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3 Quarks Dailyby Tim Sommers10d ago
by Tim Sommers This is the second of two parts [part 1 is here] on whether implanted beliefs can count as knowledge. The question matters outside science fiction.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robert Jensen10d ago
by Robert Jensen Conclusive evidence is in from new DNA tests: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Hanas10d ago
by Jim Hanas I met Derrida in Memphis in 1993. We were standing by a pool and he was smoking a cigar. I’m sure I was smoking a cigarette. I was twenty-four.
3 Quarks Dailyby Ashutosh Jogalekar11d ago
by Ashutosh Jogalekar As the relentless march of AI in science continues, I found myself pondering the other day whether there ever would be a time when a human scientist would do the last human...
3 Quarks Dailyby David Greer12d ago
by David Greer To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny12d ago
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And...
3 Quarks Dailyby Dwight Furrow12d ago
by Dwight Furrow It’s not intimate, it’s philosophy. That sounds like something ChatGPT would say but there is truth in it. Philosophical writing is seldom intimate.
3 Quarks Dailyby Carlota Figueroa13d ago
by Carlota Figueroa Picture this: it’s Friday at 10:30 pm, and you have an 11:59 pm deadline that you thought was much easier than it actually is.
3 Quarks Dailyby Ken MacVey13d ago
by Ken MacVey Chief Justice Roberts in his 2005 confirmation hearing famously testified that as a Supreme Court justice his job was not to “pitch or bat” but to be an “umpire” calling “balls and...
3 Quarks Dailyby Nils Peterson14d ago
by Nils Peterson Here is the longed-for Theory of Everything that we have sought since Einstein. Dreams Dreaming began 13 1/2 billion years ago with the big bang.
3 Quarks Dailyby TJ Price14d ago
by TJ Price Thursday afternoon—though it was early evening, already a septembric dusk—I found myself in a used bookstore somewhere distant from my normal routine and habit.
3 Quarks Dailyby Carol A Westbrook15d ago
by Carol A Westbrook This is the first time I’ve ever re-posted a 3 Quarks Daily article. I was led to re-examine the idea of visits by Aliens—particularly in the UFO phenomen—by two incidents.
3 Quarks Dailyby Anton Cebalo15d ago
by Anton Cebalo I recently came back from a trip through a few cities along the Adriatic Sea after visiting my extended family.
3 Quarks Dailyby Steve Szilagyi16d ago
by Steve Szilagyi Here’s a song you don’t hear much anymore. Old Black Joe. It used to be really popular. I mean, really popular.
3 Quarks Dailyby Mike Bendzela17d ago
by Mike Bendzela From preface of Number One last month: Anytime is a good time to take stock of what you think you know, or what you think you have actually learned, but once you have seen...
3 Quarks Dailyby Bill Murray17d ago
by Bill Murray The world of unquestioned American leadership is gone, and the next American president cannot restore the trust of America’s allies.
3 Quarks Dailyby Thomas Fernandes17d ago
by Thomas Fernandes In this video, too grainy for even a screenshot, you can see 3 men walking up to a pride of about 15 lions while they are feeding on their kill.
3 Quarks Dailyby Peter Topolewski18d ago
by Peter Topolewski Ram in choice cuts and scraps. Crank the handle. Ground meat comes out. Quite the invention, the meat grinder. Unless you’re the meat.
3 Quarks Dailyby Mark Harvey18d ago
by Mark Harvey On a hot Ohio day on July 4th, 1919, a young man named Jack Dempsey from the tiny town of Manassa, Colorado, stepped into the ring to fight Jess Willard, a boxer who was sixty pounds...
3 Quarks Dailyby Scott Samuelson19d ago
by Scott Samuelson Let me say upfront that I have nothing against dogs. In fact, I’ve loved certain dogs more than I’ve loved certain family members.
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