Haiti v Scotland is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries occupy the smaller, mountainous part of a major island shared with a larger neighbour.
Haiti has western Hispaniola. Scotland has northern Great Britain.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
Great 20th legal philosophers with their fathers' occupations in brackets
HLA Hart (tailor and furrier)
Ronald Dworkin (motor products dispenser)
Joseph Raz (electrician)
I am looking forward to this at Pusey House in Oxford in a few days! I will be discussing how the late Alasdair MacIntyre is what I think of as the *Last of the Utopians* or a participant in Thomas More's tradition of radical humanist imaginings of elsewhere/else-when societies
"Placing an analysis of Church teaching on slavery in a document about artificial intelligence, though, does suggest something about how Leo XIV understands human dignity. It exists within history, as do all of us and as does a pilgrim Church."
https://t.co/R3scLpBKCx
The Turnverein (1907)
Indianapolis, IN
Turnverein were gymnastics associations and social clubs founded by German immigrants, starting in Cincinnati in 1848 and spreading across the Midwest.
Ephraim Radner writes that we have grown cold to ecumenism, even to the point that we kill each other and we think it's just politics.
https://t.co/8cNZhq2nu6
People have been writing me asking if Rabbis should be permitted to use AI to write sermons. The clear answer is no, they should steal from other rabbis, as our forefathers have always done. Amen.
Please arrive at your appointment 15 minutes early so you can fill out the same forms you filled out online and then be asked the same questions when the doctor actually sees you.
Seeing so many schools and higher-ed institutions capitulate on AI simply reveals that many professional educators have no understanding (or at least no conviction) that the whole point of higher education is the formation of thinkers, not the production of content.
One extremely funny thing that happened this semester is that Harvard students cheated using their university-provided ChatGPT subscriptions, and were caught because the university had access to their accounts