Here are some interesting articles I’ve come across recently, for your consideration:
Philosophy of science: the first 2.5 millennia. Too bad it stops at Feyerabend… (Philosophy Now)
The worst patients in the world. Americans are hypochondriacs, yet we skip our checkups. We demand drugs we don’t need, and fail to take the ones we do. No wonder the U.S. leads the world in health spending. (The Atlantic)
Was The Odyssey the first Greek novel? (Lit Hub)
The physics of causality: why do we remember the past and not the future? Untangling the connections between cause and effect, choice, and entropy. (FQXi Community)
Libraries in the ancient world, a short (and somewhat surprising) history. (Ancient History Encyclopedia)
Philosophy as a Way of Life
NOOOOOO, the Odyssey was not a novel!
And, you didn’t post one of Horgan’s pieces about overtesting etc.?
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One library may be missing from that list. It’s arguably that before their final hiding, the various scrolls eventually stashed in the caves at Qumran were a library, whether or not their holders were that close to being Josephus’ Essenes or not.
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