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Radical Education And The Sublimation Of The Erotic Imagination - 3 Quarks Daily

by Eric J. WeinerThrough the academic grapevine, it came; a story of an eminent sociologist who argued that he wouldn’t want to work with graduate students

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Enabling Story Universes: A Conversation with William K Gillespie - 3 Quarks Daily

by Philip Graham

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Franco is still dead, the 50th year edition, Part I: Of Legacies and Denied Justice - 3 Quarks Daily

by David J. LobinaHaving lived in Madrid through much of my teen years, I remember the “20-N” rather well – November the 20th being the date Francisco

Nov 18, 20259 min read

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Brave Horses and Insufferable Horsey People - 3 Quarks Daily

by Mark HarveyI have a horse named Mexico that tore one of his legs to shreds last week when he got caught in a wire fence. It was a bit of a fluke because we

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Defending the Humanities - 3 Quarks Daily

by Mindy Clegg

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A Play, a Line, a Power Rediscovered - 3 Quarks Daily

by Peter Topolewski

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The Rules of The Hunt - Part II - 3 Quarks Daily

by Thomas FernandesLike the Thomson’s gazelle of Part I, the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) evolved an ability to communicate with predators. Not

Nov 20, 20256 min read

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The President of Might-Have-Been - 3 Quarks Daily

by Steve SzilagyiPrologueMost people visit the James A. Garfield Memorial to admire its Victorian splendor, or to pay respects to a forgotten president. I go

Nov 21, 20258 min read

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Books As Memorabilia - 3 Quarks Daily

by Mary Hrovat

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The American South And Me: Maine . . . ? - 3 Quarks Daily

by Mike BendzelaI do not remember whether one of our cats had killed it or whether I had run over it with the lawn mower, but I do remember peeling the poor

Nov 21, 20257 min read

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Southern Worry Territory: The Indian Spectre Of Delimitation - 3 Quarks Daily

by Dilip D'SouzaIn South India, they're worried. For following some stated national priorities, for performing well at them in comparison to the North, the

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Plato’s Defense of the Humanities - 3 Quarks Daily

by Scott SamuelsonI was a freshman in college when I first read Plato’s Apology, his version of the event that probably made the biggest mark on him: his

Nov 23, 202511 min read

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Tributaries of the Hidden Curriculum - 3 Quarks Daily

by TJ Price

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June - 3 Quarks Daily

by Azadeh Amirsadri

Nov 23, 20258 min read

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"A Christmas Carol" - A Story for Buddhists, Atheists and Everyone Else - 3 Quarks Daily

by Ken MacVey

Nov 24, 20259 min read

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Democratic Beauty - 3 Quarks Daily

by Sherman J. Clark

Nov 24, 20258 min read

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Between the Electron and the Amulet - 3 Quarks Daily

by Priya Malhotra

Nov 25, 20256 min read

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Ethics Bowling - 3 Quarks Daily

by Tim Sommers

Nov 25, 20254 min read

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Seeing the Wendigo - 3 Quarks Daily

by Christopher Hall

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How Things Happen and Happy Thanksgiving - 3 Quarks Daily

by Nils Peterson

Nov 26, 20255 min read

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The Many Sides of a Triangle - 3 Quarks Daily

by Jonathan KujawaA few months ago, here at 3QD, we learned that even the humble number two has the ability to lead us to mathematical riches. It is the base

Nov 27, 20257 min read

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If artificial sentience were to emerge today, we would almost certainly fail to notice it - 3 Quarks Daily

by Nicholas MullallyImagine a thought experiment: An engineer, preparing to decommission a large language model (LLM), has unwittingly revealed enough during

Nov 27, 202510 min read

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The Hidden Lightbulb: Sketching Apophatic Literature - 3 Quarks Daily

by Ed Simon

Nov 28, 202515 min read

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Rereading R. K. Narayan in a Digital Duniya - 3 Quarks Daily

by Claire Chambers

Nov 28, 20256 min read

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An Essay on Multimorbidity - 3 Quarks Daily

by Hari Balasubramanian

Nov 28, 202511 min read

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Techno-Realism; or, Here Is Your Jetpack - 3 Quarks Daily

by Kyle MunkittrickYou are scrolling the news, half awake sipping your coffee, when you see the announcement. A startup, not quite unknown but not familiar,

Nov 30, 20257 min read

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Conversation with a Centrist - 3 Quarks Daily

by Christopher Horner

Nov 30, 20257 min read

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Things Fall Apart: Herbert Hoover And The Risks Of Certitude - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

Dec 1, 202514 min read

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Today, Typewriters Are For Art - 3 Quarks Daily

by Mark R. DeLong"People tell me that I could do much better," David McCullough said in an interview included in California Typewriter, a documentary about

Dec 2, 202516 min read

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Self and No Self - 3 Quarks Daily

by Herbert HarrisMany years ago, I began a meditation practice, sparked by curiosity and vague, middle-aged worries about stress and blood pressure. To my

Dec 2, 20256 min read