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- How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/04/immersion-in-propaganda-racebased-nationalism-and-the-unfigureoutable-vortex-of-juche-thought-colin-.html 15 comments
- If The Louvre Was On Fire We Should Rescue The Art First, Before The People https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/09/if-the-louvre-was-on-fire-should-we-rescue-the-art-first-or-the-people.html 24 comments philosophy
- Epicureans on Squandering Life | 3 Quarks Daily https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/02/epicureans-on-squandering-life.html 11 comments philosophy
- The Duty To Forgive Murderers https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/02/the-duty-to-forgive-murderers.html 23 comments philosophy
- Moral Laziness https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2018/10/moral-laziness.html 210 comments philosophy
- "[T]he myth of Santa and the North Pole - is one of a morally tone-deaf autocrat who delivers toys to the children of well-off parents rather than life-saving basic goods to the most needy. But ... [it's] far worse than even that." --Scott F. Aikin, "The Case against Santa" http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/12/the-case-against-santa.html 13 comments philosophy
- Wake Up, America: A Vote For Donald Trump Is A Vote For A Full-Blown Psychopath http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/08/wake-up-america-a-vote-for-donald-trump-is-a-vote-for-a-full-blown-psychopath.html 45 comments politics
- Katalin Balog on The brain's I: science and the lived world http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/08/the-brains-i-science-and-the-lived-world.html#sthash.wdmlalsu.sfju 4 comments philosophy
- Merleau-Ponty & Wittgenstein http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/08/merleau-ponty-wittgenstein.html 7 comments philosophy
- The Two Party System is Officially a Nightmare http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/07/the-two-party-system-is-officially-a-nightmare.html 27 comments politics
- Only Human Rights are worth killing for http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/06/only-human-rights-are-worth-killing-for.html 111 comments philosophy
- The Banality Of Neoliberalism (As Exemplified By The Clintons) And Why Americans Never Saw Its Evil (Until Occupy, Bernie Sanders And Donald Trump Alerted Us) http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/05/the-banality-of-neoliberalism-as-exemplified-by-the-clintons-and-why-americans-never-saw-its-evil-un.html 7 comments politics
- Ethics and The Stanford Prison Experiment http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2015/07/ethics-and-the-stanford-prison-experiment.html 49 comments philosophy
- 3quarksdaily: An Intro to Supertasks http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2015/05/an-intro-to-supertasks.html#more 26 comments philosophy
- A new study from Stanford University finds that mentions of the word "God" or reading a paragraph about "God" increases risk-taking behavior. This challenges prior research on the link between religiosity and risky behaviors and suggests that thinking about God provides a false sense of security. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2015/02/does-thinking-about-god-increase-our-willingness-to-make-risky-decisions.html 255 comments science
- Children are special, but not particularly important http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2015/01/children-are-special-but-not-particularly-important.html 257 comments philosophy
- A new study finds that 'morning people' are more honest in the mornings and become more dishonest in the evening, but 'evening people' are more honest in the evenings. This challenges the conclusion of a prior study which suggested that morning morality was a general phenomenon. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/10/moral-time-does-our-internal-clock-influence-moral-judgments.html 9 comments science
- Socrates, evolution, and the word "theory" http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/08/socrates-logic-evolution-and-the-word-theory.html 3 comments philosophy
- Karl Marx's Guiding Idea http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/08/karl-marxs-guiding-idea.html 17 comments philosophy
- Peter Unger elaborates on his scandalous interview from 2 weeks ago about how philosophy is "empty" http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/a-little-taste-of-some-empty-ideas.html 49 comments philosophy
- Philosophy is a Bunch of Empty Ideas: Interview with Peter Unger http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/06/philosophy-is-a-bunch-of-empty-ideas-interview-with-peter-unger.html 264 comments philosophy
- The soccer club FC Bayern Munich was despised by the Nazis because it won its first German title under a Jewish club president and a Jewish trainer. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/05/fc-bayern-munich-too-jewish-for-the-nazis.html 3 comments history
- In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers at the University of Iowa investigate the impact of sharing sad emotions online via Facebook. The image of a crying person person makes people less likely to offer help, even though in real life crying elicits more support. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/03/sharing-our-sorrow-via-facebook.html 3 comments science
- Scientists are building gene circuits in cells to create bio computers. Most groups have used digital computing principles but an MIT group has now created a more powerful analog computing circuit in cells. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/01/synthetic-biology-engineering-life-to-examine-it.html 8 comments science
- Can we hold criminals responsible for their actions if neuroscience proves free will is an illusion? A debate on fate, freedom and neuroscience [VIDEO] http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/12/will-neuroscience-prove-free-will-is-an-illusion.html 274 comments philosophy
- Poverty in the United States: More than a quarter of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans live in poverty. Women at all age ranges have higher poverty rates than men. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/09/poverty-in-the-united-states.html#more 5 comments politics
- 3quarksdaily: Bin Laden Won: No Man Has Changed America More For The Worse http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/08/bin-laden-won-no-man-has-changed-america-more-for-the-worse.html 13 comments politics
- Why Epistemology Matters http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/05/why-epistemology-matters.html 4 comments philosophy
- Horwich vs. Lynch on Wittgenstein's therapeutic conception of philosophy http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/04/horwich-vs-lynch-on-wittgensteins-therapeutic-conception-of-philosophy.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 11 comments philosophy
- Platonism: An Abuser's Guide http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/02/platonism-an-abusers-guide.html 3 comments philosophy
- Study in Journal of Psychiatric Research shows that people with mental illnesses are less likely to be engaged in 'creative professions', study is misrepresented by BBC http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/12/there-was-no-couch-on-mental-illness-and-creativity.html 5 comments science
- The Time Has Come To Arm Our 6-Year-Olds With Assault Weapons - How could that possibly go wrong? http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/12/the-time-has-come-to-arm-our-6-year-olds-with-assault-weapons.html 8 comments politics
- Edward Witten on String theory, I haven't seen anyone else describe it in such a lucid fashion. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/04/edward-witten-on-string-theory.html 13 comments science
- Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Why Nobody, Including Obama, Will Do Anything About Them http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/04/jobs-jobs-jobs-why-nobody-including-obama-will-do-a-damn-thing-about-them-plus-six-common-sense-solu.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Knowing the Taylor Series - It was a matter of life or death for Nobel prize winning Physicist Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2008/06/taylor-series-.html 29 comments math
- Don't hate the corporations... change the game. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/06/they-will-do-what-the-law-allows-or-dont-hate-the-player-change-the-game.html#more 12 comments politics
- Immersion in propaganda: how North Koreans see themselves http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/04/immersion-in-propaganda-racebased-nationalism-and-the-unfigureoutable-vortex-of-juche-thought-colin-.html 335 comments worldnews
- Short takes on philosophy http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/11/short-takes.html 4 comments philosophy
- Why didn't I know of this website? http://www.3quarksdaily.com/ 4 comments science
- Seduction 101 for Logicians and Economists http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/04/seduction-101-for-logicians-and-economists.html 21 comments math