Richard Smith

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So where does Dec 25 come in? Dec 25 was the day Romans recognized the winter solstice (See Pliny, Natural History 18.220–221). Notice this wasn't the actual winter solstice in antiquity, just the traditional day (Julian calendar fail). Notice also it is 9 months after Mar 25.

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Maslow, updated.

“Today the world has lost a Torah luminary and intellectual giant who had a transformative global impact.” The Chief reacts to the awful news of the passing of Rabbi Lord Sacks.

Anyone know the justification for Ofqual dropping 1/4 of the History GCSE for 2021 but Religious Studies still 100% examined? @PearsonEdexcel now reduced IGCSE History but not RS. @TheISRSA #REteachers

@sacred_podcast @MyriamFrancoisC As anticipated this was superb. Thank you both for taking the time to record this conversation. The final ‘take away point’ of @MyriamFrancoisC is so valuable. I hope to do it some justice in the classroom.

'One of the symptoms of whiteness is believing your identity is somehow neutral and irrelevant to the conversation.' In this episode @MyriamFrancoisC speaks about her experiences as a white woman in a headscarf: soundcloud.com/thesacredpodca…

Implicit pattern recognition is linked to religious experience @thetimes, hence God is fake news. #WilliamJames called this "medical materialism", confusing organic components with cause, and quietly ignoring that science is a pattern recognising industry. thetimes.co.uk/article/join-t…

theoryofknowledge.net @Critivicate without doubt has offered the best support for any course I teach. Thanks Michael!

What is the Hagia Sophia? youtu.be/2i0i4xIngFo via @YouTube

Two Bristol climbing legends and a very important conversation. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

@Lisa_0Connor Indeed I do. So important I named my cat after that book! She is after all divine play.

Here’s James Ladyman’s essay about the value of philosophy and the apparently gratuitous closing of @UWEPhilosophy @UWEBristol. #saveUWEPhilosophy cdbu.org.uk/what-is-a-univ…

Updating IB Philosophy student handbook and pleased to add the ‘maxim for essay success’ of one of our @BGSBristol lovely U6th leavers - “It’s all about how you use what you choose to defend your views!”

TOK, philosophy and cat games. Purrrfect article. “This is a concrete illustration of the relevance of philosophy, to questions which seem to belong to science.” iai.tv/articles/can-c…

Have you watched me and William Lane Craig debating the premises of the kalam cosmological argument yet? It's one of my favourite conversations ever! youtube.com/watch?v=eOfVBq…

@MyriamFrancoisC @TheosElizabeth @sacred_podcast If this happens it will hands down be the best thing to result from my Twitter account. 😁🙏

@TheosElizabeth @philos_ethics @sacred_podcast Gladly! Would be an honour. Pls dm or email me x

Have been listening to excellent @MyriamFrancoisC podcast. Any likelihood of @TheosElizabeth interview on the @sacred_podcast ?Seems to be a similar drive toward how best to talk across social divides.

We need to talk about whiteness, with Angela Saini by myriam francois via #soundcloud soundcloud.com/myriam-francoi…