With Such A Lustre He That Runs May Read
Feb 12SPOILER ALERT FOR SECRET WARRIORS #1: Spider-man may be gushing over Obama, but Nick Fury sure isn’t. In last week’s Secret Warriors #1, Fury finds out that S.H.I.E.L.D., the anti-terrorist organisation he’s worked for since Strange Tales #135 in 1965, has all along been a front for the terrorist group HYDRA. So he breaks into [...]
Beauty in Alabama
Feb 12Next month (March 7-9) the Auburn University Philosophy Department is hosting its first annual philosophy conference – the Auburn Philosophy Conference, or APC for short. It’ll have a different topic each year; this year’s topic is Beauty. This first time around we have only invited speakers (hence no call for papers); this approach may or [...]
Darwin 200
Feb 12In honour of Charles Darwin’s bicentenary, an observation: How are statists and creationists alike? For one thing, as I’ve observed before, both “distrust invisible-hand processes and cannot conceive of order emerging except through some sort of centralised top-down control.” For another, both raise the same hackneyed objections to spontaneous order again and again, as if [...]
Gaimania!
Feb 12I saw the movie (3D version, which is definitely the way to see it) of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline the other night; it was beautifully done (and all physically real stop-motion – no CGI) and I highly recommend it. Admittedly, I have some gripes about the story changes (this review by Gary Westfahl captures many of [...]
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