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Will Catalonia’s declaration of independence from Spain lead to a second Spanish Civil War? (Here is a link to a previous post regarding Catalan independence.)

Did you know that today is the 136th anniversary of the historic gun battle between a group of outlaws led by Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers and a group of lawmen led by Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday at … Continue reading →

In honor of all-around great guy and French basketball power forward Boris Diaw: Mon frère Boris, via Jonathan Abrams at Grantland Boris Diaw, the most interesting man on Earth, via Tim Carmody at kottke.org Interview with Diaw, who is down to … Continue reading →

Are there any moral truths? On this day in history, the Moral Science Club–a formal discussion group for Cambridge University’s philosophers–held a meeting to explore this very question. British authors John Eidinow and David Edmonds wrote an entire book (their … Continue reading →

Source: Jim Zimmerlin (hat tip: digg)

We’ve been reading Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen’s fascinating book “Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong,” a book we discovered last month at a conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Law held at Savannah Law School. (Dr Wallach was the keynote speaker.) Although their … Continue reading →

In a recent blog post dated 20 October on his blog Marginal Revolution, our friend and colleague Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason, shared with his readers his typology of economic approaches to the world: (1) the rational actor … Continue reading →