Plato: Plato. Early life of Plato, Platonic realism, Theory of Forms, Platonic epistemology, Trial of Socrates, Allan Bloom, Seventh Letter (Plato), Leo Strauss, Ancient philosophy, Apology (Plato)
The Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff tells us that charged particles don't make it through the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photon radiation. High energy protons just hit low energy photons and voilà, we lose them. Nevertheless there are indications that high energy photons fare better; the CMB seems to be more transparent to them. I don't understand this, because long ago, I studied Sakurai's...
Yes, today is once again my birthday. And while I'd prefer to overlook this momentous occasion, I'm excited for this year's birthday because I'm all threes. I'm turning 33 on the 3rd of the month, giving me three threes in my birthday. I'd like to explain the cosmic, fortuitous, mystic, and altogether exciting implications this numerical combination holds, but I will leave that to the great poets of...
I’ve owed all of you an explanation for this blog for some time, but I dread writing posts like these. The best discussion of how poetry, politics and philosophy relate is Book X of Plato’s Republic. What is below is obviously not meant to replace that discussion in any way. All I want to do [...]
The following text is from an article I recently wrote for Mann on the Street (December 2009). As always, I welcome comments from readers. I am an avid believer in the notion that doing good means doing well. Click for the pdf version of " Investment Ethics: How to Make Money and Win Clients " by Dr. Susan Mangiero, CFA, FRM. According to Plato, “Good people do not need laws to tell...
Readers Ken Feinstein kindly calls my attention to Librivox.org which has many free audibooks, including major works of philosophy: Hume's Treatise (vol. 1), for example, as well as works by Plato, Mill, and Kant, among others. Of course, cruising down...
Call for Papers PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE An international congress on philosophical questions related to literature and the study of literature, at the University of Vaasa, Finland, 27-28 May 2010. Plato, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche are classical examples of the philosophers who discuss philosophical ideas with literary style. Writers of world literature such as Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and Beauvoir, for...
David Cameron's philosopher king behind the idea of 'Red Toryism' Age: 42. Appearance: A foppish Friar Tuck in a suit. Phillip Blond, eh? Sounds like a supermarket's in-house fashion label. Well, it's not. It's a man. A king among men, in fact. A king? Yes, and not just any old crown-wearing man-about-kingdom; he's a philosopher king. David Cameron's philosopher king, to be precise. And what exactly...
The novel antiplatelet agent ticagrelor was evaluated against clopidogrel in the PLATO trial of patients with acute coronary syndromes. This article discusses the main findings and importance of this study, including the reduction in mortality associated with ticagrelor therapy.
Here's a list of texts I'll be studying for my comprehensive exams. Rhetoric is one of my two secondary areas of study. Isocrates. Against the Sophists . Plato. Republic Book X. Aristotle. Rhetoric Books 1-2. Cicero. De Oratore . Augustine. On Christian Doctrine . Erasmus, Desiderius. Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style. Ecclesiastes . De Pizan, Christine. The Book of the City of Ladies . Vico,...
Mike Havrilla submits: On 11/19/09, AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN ) announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the FDA for ticagrelor, an investigational oral antiplatelet treatment for the reduction of major adverse cardiac events in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The proposed trade name for ticagrelor is BRILINTA, pending approval from the FDA. This submission is based on...
The world's population really needs the skills (literacy!) to balance arguments and debate issues. Today being World Philosophy Day, 19 November 2009 we can see this need as global events re-frame our words. For decades now some of the world's capitals have become synonymous with fevered political debate, equality, equity, poverty, power.... 'Copenhagen' is the latest example, stressing the need for...
New data from a late-stage, head-to-head trial demonstrates that a group of the sickest heart attack patients taking AstraZeneca's experimental blood clot drug Brilinta experienced fewer serious cardiovascular events than the patients who were given Plavix. Significantly, researchers also say that Brilinta patients were no more likely to suffer from serious bleeding than the Plavix group. The data...
These guys don't say much but their thoughts are priceless - Plato, Lao Tzu, Arther Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. They also double as fridge magnets but the door is overcrowded (see below), so they reside on a bookshelf adjacent to a digital radio, books and some useful "Believe in God" spray. It's really a utility shelf for existential emergencies. They crop up around here now and...
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