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Forum for Change | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. January 31, 2009 in Faith. I’ve just returned from a day of discussion and networking at the Lowry hosted by the Evangelical Alliance. They’re not as scary as they sound). I met a whole bunch of interesting people from business, media, arts, health, education and politics and we were given the opportunity to think and talk and dream about how we can be involved in changing society for the better. How do we engage with the the society that we are a part of, the. Something that ...
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A Coin Conundrum | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. February 27, 2009 in Uncategorized. Who doesn’t like a brief maths problem now and then? Marcus du Sautoy, writing for The Times Online. Placed this conundrum at the end of his article:. Let’s play a game. I’ll keep tossing a coin until one of the following two outcomes occurs. If heads, heads, tails, appears first then I’ll pay you 20. However, if it’s tails, heads, heads, then you pay me 10. Should you play? Immediately by a tail. All I need is that a tail immediately. Prece...
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The Twitter Experiment Part 4 | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. The Twitter Experiment Part 4. February 19, 2009 in In the News. There’s still plenty of twitter buzz and hype, if you’re looking in the right place. And it doesn’t look like it’s going away quite yet. Principally, the discussion seems to centre around questions about the point, or lack there of, of Twitter. Isn’t it just a distraction? Is it worth while? Paul Bradshawe at the Online Journalism Blog. One comes from the Twitter site itself. 8217; Quite right. Another source of ...
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The Twitter Experiment Part 3 | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. The Twitter Experiment Part 3. February 1, 2009 in Media. The media hype continues. Will it go mainstream? Almost certainly, yes. …This is the sort of service that could go ballistic in a recession. Better is TwitterFox – a small plugin for Forefox that sits in the bottom bar of the browser and brings up new tweets at intervals of your choice. Clearly if Twitter is to work, we need to find ways to ensure that it serves us rather than visa versa. I follow – 8. In the News (16).
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April fools. | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. April 1, 2009 in Uncategorized. Brown’s Conference Speech, Wordled. Did you know… (1). In the News (16). On the web (6). 2008 Manchester Blog Award Winners. Every day I lie a little. Follow The Yellow Brick Road. Travels with my baby. A Free Man in Preston. The Art of Fiction. Follow me on Twitter. An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later. Comments feed for this article. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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The Twitter Experiment Part 2 | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. The Twitter Experiment Part 2. January 30, 2009 in Media. Welcome to the second instalment of my exploration into Twitter. First up, I log onto to the website http:/ www.twitter.com. And get an account. This is as easy as any online sign up could be. What’s more, since Twitter is still quite young I get to use my. Name as a user name – geoffstevenson. That is a bonus. Good so far. But enough of who to follow, what shall I. It feels a bit like speaking out loud to an empty room.
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Brown’s Conference Speech, Wordled | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. Brown’s Conference Speech, Wordled. September 29, 2009 in Uncategorized. Blowing a little dust off this blog with a cheap post. Now back to the thesis…). Brown’s Conference Speech, Wordled. Did you know… (1). In the News (16). On the web (6). 2008 Manchester Blog Award Winners. Every day I lie a little. Follow The Yellow Brick Road. Travels with my baby. A Free Man in Preston. The Art of Fiction. Follow me on Twitter. Comments feed for this article. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Philosophy and Twitter | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. April 29, 2009 in Uncategorized. Well, since I pondered the possibility of combining philosophy and twitter. Someone has gone ahead and done it. They went for ” best Twitter tweet-length philosophical argument”. Ordinary objects are mereological sums. Objects can change parts, so sums can too. (by Mark Steen). Carrie Jenkins announced her winner here. And the full list of awards can be found here. And the full list of entries here. Brown’s Conference Speech, Wordled. Create a ...
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The Lottery Player | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. March 10, 2009 in Uncategorized. At the end of the last post I flippantly mentioned that the Lottery is an easy way to take money from people who are bad at maths. Has recently posted about the poor evaluational abilities of The Lottery Player. In short he claims that they both overvalue and undervalue money:. The lottery player, therefore,. Money in that he thinks it will provide things it cannot possibly provide: happiness, satisfaction, meaning, love. But he also. So she sa...
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Quantifying our ignorance | 40three
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Faith, Philosophy and Life. February 6, 2009 in In the News. A memorable piece of science reporting from the BBC:. While researchers often come up with overall estimates of the likelihood of intelligent life in the universe, it is a process fraught with guesswork; recent guesses put the number anywhere between a million and less than one. Which, for your entertainment, is followed by. Indeed. Read the full post here. Brown’s Conference Speech, Wordled. Did you know… (1). In the News (16). On the web (6).
