Philosophy
Gustav
It doesn't look good and maybe this time paying attention to the [short] past will avoid disastrous large concentrations of the displaced, save lives, and allow individuals to retain their pets.Honorarium to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927...Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie "When The Levee Breaks"
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Baby Talk And Baseball
Kerry asks, "Why do many of us speak to our pets in baby talk or in a voice different from our normal one?" My conjecture is that because we think of our pets as our children. Now, it is actually a good thing to talk to newborn babies in our high pitched...
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Jane Mcgonigal - Gaming Can Save The World
If this entry doesn't save the world, it could at least save a whole bunch of relationships in peril... If you think your good-for-nothing boyfriend is a waste of living matter simply because he devotes so much of his time to playing video games --instead...
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Carl Gustav Hempel...logical Positivism/logical Empiricism
Carl Gustav Hempel January 8th 1905 to November 9th 1997 Not exactly a household name and a movement, logical positivism/logical empiricist, that has fallen out of favor much like many others. German-born U.S. philosopher who was one of the leaders of...
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Cosmosphere...kansas Cosmological & Space Center
Apollo 13 Capsule Photo by Daniel Bayer If you are planning a vacation this year or are traveling through the state of Kansas, you might wish to visit the Kansas Cosmological & Space Center or Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. Kansas Cosmosphere...
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"collecting Things" Poll
Do you collect things such as rocks, minerals, fossils or books or stamps or cat whiskers? Yes...2 No...2 I think there must be a human gene that compels some of us to collect something and this gene tends to disintegrate as one gets older. In youth...
Philosophy