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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 March 5, 2017March 5, 2017

Review of “Japanese Rules: Why the Japanese needed football and how they got it” by Sebastian Moffett. UCD AFC programme 2003

Archived here (and now here). I have observed before that I formerly wrote much more on sport than I do now… or am interested in now. Looking at this piece now, it seems…

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Posted on January 20, 2017June 5, 2017

Thor Hanson on cultural perception of time

Living in Africa, I soon came to realise that impatience may be an entirely Western phenomenon. Ugandans approach time from a fundamentally different perspective, not as a commodity to be…

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Posted on June 10, 2016

Two more quotes from “Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible” by E Randolph Richards and Brandon J O’Brien

When the ‘me Generation” became Christians, we baptised this egocentrism. We now felt guilty for spending all our money on ourselves. So we gave it to the church. Mainly to…

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