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Anthrax, strychnine and the fallacy of Antigone’s argument

One should feel grateful to Princeton molecular biology professor Lee Silver for this wonderful video, detailing…
Recursion: Cortázar and Antonioni

Continuity of the Parks, by Julio Cortázar He had begun to read the novel a few…
Software engineering & competence without knowledge

While writing software and endlessly refactoring to reach the ‘ultimate’ structure, one finds oneself often wondering…
Uberize the economy and the social fabric

The Emerging Platform Economy is the new way to do business. Legacy business models are asymptotically…
Popper on demarcation and the power of epicycles

Suppose you had a standard Fourier series representing an arbitrary function. Suppose now this function is…
Chomsky & Hobsbawm or: Homage to Catalonia

Let’s start again with late Tony Judt’s comment about Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, where one can read…
On mandarins and epistemological fallacies

Reading late Tony Judt’s appraisal of Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, one meets a very interesting remark: Eric…
“Galileo was no idiot” (or “Wir werden wissen”)

What is the exact meaning of Hilbert’s famous remark that: “Galileo was no idiot. Only an…
“To enquire and to create”

There used to be an old concept in classical philosophy, the concept of the full and…
“The Look of Silence” and Antonio Gramsci

Watching the stunning documentary “The Look of Silence” by Joshua Oppenheimer is a moving experience. Of…