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Announcing the 60 Second Story Competition: We need more stories in our lives, yet we don’t have much time for them. Most digital cameras and webcams allow you to take one minute of video and audio at resolutions suitable for the web. The solution: 60 second stories, of course. We are pleased to announce the […]

More on the PhilSci OA repository: James Lennox is retiring as director of the University of Pittsburth’s Center for Philosophy of Science (CPS). For the OA connection, think about this paragraph from a news story on Lennox and CPS: ‘The center’s world-class reputation is enhanced by the Archives for Scientific Philosophy in the Hillman Library, […]

NBC5.com – Education – District Apologizes To Student Identified As ‘Black Girl’ In Yearbook: A North Texas school district has apologized to a student identified only as “Black Girl” in a high school yearbook photo of the school’s National Honor Society. —– it never ends…

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BBC NEWS | Europe | French thinker Paul Ricoeur dies: French philosopher and teacher Paul Ricoeur, whose interests ranged from phenomenology to biblical exegesis, has died, aged 92.As well as teaching at the Sorbonne in Paris, he spent 15 years at the University of Chicago.

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com: “I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us,” said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house. —- from phantomcity

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i’m in Torino, Italy today, and I’ve been sitting in the lobby wasting some time as i get ready to head to the triple helix conference. And i noted that the way we structure the light in a room affects us significantly. it realigns spaces and defines relationships. What keyed me on this is the […]

riding a bike at light speed: