REALITY: Week Ending 2014-02-22
Rapid Disaster Damage Assessments: Reality Check
Rapid Disaster Damage Assessments: Reality Check The Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) is the methodology used by UN agencies to assess and analyze humanitarian needs within two weeks of a sudden onset disaster. A detailed overview of the process, methodologies and tools behind MIRA is available here (PDF). These reports are particularly insightful when comparing them …
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Review: Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality
Huw Price (Editor), Richard Corry (Editor) 4.0 out of 5 stars My head hurts — connects science to philosophy as math, February 8, 2014 I was not expecting the math formulas and the dense language. It never occurred to me that philosphy would get so convuluted that it now has its own language and arcane …
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Steele on Reality, Intelligence, Ethics, & Solutions [Yale, 6 February 2014]
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Yale-6 On Thursday 6 February 2014 from 1800-1930, Robert Steele will address a group of undergraduates convened by Yale Politic. The event is free, open to the public without RSVP required, and the media has been invited. Yale University, Branford College Trumbull Room 74 High Street New Haven, CT 06511 Downloadable PPT (30 …
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Worth a Look: Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality – Russell’s Republic Revisited
This book has been ordered and will be reviewed shortly. There are no guest reviews to be drawn from. Amazon Book Description: The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality ‘a relic of a …
Theophillis Goodyear: Boris Artzybasheff – A Visionary Who Perhaps Saw Reality More Clearly Than We Do
Boris Artzybasheff’s anthropomorphic illustrations are surreal and often bordering on the grotesque. But as I look at them I can’t help but think that they’re more accurate representations of contemporary reality than what most of us perceive as reality. Modern citizens have become so alienated that we aren’t even aware of the degree to which we’ve become alienated. Many of Artzybasheff’s illustrations are weapons …
