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Where is God when children are starving? @theneweuropean.bsky.social app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/135903...

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This is how the confirmed release schedule for this year and next year currently stands. ALL these books are available for order / preorder now. See my website for details and purchase links. www.garethlpowell.com/books-2

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Tech billionaires & future-focused thinkers have grand plans involving AGI, colonizing Mars, eradicating aging and death and uploading our minds into computers. Well, not so fast, says @adambecker.bsky.social. I review his new book, More Everything Forever, in @undark.org: undark.org/2025/05/16/b...

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Nicolaus Copernicus died #OTD in 1543 -- and if you're looking for something to do on a lazy Saturday afternoon, please enjoy my little video about Copernicus from a few years ago, in which I follow in his footsteps in Warsaw, Torun, Krakow, and Frombork: #science #history youtu.be/wqRj0HgIaiE?...

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100 years ago this summer, the small town of Dayton TN was thrust into the spotlight as one of the most famous legal battles of the 20th century, seemingly putting #Darwin & #evolution on trial, got underway. My latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: #science www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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so let's cut the Weather Service and FEMA and air traffic control....and science research. 🧪 theconversation.com/in-2025-torn...

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🍃 🦷 Fluoride protects against tooth decay 🧪 Adding safe amounts of fluoride to water is "one of the most successful public health interventions of the 20th century"

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As I noted in ONE NATION UNDER GOD, a lot of the 1950s-era campaigns to post the TC on school walls fell apart when they moved from theory to practice and had to pick a specific text. Proponents were often stunned to learn that Protestants, Catholics and Jews had different versions.

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The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are. Source: The Washington Post search.app/6yHzA Shared via the Google App

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Great to hear @pagankennedy.bsky.social on CBC Radio's Sunday Magazine today -- glad her book is getting a lot of buzz!

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'The great globe itself' - The Tempest (IV, 1) The Cosmati Pavement, in front of the Abbey's High Altar, was made by Italian craftsmen in 1268. The central stone represents the world and includes the colours representing fire, air, water and earth. #ShakespeareSunday

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This from the man who said “the professors are the enemy”. Make no mistake, the #Trump regime is declaring war on science and knowledge. #Trumpland #USFascism

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@gretchentg.bsky.social 's thread is good. Here're some comments from the POV of philosophy of science #philsci

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Over the next week we'll be attending two philosophy of physics conferences @rotmanphilosophy.bsky.social: Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics The Logic, Mathematics &Physics Graduate Conference. #philsky #philphysics To register/attend remotely: www.rotman.uwo.ca/event/2025-a...

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There is a new Executive Order that is closely related to many of the topics promoted in the science reform movement. It deserves a close read as it will surely have implications for how some promoted reforms are implemented in policy and practice. My hot take 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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"Is there a reason to care more about violating someone’s moral convictions than his or her personal preferences (or vice versa)?" #philsky cathoderayzone.com/acropolis/so...

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You are invited! Come learn about how #philosophy can help defend #democracy. www.thedisunion.com/blog/public-... #freedomofreligion #separationofchurchandstate #toleration #politics

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Elon Musk called empathy a “weakness” of Western civilization. But philosophers argue the opposite: empathy is a hard-won form of knowledge — and essential for understanding others and making informed decisions buff.ly/WTS28lC #PhilSky

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🧪 We need more of us to rise up to defend NSF.

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You are invited! Come learn about how #philosophy can help defend #democracy. www.thedisunion.com/blog/public-... #freedomofreligion #separationofchurchandstate #toleration #politics

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Without philosophical thought, Einstein claimed he “would have contributed nothing to science.” | iai.tv/articles/wit... Philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci sides with Einstein and argues for the importance of philosophy in making true scientific progress. #philsky #philsci 🧪 ⚛️

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Extraterrestrial tongues Imagining how aliens might communicate prepares us for first contact and illuminates the nature of our own languages | by Nikhil Mahant aeon.co/essays/why-a... #language #alien #philosophy #philsky

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It's been 10 years since @profsamperry.bsky.social and I published our first three papers on Christian nationalism. We found CN negatively associated w/ support for: 1) Trans-racial adoption 2) Interracial marriage 3) Same-sex marriage We quickly sensed there was more going on here...

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I agree: It is a very strange thing that scientists continue to invoke Popper and Kuhn, whose work is getting very old. The field of philosophy of science has moved on since then! #philosophy #philsci #hst #hps

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I’ve been a fan of Moore since Lamb. I’m really looking forward to diving into this as soon as I finish grading for the semester. And surely the cover alone will win awards: gorgeous! #booksky #comedy #books

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"To come up with a good AI policy...one first has to have an idea of which skills & formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, & which ones they will fight to retain." An excellent piece on AI in ed by philosopher @freganmitts.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

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