'Did they suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research, or an adjacent Chinese military programme?
Why did we fund the work of EcoHealth Alliance, which sent researchers into remote Chinese caves to extract novel coronaviruses? Is “gain of function” research a byword for a bioweapons programme? And how did our government stop the spread of such questions on social media?'-questions raised by Thiel in a highly criticized FT op-ed.
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Colorado’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that five elderly elephants don’t have legal standing to sue to leave a local zoo because they’re not human.
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Holy Philadelphia Elgses:
During defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, a senator questioning Hegseth employed a prop sign that misspelled the word military as "miltary."
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Questions
John Locke, argued that every human life had its own rationale, none being created for the use of another. David Hume, wrote that all men are nearly equal “in their mental power and faculties, till cultivated by education.”
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The amount of land owned by the National Park Service alone is larger than Italy. The land owned by the Fish and Wildlife Service is larger than Germany. The land owned by the Forest Service is larger than Britain and Spain combined. The land owned by the Bureau of Land Management is larger than Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and the Philippines combined.
Can the condition of man be resolved by force or circumstance?
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What would happen if your mind "would chew through everything — through our usual self-justifications, through the conceit of inevitability that attaches to our habits and customs, through the thin scaffolding of reason that holds life together. Such a mind would become, as Ulrich once describes himself, “a machine for the relentless devaluation of life”. The only way to avoid this result is to give the mind a task worthy of its powers, by presenting it with the sorts of questions one can, without shyness, think hard about. But that entails some hope of arriving at answers. This is one way to think about writing on philosophy: a safe space for the unfettered operation of mind."--Agnes Callard writing on The Man Without Qualities
The James Beard Award semifinalists have been announced, with three Pittsburgh chefs — all with numerous past nods — and one Pittsburgh restaurant contender in this edition.
In Pittsburgh, the Nordic seafood restaurant Fet-Fisk is a semifinalist in the best new restaurant category.
Apteka, in Bloomfield, and Chengdu Gourmet, in Squirrel Hill, are entrees for the best chef, Mid-Atlantic award.
John Locke, argued that every human life had its own rationale, none being created for the use of another. David Hume, wrote that all men are nearly equal “in their mental power and faculties, till cultivated by education.”
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The amount of land owned by the National Park Service alone is larger than Italy. The land owned by the Fish and Wildlife Service is larger than Germany. The land owned by the Forest Service is larger than Britain and Spain combined. The land owned by the Bureau of Land Management is larger than Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and the Philippines combined.
Why?
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In July Mr. Biden told us that “extreme heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States.” Data actually show that cold kills far more.
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South Koreans now overwhelmingly support developing nuclear weapons, with 73% in favor
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In July Mr. Biden told us that “extreme heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States.” Data actually show that cold kills far more.
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South Koreans now overwhelmingly support developing nuclear weapons, with 73% in favor
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Can the condition of man be resolved by force or circumstance?
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What would happen if your mind "would chew through everything — through our usual self-justifications, through the conceit of inevitability that attaches to our habits and customs, through the thin scaffolding of reason that holds life together. Such a mind would become, as Ulrich once describes himself, “a machine for the relentless devaluation of life”. The only way to avoid this result is to give the mind a task worthy of its powers, by presenting it with the sorts of questions one can, without shyness, think hard about. But that entails some hope of arriving at answers. This is one way to think about writing on philosophy: a safe space for the unfettered operation of mind."--Agnes Callard writing on The Man Without Qualities
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In Pittsburgh, the Nordic seafood restaurant Fet-Fisk is a semifinalist in the best new restaurant category.
Apteka, in Bloomfield, and Chengdu Gourmet, in Squirrel Hill, are entrees for the best chef, Mid-Atlantic award.
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