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25 Oct 2014

The Nylon Riots

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Nylon is a generic term for a group of synthetic polymers known as aliphatic polyamides, first produced in 1935 by Wallace Carothers...
24 Oct 2014

On the Nose

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Idealist philosophers, such as Kant, hate the nose: they only care about the eyes and the production of visual images and men...
18 Oct 2014

In Praise of Nivea: The Snow-White Miracle Cream

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Although the ingredients for Nivea Creme are openly available on the Beiersdorf website and are little different from other c...

The Present is a Foreign Country

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The Bower, Bedford's Park, Collier Row, Essex © Copyright John Winfield and licensed for reuse under the CCL The pas...

A Brief Note on Heaven and Hell

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The Amusement of the Saints in Heaven by Watson Heston Proponents of heaven and hell usually have very little to tell us about the...
12 Oct 2014

On the Question of Care

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Image taken from Nolen Gertz's amusing blog: ethicistforhire.blogspot.co.uk The idea of tying the concept of care exclusively...
11 Oct 2014

The Case of Ghoncheh Ghavami

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As profoundly ridiculous as the recent case of the seven young people tried in Tehran for singing and dancing to a pop song was (...
4 Oct 2014

Prisoners of Fashion

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A convict uniform 1830-49 Copyright National Library of Australia (nla.pic-anc6393471) I don't know if anybody has ever actu...
3 Oct 2014

A Brief Note on the Case of King Lear (For EF)

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Goneril, Regan and Cordelia   © SingerofIceandFire (2012) deviantart.com Is there a more hateful and pathetic figure in Shakesp...
2 Oct 2014

On the Beauty and the Genius of i-Phone 6

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Apparently, many buyers of the new i-Phone - the i-Phone 6 - are angry that, due to its slimness, it's easily bent when carried a...