Posts Tagged ‘Russell’

Hey, I Haven’t Done A Meme-y Thing In A While

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

And I did like this one when I found it at greybon.
What’s a book you most want to read again for the first time?:
Oh, that’s a tough one. I’d probably want to pick something that changed my head in some significant way, which biases the field in favour of things I read earlier in my [...]

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Teach The Controversy

Monday, January 25th, 2010

I believe I would happily wear any of the Teach The Controversy shirts at WearScience, but for obvious reasons, I would especially like this one:

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More on Youtube, Russell, whackjobs

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Following up on that earlier Russell finding on Youtube, I see that there’s a veritable treasure trove of Russell stuff on there. For instance, I quite like the little TVO presentation on the Three Passions Of Bertrand Russell, or getting to listen to Russell debate the existence of God with a Jesuit philosophy scholar1, or [...]

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Russell Video Clip

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Look what I found while trolling YouTube–an ancient CBC clip where Russell is being interviewed on the question of faith in a god.
(I wonder if I have the only 5-year old in town who can identify Bertrand Russell when she sees him in a YouTube clip.)

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What You Need To Know

Friday, May 9th, 2008

I have been insanely busy and travelling all week. This will continue tomorrow, hopefully reaching a peak so that things will mellow out a bit into the weekend.
The remainder of this post is for the gentleman who, when challenged by me today asked me with a straight face “You don’t need proof that 1+1=2, do [...]

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There’s not a lot of pop music with this inspiration

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

That’s the video for the World Party song Is It Like Today?.
The reason it’s here: it’s explicitly inspired by, and intended to be a precis of, Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy.
Lyrics after the jump:

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Russell’s Teapot

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Last night my mother sent me one of those horrible “email forwards”. She’s the only person with my email address who actually passes these hideous things on to me, knock on wood.
This one was one of those tedious things that abuse casuistry to snark at people who put reason above faith–you know the type, the [...]

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From Russell’s Autobiography

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I am learning much about growing old. Thirty-five years ago I was lately married, childless, very happy, and beginning to taste the joys of success. Family appeared to me as an external power hampering to freedom: the world, to me, was a world of individual adventure. I wanted to think my own thoughts, find my [...]

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Russell, Gaby, and the H-Bomb

Monday, February 11th, 2008

That’s a portrait of Bertrand Russell, taken by the relatively famous quebecois photographer and portrait specialist, Gabriel Desmarais (who usually went by just “Gaby“). The portrait was taken at Russell’s place in Wales (“Plas Penrhyn”) in 1961, which would probably mean Russell is 89 in the photo.
It is one of a series of photomontages Gaby [...]

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Bertrand Russell Essays

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

For your edification tonight, I present three essays by old Bertie, in audio form. A couple of hours of listening that might expand your mind.
(It’s not him doing the reading–his voice, which I may share with you later–was not nearly as appealing as this reader’s.)
The essays are:

What I Believe: This is the big one–Russell [...]

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