Arthur Boyd's Shoalhaven landscapes reflect the extraordinary natural beauty of this area of New South Wales which caused him to marvel constantly about his surroundings. His paintings are a celebration of the grandeur and wonder of nature.
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Asya Passinsky, department professor, will present 'Ameliorative Metaphysics' at Philosophy: What and How? A workshop on the nature, aims, and methods of philosophy.
May 7-8th, Sky Lounge @univie.ac.at
Register here: philosophywhatandhow.phl.univie.ac.at
We're hiring!
The Aristotelian Society is recruiting a new Managing Editor. This is a demanding part-time role suitable for a current graduate student to undertake alongside their studies.
Deadline: Monday 18th May 2026. Read more here:
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Part of page 411, the Glossary to 'Faster Than Thought', edited by BV Bowden, 1953. Copy available online at https://archive.org/details/fasterthanthough00bvbo As well as the Cybernetics entry quoted in the post, it also has, 'Computor. "Bad spelling of computer" — Oxford English Dictionary.'
"Cybernetics. A word invented by Professor Wiener to describe the field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal. None of the authors quite understands what the word means, so it has not been used in this book."
Half (!!!) of all global solar capacity is installed in one country: China 🇨🇳 ☀️
For Daniele Barbaro, Palladio built a totally A+ villa in Maser. And guess who decorated it? Paolo Veronese, whose day is today.
Sorry, 3 hours 27 minutes
The Knowledge in Crisis Marathon Relay Team did the Vienna Marathon in 3 hours 30 minutes! Kati Farkas, Jonathan Kuntzen, Camilo Martinez and Matt Dougherty @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
Old Man, beautifully portrayed in 1485 by Filippino Lippi, d. OTD 1505.
So the opposition probably swung about 600-650k votes (500k net) from Orban and got about 600-650k of the net 700k new voters. (He will have had some new voters too, but not too many)
Thanks Ed for the tip. I don’t know this, I will check it out. My view is that when people talk about intelligence they are normally talking about something else. But it is often possible to translate what they say into something more intelligible
Likewise!
Thanks Jon!
Thanks Simon! I agree of course
I'm giving the Petrus Hispanus lectures in Lisbon, on the subject of my book-in-progress, 'Against Intelligence' cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/lancog/petru...
Maybe they think it’s ‘just war’ — like, ‘just a bit of fun’. ‘What are you complaining about, it’s just war!’
The key issue is whether Starmer misled Parliament. If he did, he has to go: parliamentary democracy cannot function unless we uphold that norm.
We'd demand it of Johnson & we should demand it of Starmer.
Future PMs (including a possible Prime Minister Farage) must know that this is inviolable. 1/
When the asteroid hit, why did birds survive when all other dinosaurs died?
It's a question I ponder in my upcoming book The Story of Birds. But first, I explore it here for @sciam.bsky.social !
www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-a...
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
This is very sad. What a terrible loss. I took a course and attended many events at Hampshire College when I was an undergrad at Amherst College. It was a special place and will be missed by very many. www.hampshire.edu/closure-info...
Green and Maroon, 1953 #americanart #rothko
A photo of the front cover of issue 1673 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “HUNGARY: ORBAN LOSES HISTORIC ELECTION.” The central image shows Viktor Orbán standing on stage alongside JD Vance, both raising their arms in front of a cheering crowd with Hungarian and US flags in the background. A speech bubble reads, “Who says America can’t achieve regime change?” A strapline at the bottom reads “HUGE TRIUMPH FOR MAGA (SURELY MAGYAR? ED.).”
Hungary: Orban loses historic election
The new Private Eye is out now.
As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means
New from the BJPS Review of Books
Deflating Mental Representation
– Frances Egan
Reviewed by Nico Orlandi
www.thebsps.org/reviewofbook...
#philsci #philsky
Miguel de la Riva @m-de-la-riva.bsky.social at @derstandard.at writes about our AI conference from March, where department professor, Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social presented.
Read the article below (in German)
#philsky #AI #ceuphilosophy
Pope Leo: "I have no fear, neither of the Trump administration nor speaking out loudly about the message of the gospel."
