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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

The Immanent Self: Epigenetics, Modern Liberalism and Spinoza

Originally posted on The Nexus of Epigenetics:
by Shea Robison (@EpigeneticsGuy) (The following is a summary of a talk presented at the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy on January 11, 2016.…

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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

From “Quest for God in the Work of Borges”, Annette U. Flynn

I recently started this book by UCD Lecturer Annette U Flynn. Her biography is worth noting and outlines a winding if not forking path into academia:   I grew up…

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Posted on May 7, 2018

Happy Hedgehog Awareness Week

Happy Hedgehog Awareness week! It is always astonishing to me just how much loss of biodiversity has happened not decades ago when we could plead a certain amount of ignorance…

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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

Scientific enquiry in the early Middle Ages: “Medieval Visions of Modern Science” in Belfast

A Queens University Belfast study on medieval knowledge of astronomy touches on a recurrent theme here: the false myth of the Dark Ages: “The idea for this study came about…

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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

“This Woful Elegy”: the grave of William Costello, “of the parish of Grangemocler”

Visiting the Killamery High cross, I spied just to the south of the cross a striking gravestone, that of “William Costello, of the parish of Grangemocler”. With a little bit…

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Posted on May 6, 2018May 15, 2018

Literary graffiti in Clonmel

The other day I spied this scrawled on a wall in Clonmel: Impressively erudite, and with correct use of apostrophes. Although I did find the need to specify that these…

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Posted on May 5, 2018May 4, 2018

Adam DeVille on Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia”

From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog:   In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…

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Posted on May 5, 2018

Happy #WorldLabyrinthDay 2018

Happy World Labyrinth Day! : Celebrate the 10th Annual World Labyrinth Day on May 5, 2018 and join over 5,000 people taking steps for peace, ‘Walking as One at 1’ in the afternoon.…

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