Recent links added to the Heap…

• Is pandemic panic pushing us even faster to a “Black Mirror” government-tech domination of our lives? — until recently “public pushback was surging”, but then came COVID-19 (via Hili Razinsky)
• Teaching philosophy online: what worked and what didn’t — Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin) shares his experiences
• “What if I told you that as a black man living in white America I feel as if I am already dead?” — George Yancy (Emory) on the “black reality white friend can’t see” (NYT)
• A defense of Karl Popper against “confused”, “bizarre”, and “strange” criticisms — Jonathan Livengood (Illinois) responds to the recent critique of Popper by Michael Huemer (Colorado)
• The top 20 universities will grow, numbers 20-50 may be ok, “but numbers 50 to 1,000 go out of business or become a shadow of themselves” — Scott Galloway (NYU) on what the pandemic portends for higher education
• ASMR isn’t necessarily sexual, but it is a kind of pornography: intimacy pornography — Rachel Elizabeth Fraser (Oxford) on the meaning, aesthetics, and ethics of “autonomous sensory meridian response”
• The philosopher who is challenging the fundamentals of evolutionary psychology — Subrena Smith (New Hampshire) is interviewed at Gizmodo

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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