Very good balance, the Swiss lad. I trust he’s going to put that satellite dish back on his neighbour’s wall afterwards.

No rules.. and oof, no pants! Joan Chitty’s come round and she stopped chatting during that one. The ‘no dress’ gimmick worked for Bucks Fizz so watch out for Finland!

It's Marina Satti, OK? No arguments. She's the real deal.

Completed in 1773, the 'Silver Swan' is an automaton on display at the Bowes Museum in England. The swan, which is life-sized, is a clockwork-driven device that includes a music box.

[📹 Helaina Sharpley]

The best books on Taste | Recommended by Barry C. Smith (Barry C Smith)

What creates flavour? Our sensory environment, our knowledge, or the existing qualities of what we eat? The philosopher explores the best five books on taste. | fivebooks.com/best-books/bar… (via Five Books)

I see that philosopher Omari Edwards of Institute of Art and Ideas and HowTheLightGetsIn Festival is on X/Twitter. It was Edward who invited me to write my little tribute to Daniel Dennett, and I'm grateful to him for that. He's definitely worth following!

In 2026 it'll be 50 years since 'Nuts in May' was first broadcast. Shall we start a campaign for Mike Leigh, Alison Steadman, and Roger Sloman to make a sequel? ('Nuts in December' maybe.) I'd love to find out what's happened to Keith and Candice Marie.

If every human had this childhood, the
world would be perfect

“Whatever the question asked, subjects on psychedelics are much more likely to reply in the affirmative. Psychedelic science displays a similarly obliging tendency to produce the results that researchers seek.” —Mike Jay go.nybooks.com/3wk7VS1

philosophy (n.) the currently fashionable take on what things are like sub specie aeternitatis

“287 people who received an IPP sentence have died in prison, 90 taking their own life. IPP prisoners are almost three times as likely to self-harm as prisoners with determinate sentences and even those serving life.”

Kenan Malik on a grotesque scandal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

BH superb (as always) in Jane Howell's superb version of the Henry VI plays (the best of the BBC Shakespeare series of the late 70s/early 80s)

A super piece by Joshua Forstenzer .

Fantastic Cretan town house for sale! See here cretanproperty.com

'In the early 1700s a young man wrote a lively Latin poem of 95 hexameters on nothing but cricket. This piece In Certamen Pilae (On the Ball Contest) is glossed as 'Anglice, A Cricket-Match'. It's the first explicit account of how this sport was played.'
antigonejournal.com/2022/09/certam…

This is astonishing

On the blog today, François Kammerer and Keith Frankish (Keith Frankish) discuss their recent edited special issue on the forms that #introspection can take.
imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2024/05/why-it…

Great opportunity for a Post-doc with a first degree in Philosophy, Pyschology or Medicine to join MatthewBroome💙, Prof Lisa Bortolotti and colleagues at UofBirmingham on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

My article on fine-tuning arguments for the multiverse is now online at Noûs! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/no… #philsci

I examine the muddle of issues in the debate (Baysian background, indexicality, rigid refererence, selection effects) in order to sort things out

Short summary below🧵

And here, in super-fast time, is the audio version of last Thursday's Mind Chat on psychedelics with Sarah Lane-Ritchie and Aidan podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mind-…
Philip Goff