Monthly Archives: March 2024

The amoral universe

(featured image: Hubble ESA/Flickr CC BY 2.0) Is morality, literally, just a figment of our imagination? Every parent will, sooner or later, experience clashes between their beliefs, and those of their children. The first such clash in my life happened … Continue reading

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Don’t confuse the facts with the truth

(featured image via DALL-E 3) We should be careful not to take our interpretation of the facts as the objective, unequivocal truth. A good 20 years ago, Frédéric Brochet, then a PhD student oenology (the study of wine), was cataloguing … Continue reading

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Overwhelmed by wide horizons

Featured image Martin Heigan/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 Thanks to technology, we have access to stuff beyond our wildest imaginations, but that can also make our life more difficult. How can we best handle these super wide horizons? In … Continue reading

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Right things

What is right for me is not necessarily right for thee – an everyday story of moral dilemmas One of my guilty pleasures – well, one that I am happy to share with the world – is that I am … Continue reading

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Factual misinformation

(featured image via Dall-E 3) We can be misled by false information, but we can also be misled by information that is the 100% unadulterated truth. And we ourselves are doing the misleading… These days, there is a lot of … Continue reading

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