'The words we use to describe people who have left their homes — from migrant to refugee to asylum-seeker — have major legal consequences for those to whom they are assigned and major influence on how they are perceived and welcomed.' | Lauren DeLaunay Miller newlinesmag.com/essays/how-def…

'When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.'

-- Isaac Asimov

The Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science thinks undergrad science majors should be taught philosophy of science. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Here at Philosophy@Cincinnati, we developed a course called How Science Works a decade ago...

Politicians don't parrot Kremlin talking points by accident.
My latest for The New Republic

newrepublic.com/article/180630…

Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer.

Plato, Socrates and Aristotle wrestled with the concept of akrasia –whether it’s possible to act against what you know to be good. #philosophy theguardian.com/wellness/2024/…

RFK Jr fires campaign aide after she said beating Biden was ‘number one priority’ independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
Rita Palma let the cat right out of the bag.

The plan could raise tens of billions of euros for Kyiv at a time when further US aid is being held up in Congress on.ft.com/3vNyPBy?

The Metropolitan police first had reports of unsolicited messages targeting a number of MPs, staff and journalists in Westminster last year, but officers failed to notify politicians. #r4today has gone quiet on this one?

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

'Mary Beard was vetoed as a trustee of the British Museum. It's hard to think of anyone better qualified – but she'd expressed pro-EU views in public.'

The BBC, Ofcom, now the British Museum – why do the Tories keep interfering in cultural appointments?
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'When access to culture is downgraded, the arts are sidelined in schools and civic places are neglected, we all lose.' The Guardian

According to an index developed in 2015, Earth is not the most habitable planet found yet.

Kepler-442b, a rocky near-Earth-sized exoplanet that is 1206 light-years away from Earth, has a rating of 0.836. On the other hand, Earth has a rating of 0.829.

The paper introducing the…

Bravo, Jake Tapper for setting the record straight on CNN, asking Republican Gov. Sununu, “What is this 9 month abortion claim? I've never heard of anyone getting an abortion one day before they're due. Republicans always say that. I've never heard of it happening.” Exactly.

'Two extravagances: to exclude Reason, and to admit only Reason.' Pascal

Did the voters of Ohio elect J.D. Vance to spread defeatist propaganda against Ukraine and cheerlead for Putin? What a disgusting pro-authoritarian spectacle.

Federalist Society Ringleader Leonard Leo REFUSES to comply with a Senate subpoena

Trump REFUSED to comply with a J6 subpoena

Jim Jordan, McCarthy, Meadows, Bannon, Perry, Biggs, Brooks all REFUSED subpoenas

But yea tell us more about how the GOP is the party of law & order 🙄

Some researchers claim that the youth mental health crisis is not real, it's just a moral panic; it's just that diagnostic criteria have changed, and stigma has reduced.

Zach Rausch shows that this is wrong. It is real and international:

afterbabel.com/p/the-girls-ar…

Universities cannot cut their way out of trouble. Every cut makes the situation worse, not better, and makes the death spiral go round faster and faster. It's just textbook-level stuff. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Here's a short video giving an account of the Great Rewiring, from an Australian perspective. The same thing happened there at the same time as in the USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand...

A century ago, Scots freethinkers managed to loosen Christianity’s grip. On the radical 'conscientious unbelievers' who subverted Scotland’s Christian establishment Dr Felicity Loughlin bit.ly/3xxyzqV

ABOUT TIME. The senate judiciary has subpoenaed Leonard Leo as part of a Supreme Court ethics investigation. foxnews.com/politics/conse…