter Anstey. Brentano’s Theory of Judgement by Johannes L. Brandl and Mark Textor. IEP ∅ NDPR Averroes on Intellect: From Aristotelian Origins to Aquinas’ Critique by Stephen R. Ogden is reviewed by Kendall A. Fisher. The Art of Abduction by Igor Douven is reviewed by Stephen Biggs. God, Knowledge, and the Good by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is reviewed by Derek Christian Haderlie. 1000-Word Philosophy ∅ Project Vox ∅ Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya is reviewed by Jonathan Derbyshire at the Financial Times. Compiled by Michael Glawson BONUS: Work
The COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions, and distinct economic conditions bring challenges to economies worldwide. These key themes provided a backdrop for the fifth bi-annual Global Research Forum on International Macroeconomics and Finance, organized by the European Central Bank (ECB), the Federal Reserve Board, and Federal Reserve Bank of New York in New York in November. The papers and discussions framed important issues related to the global economy and financial markets, and explored the implications of policies that central banks and other official sector bodies take to address geopolitical developments and conditions affecting growth, inflation, and financial stability. A distinguished panel of experts shared diverse perspectives on the drivers of and prospects for inflation from a global perspective. In this post, we discuss highlights of the conference. The event page includes links to videos for each session.
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Fundamentalist Christians with links to religious right actors in the US are seeking to prevent change on LGBTIQ+ rights in the Baptist Church, Sian Norris reports
Automated text analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book shows that the report contains useful information for understanding labor market and inflation trends.
Ieva Sakalauskaite and Qun Harris Following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–08, some regulators introduced rules on bankers’ bonuses with an aim to mitigate incentives to take excessive risks, and in turn promote financial stability. In a recent paper we use detailed data on remuneration of staff in six large UK banks to look at … Continue reading How does remuneration regulation affect bankers’ pay?
Emma DeSouza reports on the implications for remain-voting Northern Ireland and the Union of Ireland's positive relationship with the EU, amid ongoing complications over the Protocol
Before Bank Underground takes a festive break, it’s time for the Annual Bank Underground Christmas Quiz. Test yourself against our 10 festively themed questions on economics, finance and all things central banking…
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar consider what the progressive Left can do to counter dangerous hard-right thinking on the great social issues of our era
The head of cybercrime prevention in France tweeted yesterday that any attempt by Elon Musk to prevent linking to sites or comments which do not break the law is in fact, the assertion of editorial control. Musk seems to be preventing links partly to anyone he personally has a problem with, but in particular to... Read more
After returning from playing at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague we wanted to do a livestream performance of our set from the show.
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“I saw the images at AAMI Park and immediately thought about how African immigrants are wreaking havoc in the outer suburbs of Melbourne"
The average annual wage growth in enterprise agreements not only remains well below inflation, it shows little sigh of increasing.
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I finished Melvin Sheldrake’s “Entangled Life” today. The book covers how fungus interact with humans and the rest of life. It’s a great read; each chapter discusses different aspects of fungus. The writing is personal, multi-faceted, kind and curious. One chapter is about lichens, the complex symbiotic forms of algae and fungus that adapt so … Continue reading Entangled Life