Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

This book rocks! Not an extra word in it, and yet every word is essential. The characters are rendered with absolute clarity and sympathy. It’s intensely moving without being sentimental, and it makes you think. What could be better?

The US Navy is experimenting with massive shock waves that will be used to destroy incoming torpedos. While this may be a great idea for protecting submariners, the Navy–yet again–fails to consider the effect of massive shock waves to marine mammals who rely on sonar. The testing alone could cause massive strandings of disoriented whales…

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There’s a great discussion on this over at the Emerging Writers Network website. You can access it here.

Well, my stipend check from Bread Loaf came yesterday. I wonder if they know I’d do it for free? Shh. Don’t tell. Seriously, I love that place and it takes about three weeks for me to come down from the high of being there. And at about three weeks post-Bread Loaf I also begin to…

Well, I am off in the morning to start my stint as Social Staff at Bread Loaf and I am very excited. Last year, I sent my grandmother a postcard from there as she always supported my writing. She was a journalism major in college, and attended school with Eric Severeid (I think that’s right).…

Here is an awesome short video of a crow using a tool–but not just using the tool, also shaping it to fit her use. Amazing.

And so do their poor mothers.