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The unreality of luck

Fernando Kaskais

Fifteen-year-old Sangita stands in the remains of her room after the earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015. ‘I am lucky that I’m still alive… Our neighbours died, their bodies are still under the rubble.’ Photo by Vlad Sokhin/Panos by Optimists believe in good luck, pessimists in bad. But if it’s all a matter of perspective, does luck even exist? Steven Hales is professor and chair of philosophy at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. His latest book is This Is Philosophy: An Introduction(2012). Edited by Nigel Warburton Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a technical draughtsman for oil tankers when in the summer of 1945 his employer … Continue reading The unreality of luck

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Potential Reasons Why Your Girlfriend Is Suddenly Horny

Fernando Kaskais

by Tracy Moore Contrary to age-old, legendary tales of stiff breezes and brushed-against boners, men do not have the monopoly on spontaneously induced horniness. Women, too, “turn horny” or “get a horn on” or “horn it up,” for as many varied and random reasons as men do. Sure, we may generally be too repressed to express it like sports commentators narrating our own horny memoir, but that doesn’t mean we are immune to the horn-inducing moments of life. Still, it appears to puzzle men when they witness a woman copping to her own horn identity. On one forum, a man … Continue reading Potential Reasons Why Your Girlfriend Is Suddenly Horny

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FEAR IS THE ENEMY OF FREEDOM

Fernando Kaskais

by Gary Z McGee, Staff Writer Waking Times  “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” ~Shakespeare The bad thing about all the devil’s being here is that we’re surrounded by goddamned devils. The good thing about all the devil’s being here is that we have something to fight against, something to overcome. We have something to be stronger than, healthier than, more flexible than. We have a rigid fragility to shatter over our flexible antifragility. We have a cowardice to match our courage against. We have an excuse to “rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light!” In short: … Continue reading FEAR IS THE ENEMY OF FREEDOM

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Study: Women peak at 18 on dating apps. Men peak at 50.

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by STEPHEN JOHNSON The world of online dating can be many things: a place to start a serious relationship, a market for one-night stands, a nightmarish hellscape of rejection and awkward encounters, or, for most people, a combination of the three. But for sociologists who study how people find and choose romantic partners, online dating amounts to a paradise of data. In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, sociologists used that data—taken from heterosexual online daters who lived in Boston, New York City, Seattle or Chicago in 2014—to examine desirability in online dating markets and the strategies that people … Continue reading Study: Women peak at 18 on dating apps. Men peak at 50.

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A Gentleman’s Guide to Revenge

Fernando Kaskais

Is it better served hot, cold, or not at all? by Andrew Fiouzi Usually a trope reserved for telenovellas, thrillers and basically every Tarantino movie, revenge has recently made its way into national headlines. After being unceremoniously fired from her White House gig, former Celebrity Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault-Newman swiftly got her vengeance: “Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman released another alleged secret recording — that she claims took place one day after her firing by Chief of Staff John Kelly — of a phone call with President Trump, who seems unaware of her departure from the administration,” reported Axios. The tape was just another instance of a former Trump … Continue reading A Gentleman’s Guide to Revenge

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Robot says: Whatever

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Chief priest Bungen Oi holds a robot AIBO dog prior to its funeral ceremony at the Kofukuji temple in Isumi, Japan, on 26 April 2018. Photo by Nicolas Datiche /AFP/Getty What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires by Margaret Boden is research professor of cognitive science at University of Sussex. She is a fellow of the British Academy, and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Her latest book is AI: Its Nature and Future (2016). Edited by Sally Davies In Henry James’s intriguing novella The Beast in the Jungle (1903), … Continue reading Robot says: Whatever

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Good Vibrations: A Buddhist Music Playlist

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Photo by Mark Solarski | https://tricy.cl/2MlmE75 A collection of Buddhist-inspired songs from both traditional and unexpected sources to help you wake up or just chill out By Cara Dibdin Music has long served as a bridge between the ordinary and the divine. And while the early vinaya [monastic code] required monks and nuns to abstain from listening to or playing music, the Buddha’s teachers were preserved through chanting and oral recitation of the canonical texts. As Buddhism spread across the world, methods of transmission changed, as did the way music was used as a part of the tradition—as mantras, offerings, and … Continue reading Good Vibrations: A Buddhist Music Playlist