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New links…

1. Since 1998, the BBC show “In Our Time” has aired over 150 episodes on philosophy — its creator and longtime host, Melvyn Bragg, is retiring. Check out the show’s Philosophy Episodes
2. On the current model, “all of your undergraduate education is taken in one intensive, all-consuming dose, usually at the end of your teenage years” — “This was always a bizarre idea, I think, but it is becoming stranger and stranger.” Richard Pettigrew on the structure of higher education
3. “Liberalism and animal rights sit uneasily together” — Jonathan Birch explains why, and explores, with the help of J.M. Coetzee, ways of resolving the tension
4. “Being a critical thinker is in high demand, and [there’s] going to become greater demand” — billionaire businessman (and Shark Tank judge) Daniel Lubetzky thinks that in a world with AI, studying philosophy is valuable
5. “Certified AI-Free Skills and Knowledge”: a place to list courses in which “all student work is done in person, offline, and on paper” — created by Marc Champagne
6. “We… are haunted by things we do not know we do not know; and we cannot imagine how drastically those unknowns would alter our lives and our view of the world” — Daniel R. DeNicola on understanding ignorance
7. “Arthur, [now] a changed man… approaches everyone he meets with the shallow pond problem” — The Greatest Possible Good, by Ben Brooks, is a novel in which one of the characters, inspired by Peter Singer, becomes an effective altruist

Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap. Thank you.
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