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    Objectivism Is The Everyman's Philosophy

    In the universe, what you see is what you get,

    figuring it out for yourself is the way to happiness,

    and each person's independence is respected by all

  • Rand's Philosophy in Her Own Words

    • "Metaphysics: Objective Reality"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed/Wishing won’t make it so." "The universe exists independent of consciousness"
    • "Epistemology: Reason" "You can’t eat your cake and have it, too." "Thinking is man’s only basic virtue"
    • "Ethics: Self-interest" "Man is an end in himself." "Man must act for his own rational self-interest" "The purpose of morality is to teach you[...] to enjoy yourself and live"
    • "Politics: Capitalism" "Give me liberty or give me death." "If life on earth is [a man's] purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being"
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    Biologists Replicate Key Evolutionary Step

    dream_weaver
    By dream_weaver,
    Yeast not only gives rise to bread, it gave rise to an answer to a question that has eluded evolutionary biologists.   "To understand why the world is full of plants and animals, including humans, we need to know how one-celled organisms made the switch to living as a group, as multicelled organisms," said Sam Scheiner, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Environmental Biology. "This study is the first to experimentally observe that transition, provi

    Reblogged:Four Random Things

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    A Friday Hodgepodge Probably not as hot as it looks... (Image by Thembi Johnson, via Unsplash, license.)1. Some time ago, I tried a new recipe that called for jalapeño peppers and was surprised that the ones I bought weren't that spicy. Memory jogged, I also remembered having nachos with cheese and sliced jalapeños at a sporting event some months before and thinking that either the peppers weren't hot or I was just inured to spiciness. I bumped into the answer recently within "Here's Why Jal

    USA v. Donald J. Trump – Indictment 8/1/23

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Indictment

    Notes and Sources on Slavery and Abolition in the US

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    Resource at the Library of Congress for Good Firsthand Recollections of Lives of Enslaved People

    Reblogged:Thoughts on Paper Notes

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    Someone I take to be a recent-ish graduate puts forth thoughts about paper note-taking, prompted by the project of scanning in old notes and other materials from college. The post opens in part with the following disclaimer:The advice is very different from much of what I have encountered, but I found it well-considered and superior in certain ways to those cultures. I think the bullet points on preferring loose-leaf paper to notebooks are exemplary, because you get reasons along with the advi

    Reblogged:Can the GOP Recover From Trump?

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    At the Daily Beast, Matt Lewis argues in a vein similar to others that Trump's primary victories are weak showings for someone who is effectively an incumbent, and claims that they portend problems in the general election:Won't support doesn't have to mean will vote for Biden. The margins in the election are thin enough that sufficient numbers of a candidate's potential voters staying home in a few swing states can affect the outcome. When two fifths of a party's voters reject its incumbent and

    Reblogged:"Public Utility" vs. Speech and Property

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    An article about social media laws being scrutinized by the Supreme Court summarizes the stakes as follows:Or, as conservatives of the ilk who once whined about "fairness" in search results, are social media companies "public utilities" and, as such, subject to longstanding (but illegitimate) regulations? It is a shame that we have this longstanding abuse of government power on the books, because it muddies what should be a clear-cut case of the states of Florida and Texas violating the propert

    Reblogged:Slate Half-Explores Trump's Felony Problem

    Gus Van Horn blog
    By Gus Van Horn blog,
    What do I think of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: But I don't think of him... -- Ayn Rand *** Recalling the "Shy Trump hypothesis" -- a 2016 attempt to explain how Donald Trump was elected against the run of polling predictions, Slate considers polling data about the question of whether Donald Trump would lose votes in the event he is convicted at one of his trials. The article notes that while this hypothesis didn't hold up, it nevertheless raises the implicit question Wil

    What Has the 'Pro-Life' Movement Won?

    Boydstun
    By Boydstun,
    What Has the Pro-Life Movement Won? by Ross Douthat - 2 April 2021 Excellent review of what it has come to in the US. Legally and politically well-informed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Content of Roe and a Moral Rationale

    What Is Quantum Mechanics

    Bill Hobba
    By Bill Hobba,
    Like many people, I have struggled to understand what QM is and what it says.   Recently, after many years I have formed the following answer. There is a reality out there, independent of us and amenable to rational analysis by the conscious mind.   Some parts of that reality we directly interact with every day.   Others, like Electric fields, are necessary for well-understood laws to hold (eg Wigner proved if there were no electric fields, then conservation of momentum would not hold in vi

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