Once again, here’s the latest edition of Mini-Heap—10 recent items from the frequently updated Heap of Links. Feel free to discuss. 

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.

• The first of a four-part dialogue on eating meat, from Michael Huemer (Colorado) — see his PhilPapers profile for the other 3 (via David Killoren)
• A provocative and moving short story about a woman who is trying to become a horse — “Horse” by Amy Bonnafons (audio)
• Can physics help solve problems in number theory? — Minhyong Kim thinks “rational solutions are somehow like the trajectory of light”
• “We pay attention to different things when we think about an event than when we experience it” — for instance, sexual harassment, says Jen Zamzow (UCLA, Concordia)
• From Ancient Greece to the contemporary campus: two conception of free speech — Teresa M. Bejan (Oxford) in The Atlantic (via Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin)
• A couple of philosophers agree: this is “scary shit” — Trump and the “propaganda tactics found in the well-worn playbook of how to demonize entire categories of humans”
• “The really remarkable thing about the world isn’t how much things change, but how they achieve stability for any length of time” — John Dupré (Exeter) asks: what are the implications of this for metaphysics?
• Philosophy undergrads at St. Olaf interact with students in Iran — for World Philosophy Day
• Who one really is “deep down” — Joshua Knobe (Yale) on the idea of the “true self”
• “Nearly all the grammar mavens agree that exclamation marks are overused” — but they’re wrong, argues Trip Glazer (Arkansas)!