Recent links added to the Heap…

1. Season 5 of the UnMute Podcast–“The Quarantine Edition”–just dropped — 10 new episodes featuring Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside) in conversation with different philosophers
2. “Drillosophy”: a combination of drill (a type of hip hop music) and philosophy — “In each of six episodes, they take a philosophical concept and break it down using metaphors thrown up in some of drill and UK rap’s most popular songs”
3. “If you are interested in grappling with hard questions and examining diverse views while considering your own beliefs, philosophy might be the right major for you” — what U.S. News & World Report thinks readers “need to know about becoming a philosophy major”
4. What To Do About Now? is a new group blog on applied political philosophy and political theory — initiated by Hannah McHugh (UCL), it aims to give early career political theorists a platform for their more publicly-minded work
5. “People become misinformed because they tend to trust those they identify with” — philosophers Cailin O’Connor & James Owen Weatherall (UC Irvine) explain with the peculiar example of hydroxychloroquine
6. “The informal and untraceable talk, the socializing, the comradery, and the sheer serendipity that results from being in the space space and time together…” — videoconferenced academic events lack these, so despite their alleged advantages, Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) is not a fan
7. “Her drawings are imaginative, often elliptical responses to philosophical writings” — the philosophical art of Maria Bussmann

Mini-Heap posts appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the ever-growing collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. Discussion welcome.

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