The video below tracks the rise in income and life expectancy of the nations over the last 200 years. Interesting data and fascinating style of presentation. And yes, even the worst off now have more than the worst off from generations past. The advance of western culture has benefitted all the peoples of the earth. …
Refudiate has been named the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2010 Word of the Year I’ve posted about the word and its origin here. refudiate verb used loosely to mean “reject”: she called on them to refudiate the proposal to build a mosque. [origin — blend of refute and repudiate] A cute piece of intellectual elitist …
For those who like their information in list form Library Science Degree provides the 50 most hated figures in literary history (in their opinion). The list actually includes 51 names, and includes one who is not a fictional character, but is real. And who quite prefers us to think of him as imaginary.
From a post on First Things which provides a transcription of Singer’s answer to a question at a Princeton symposium on abortion: Q (beginning at 1:25:22): When discussing at which point after birth we would give full moral status, you gave…a legal or public policy point about practicality… Forgetting the practical or public policy questions, …
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