In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you a video. It is a short 6 minutes clip taken from a longer (~45 min) interview on the topic of the value of philosophy. Since this subject is on my mind lately and I have written the first part of my essay on it here, … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Value of Philosophy
Spreading the Word: Continental vs Analytic Philosophy
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you a podcast episode. It is one of BBC's In Our Time podcast. The topic of discussion is the so-called continental-analytic split in philosophy. I learned about the existence of such split only very recently and have been trying to find a good, comprehensive explanation of … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Continental vs Analytic Philosophy
Spreading the Word: Teaming instead of Competing
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you a video. It is a TED talk given by Amy Edmondson, a professor of leadership and management at the Harvard Business School. The video lasts only about 13 minutes and it speaks of the great value and immense importance of teamwork. The talk is not … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Teaming instead of Competing
Spreading the Word: Philosophy of Human Fragility
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you an article that I saw today in my inbox. It spoke to me as it may to many others because it tells about our natural, undeniable, inescapable human fragility. The author offers snippets of wisdom by the philosopher Martha Nussbaum about how to live with … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Philosophy of Human Fragility
Spreading the Word: The Speaking Trees
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you an article about the secret lives of trees. Some of you may already know this but I think it is so amazing that it's worth reminding ourselves - trees communicate to each other, they have their own webs of information flow. There is a series … Continue reading Spreading the Word: The Speaking Trees
Spreading the Word: Interview with Yuval Noah Harari on COVID-19
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you an interview with the famous historian, professor Yuval Noah Harari published on 22.04.2020. In it, professor shares his views on the biggest dangers that face us in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps unexpectedly, he thinks that the virus itself is not our most serious … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Interview with Yuval Noah Harari on COVID-19
Spreading the Word: Seeing the Bigger Picture
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you a TED talk given by a historian, professor David Christian. The talk was given in 2011 but its topic is as relevant as ever, especially in times of increasingly narrow focus and related sense of overall separation. Christian introduces us to a special approach of … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Seeing the Bigger Picture
Spreading the Word: Newton, Self-isolation and Productivity
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you an article by a professor of science Thomas Levenson published recently in The New Yorker. In it, our seemingly increased expectation to be more productive during the time spent in self-isolation is reviewed from an interesting point of view - taking Isaac Newton as an … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Newton, Self-isolation and Productivity
Spreading the Word: 5 Questions about Free Will
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you a video in which various experts discuss the topic of free will. It is an interview that raises 5 questions to several attendees of the Second International Conference on Neuroscience and Free Will that was held 1 year ago (March 2019). For me, the most … Continue reading Spreading the Word: 5 Questions about Free Will
Spreading the Word: Heartfelt Stories of the Nurses from 1918 Influenza Pandemic
In this week's "Spreading the Word", I share with you a very short but moving and heartfelt article that tells about the stories of nurses who helped the sick and the needy in Philadelphia a century ago - during the "great influenza pandemic of 1918". It builds on the first-hand accounts of the nurses compiled … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Heartfelt Stories of the Nurses from 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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