Mini-Heap: recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links, collected in groups of 10, here for your perusal and discussion.

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1. “Darwin’s idea that the struggle between species was an engine of creation… undermined transcendentalist assumptions that nature was inherently good” — how Darwin influenced Thoreau
2. Before you teach your students the Monty Hall Problem — teach the Mosteller Hall puzzle
3. The colonialist and utilitarian origins of liberal freedom as non-interference — plus a look at republican freedom as non-domination, in an interview with Philip Pettit (via Nigel Warburton)
4. “Public universities have sunk into economic frailty over the last decades” — who or what can save them?
5. “We are living in a golden age of sexual creativity” — a description of the porn-enabled “erotic renaissance that is… unprecedented in human history” (text only, but explicit)
6. What is a good death? — reflections from Luc Bovens (LSE)
7. The technological wherewithal of a species is not the same thing as intelligence — which is something we should remember in our search for intelligent life
8. Five volumes of Bentham’s correspondence are now available in open access form — here’s the link to the first (via Phil Baker)
9. Philosophy job market mentoring program — time for those interested in receiving and providing mentoring to sign up
10. “By focusing on the lives of creatures like ants, it may be possible to formulate a version of the problem of evil which, in certain ways, is even harder to solve than traditional versions” — Dustin Crummett (Notre Dame) discusses the problem