A very confronting short film about internet privacy

Are you worried about privacy on Facebook? Just watch this short film (less than three minutes), and be awed… or shocked. (Thanks to Tom Uytterhoeven for pointing me to this film and to the (Dutch) blog which features the film: http://xyofeinstein.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/en-nog-een-veel-beter-mediawijsheidsfilmpje-wat-weet-deze-gedachtelezer-over-jou/.)

Jerry Coyne and his empty vase

On his personal blog, evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne has given his opinion of Thomas Nagel’s review of Plantinga’s book. To those familiar with Coyne’s rantings about everything religious, it will come as no surprise that Coyne has no respect for Nagel’s appeal to Plantinga’s position. However, if you read Nagel’s review and Coyne’s review of Nagel’s review, I hope you will notice that Coyne shows himself in his review to be no philosopher.

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Thomas Nagel on Plantinga’s book in New York Review of Books

Just a note to point visitors of my website to a wonderful review of the distinguished philosopher Thomas Nagel of Alvin Plantinga’s latest book Where the Conflict Really Lies in the New York Review of Books. It’s a review with a very interesting twist…

(Thanks to John Teske for sharing the link via IRASnet!)

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Marcelo Gleiser on the immortality that the WWW brings

Today Marcelo Gleiser has a wonderful blog entry on 13.7 Cosmos and Culture. I just loved the ending – I’m not going to spoil the fun here, just read it for yourself before you continue reading the next lines! I loved it simply because it made me think: the Internet is so much about shallow … Lees verder

Is Richard Dawkins (still) a “real” scientist?

Is Richard Dawkins a scientist? According to Edward O. Wilson, in a recent interview with The Guardian, Dawkins is not a scientist. Wilson claims: “Would you like to talk about Dawkins?” he continues – and when I [i.e. the author of the article, Susanna Rustin] say yes, he laughs. “I hesitate to do this because … Lees verder