I’ve taken up an old hobby again: rambling about moral philosophy. Science writer John Bohannon (creator of the “Dance Your PhD” competition) started a blog about bioethics, and I’ll be contributing posts and comments there. The blog, called “The Electric Monk,” is a collaboration between bloggers from around the country who are interested in the (More…)
Alright fine, I got the idea from somewhere else.
[XuHui by Montrasio International (Flickr)] I don’t know why it took so long for me to get hooked, but it’s official: the Gothamist has sunk its claws into me. Or actually, Shanghaiist and Bostonist are the blogs that have made it onto my Google Reader, the first for its thorough (if at first a bit (More…)
I like all things pithy and beautiful. No, I’m not talking about a nice olive, though I like those too. I mean pithy as in having brevity, that proverbial soul of wit, and beauty as Plato meant it — almost. His preferred beauty was probably singular, transcendent. I’ll settle for abstract, but not entirely rational. (More…)
The great thing about taking too many classes with problem sets is that one can still find room to procrastinate wildly between nights of not getting enough sleep. My reward for being behind in lecture? Migrating this blog from wordpress.com to my own host, and using the open source version of wordpress to hack up (More…)