by Carl Howard | Aug 17, 2015 | Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
It’s Sydney Science Festival this week so I’m going to 4 talks and liveblogging them. Tonight’s talk by Geraint F Lewis is Einstein’s Wonderful Idea: A Century of Space-Time, Black Holes and Expanding Universes, celebrating the 100th anniversary of General Relativity....
by Carl Howard | Jul 28, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, History
[CN: War, starvation, genocide] The legacy of WWII is a much bigger deal in the former Soviet Union than can be imagined in many other countries. The Victory Day celebrations of May 9th are a major international event in Moscow (although this year’s 70th anniversary...
by Carl Howard | Jul 21, 2015 | Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: sexual assault talk, more graphic than previous posts] Last week, I looked at the specific wording of a law that talks about the application of affirmative consent in Californian colleges. One part of the law deserved a post of its own: Affirmative consent must...
by Carl Howard | Jul 14, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last week I posted about what a paradigm of affirmative consent would look like. A lot of the post was general, not talking about specific legislation. And yet, the whole media frenzy was around some of the new affirmative consent laws in...
by Carl Howard | Jul 7, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last year, the idea of affirmative consent was first put into place by some US college campuses. This sparked a lot of discussion, some good and some, ahem, “sub-optimal”. Maybe we’ll remember 2014 as the year of the rape singularity that...
by Carl Howard | Jun 23, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Interesting Stuff, Race
Futility Closet is a podcast where the hosts explore historical oddities, trivia and strange tales. I like it a lot, but they have a fairly specific tone, I guess to increase its mass appeal. It’s apolitical, avoids [IMO] controversial topics and since it’s about...
