The links keep piling up! Here’s the latest Mini-Heap: 10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected here for your convenience and numbered for easy discussion.

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1. Settling that Russell thing once and for all (don’t miss the mouseover text)
2. “Two major methodological challenges arise equally in contemporary cosmology and particle physics” — Michela Massimi (Edinburgh) in The Guardian
3. “American public discourse doesn’t give us helpful ways to talk about the dictatorial rule of employers” — Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan) on how we’re governed by our employers (Vox)
4. The homes of German philosophers — some photos
5. Should policy-relevant researchers stay out of politics? — thoughts on academic research, political change, and the connection between them
6. The trailer for the Amartya Sen documentary — and India’s Central Board of Film Certification’s censorship of certain words in it
7. When philosophers invent problems (SMBC)
8. “Is life a worthwhile risk?” — Rivka Weinberg (Scripps) on the environmental factors relevant to that question
9. “The objects it creates might only be virtual, but the challenges it raises are all too real” — the ethics and politics of augmented reality
10. “When you ask why he didn’t show up to your party, he says there are four causes” — if famous philosophers were your friends