Here’s a great series of audio broadcasts done by CBC radio this winter on the matter of science and how we ought to think about it. Really interesting stuff. Ninjaman recommends episode 5 with Ulrich Beck and Bruno Latour especially.  http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/  

The ol‘ professa, Noam Chomsky, doesn’t really get the credit he deserves. Superficial encounters with his work, either sympathetic or critical, seem to dominate most perspectives of it, and I think there’s an unwarranted “Chomsky-fatigue” simply because they guy has been around so damned long. Regardless, I’ve watched this mean carry on debates in french, […]

A must-have for those that count both the undead and philosophy amongst their interests. “Zombies don’t stop. Zombie’s don’t rest. And yet, zombies are at peace with this ceaselessness. And you can be too.” The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead by Scott Kenemore