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Darwin and morality
'Darwin's system should be viewed as morally liberating, not cosmically depressing. The answers to moral questions cannot be found in nature's factuality in any case, so why not take the "cold bath" of recognizing nature as nonmoral, and not constructed to match our hopes? After all, life existed on earth for 3.5 billion years before we arrived; ( Read more... ) -
www.givingwhatwecan.org
"When I was on a scholarship earning £14,000 per year," says Ord, "I looked at data on the World Income Distribution List and found I was in the richest 5% of the world's population. And if I were to give 10% of that, I'd still be in the richest 5%."
www.givingwhatwecan.org
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The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working
;The denial industry, which has no interest in establishing the truth about global warming, insists that these emails, which concern three or four scientists and just one or two lines of evidence, destroy the entire canon of climate science ( Read more... ) -
the cashless man
'I'm not for a moment suggesting we should all go money-less tomorrow. It's about transition. All I am trying to say is that I believe money is like oil: if we are going to use it, let's at least use it to build sustainable infrastructure for the future, and not meaningless tat. And I just wanted to show that you can live a really happy, healthy ( Read more... ) -
caring and sharing
Yesterday: A couple in matching newbie T-shirts, both armed to the teeth with DSLRs, who spent at least half an hour taking about 9809892374 gigabytes' worth of multiple shots each, probably having multiple joygasms too, less than a metre away from the mothers with new babies. Using flash. The behaviour of some people is just incomprehensible ( Read more... ) -
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'No nation - even if it is our bitterest enemy - is incomprehensible. Anthropology shows that people who seem very different from us behave according to systems of logic, and that these systems can be grasped if we approach them with the sort of patience and respect that Dr. Soetoro practiced in her work.
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Internships
'The rise of unpaid internships gets the blast it deserves. It's free labour slavery for the young who can afford to do it and yet denies access to all without parents to support them. All kinds of professions gladly take in bright graduates for free, so their CVs shine with experience their less fortunate contemporaries lack. It should be banned ( Read more... )