New York Times — Washington Post
The possibility that Europe will become a museum or a cultural amusement park for the nouveau riche of globalization is not completely out of the question.
Walker Percy’s Intersubjectivity: An Existential Semiotic or 3 + 3 = 4
Bertrand Russell: Science and philosophy
My chum and Russell scholar par excellence has this piece in the TLS.
As Wittgenstein sums up Russell’s insight, “Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity”. Something similar might be said of science as well.
Design and simulation of the emergent behavior of small drones swarming for distributed target localization
Just published in the Journal of Computational Science.
Marty Balin
Marty and especially Grace Slick at their best. Joe Viglione understands. My chum Carmella Scaggs had much to say about Jefferson Airplane/Starship (maybe for some other time).
It’s probably the only time Slick and Balin ever made love, their voices pure sex together inside this tune about the potential of that once-in-a-lifetime friendship.
Friedrich Hayek and the Pleasures of Liberal Thought in the ‘Great Book’ of Modern Japan
Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence
The Theory of Moral Sentiments — online
Smith’s TMS has been made available online.
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