What was the history between Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin? What did they agree on? What did they disagree on? What is historiography? What enlightened thought caused the Haitian Revolution? What were people
We of course invited OpenPhil to send a representative to record their own episode, but they declined (they did send a written response to this episode, which is linked below and read at end of the episode). If anyone out there wants to asynchronously argue with Habryka on a separate epi...
"I'm somebody that wants to help other countries of the world, but I also have to take care — we have to take care of our country,"Trump told reportersfrom the Oval Office on Oct. 23, 2018, the day after his rally in Texas. "We can't continue to allow ourselves to be duped o...
students disagree. They worry that they will get less love from their parents if another comes to the family. What's worse, they may not get along well, or even fight against each other. First of all, it's very convenient for people to go ...
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling ground one fateful day, but their story started much earlier. Whether or not Hamilton did indeed “throw away his shot” is a question that’s puzzled people ever since. In the aftermath of the duel, Alexander Hamilton was lionized for hi...
Even Niels Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, admitted (quoted in Sundermeyer2014, p. 168): If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. In a nutshell, quantum physics confronts us with epistemic and ontic enigmas: ...
natesilver: I feel like one of the canonical (and at this point even perhaps slightly apocryphal) examples of civility is how Democratic and Republican senators vehemently disagree with one another but are nonetheless friends in real life and go out and get drunk together after the vote, etc....
work hard at your occupation, including what we would call continuing ed, stay socially connected thru clubs and associations (Confucius was very much focused on the smooth functioning of society), self control, having fun, safeguard your health, and most important of all - have concern for oth...
This idea can impact the lives of others in a positive way, whether or not others are happy with their decisions. I am Malala and Fahrenheit 451 tells how much standing up for whatever they believe in, even though people may disagree, can create a positive difference in others lives. 752...
In fact, I don’t think there’s that much that we disagree on. I didn’t say that Trig will necessarily ever be a burden on others. It could be that he will become one of the self-sufficient success stories concerning Down’s Syndrome children. What I said was that it’s a ...