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- The impossibility of spacetime singularities, the bizarre behaviour of black holes, and dark matter are all puzzling cosmological problems. | iai.tv/articles/new... Phillip B. Levin argues that a new model where black holes have no singularity can solve all of these problems. #philsci ⚛️ 🧪
- “A signature feature of quantum mysticism is its misappropriation of physics terminology in a wider, every-day context,” argues physicist Philip Moriarty. | iai.tv/articles/qua... How has quantum-inspired mystical claims has led to the rise of pseudoscience and misinformation. #philsci ⚛️ 🧪
- We have come to think depression is a medical problem that has a medical solution. | iai.tv/video/the-mi... Rose Cartwright reveals the failures of the medical model of mental health and proposes radical new methods for healing including psychedelics and emotional catharsis. #medsky #psychsky
- The idea of a world government is often associated with the risk of global tyranny, but could it be more desirable than we initially assume? | iai.tv/articles/the... Mathias Koenig-Archibugi argues that a single world government may be more plausible and desirable. #polsky
- Pedro Tabenksy draws on theorists of rebellion Fanon and Camus, to warn that all rebels risk becoming the tyrants that they claim to resist if they adopt a cold, utilitarian ethics. | iai.tv/articles/all... Rebellion must be tempered by regret, even when violence is necessary. #philsky
