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For our next broadcast, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to get the story behind an infamous 1922 encounter from Jimena @canales.bsky.social, author of "The Physicist & the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time": youtu.be/IRQXam9WV-w #PhilSky

Henri Bergson and the Flow of Time: Roving Philosophical Report

YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

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August 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM

Jimena Canales

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Thank you! www.ec-chronoi.de/post/worksho...

Workshop: “Time Revolution: Contemporary Thought and the Struggle Against Scientific Necessity”

Join us on July 17th and 18th for a workshop organized by Amir Engel

www.ec-chronoi.de

July 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM

Jimena Canales

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What are Science readers enjoying?

May 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Jimena Canales

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#ACLS www.diverseeducation.com/leadership-p...

Humanities Organizations File Lawsuit Against NEH Over Massive Program Cuts

NEH has suspended entire divisions, initiated firing 65 percent of its staff, and halted numerous grant programs in recent weeks.

www.diverseeducation.com

May 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Jimena Canales

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#ACLS news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/d...

DOGE Sued Over Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities

The Department of Government Efficiency has left the National Endowment for the Humanities “a shell” of an agency through its cost-cutting efforts, several grantees said in a new lawsuit Thursday.

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May 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Jimena Canales

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#ACLS www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Three Humanities Organizations Sue NEH Over Its ‘Dismantling’

American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and MLA have sued the NEH over its dismantling, as well as DOGE.

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May 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica

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📢Torna #FemCiència? ✨ @iec.cat
➡️ Estrenem la temporada amb @canales.bsky.social l historiadora de la ciència i membre de la @acls1919.bsky.social ,
Entrevista: schct.iec.cat/entrevista-a...
🔥 Los demonios de la ciencia no se presentan como antítesis de los ángeles, sino que tienen su propio lugar.

April 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM

Jimena Canales

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New book review: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Review | A new study of Einstein explores his search for spiritual meaning

In “I Am a Part of Infinity,” Kieran Fox celebrates Einstein’s attempt to address the emptiness of a disenchanted world.

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March 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Jimena Canales

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Excited to participate: news.stonybrook.edu/university/c...

March 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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Aeon Magazine

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Beyond the equations and experiments, physics has always carried echoes of the divine.

Why physics today stands on the wings of angels and demons | Aeon Essays

When medieval scholars sought to understand the nature of angels, they unwittingly laid the foundations of modern physics

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March 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM

Jimena Canales

@canales.bsky.social

Bravo @clearwing3.bsky.social !

Christine Wenc @clearwing3.bsky.social · Nov 21

“It feels weird being earnest about a history of #TheOnion but there's no way around it:I loved this book with all my heart.Funny BC It's True is a thrilling,inspiring must read for comedy nerds and normals alike.Christine Wenc has managed to write a book worthy of The Onion's greatness.” Simon Rich

Funny Because It's True

Discover the real truth behind the original fake news with this in-depth history of beloved humor publication, The Onion. In 1988, a band of University of Wi...

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March 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM

Jimena Canales

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Tiempo medido y tiempo vivido
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Medido / vivido – Formas Nómadas

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February 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM

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Roger Whitson

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LOVE that book, and your 10th of a Second Book.

January 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM

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Jimena Canales

@canales.bsky.social

Thank you!

Rhys Ting @rhysjamais.bsky.social · Jan 1

Books that rewired my brain in 2024. 💙📚
(Yes, a lot of these were to do with thesis-writing.)

Science:
1. Terrence Deacon - Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter
2. Charles Seife - Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, From Our Brains to Black Holes
3. Amanda Gefter - Trespassing On Einstein’s Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything
4. James Gleick - Chaos: Making A New Science
5. Sara Imari Walker, Paul W.C. Davies, George F.R. Ellis [eds.] - From Matter to Life: Information and Causality
6. Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion: Feeling the Spirit of Enquiry
7. Charles Seife - Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea
8. Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman - A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
9. Laura Tripaldi - Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials
10. Felix Flicker - The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
11. Jimena Canales - Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
12. Paul Davies - The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
13. Jessica Riskin - The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick
14. Jim Baggott - Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
15. James Essinger - Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

Philosophy:
1. Michel Serres & Bruno Latour - Conversations on Science, Culture & Time
2. Massimiliano Simons - Michel Serres & French Philosophy of Science: Materiality, Ecology & Quasi-Objects
3. Keith Ansell-Pearson - Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual
4. Theodor W. Adorno - Introduction to Sociology
5. Chris Watkin - Michel Serres: Figures of Thought
6. William Large - Heidegger’s Being and Time
7. Thomas Flynn - Sartre: A Philosophical Biography
8. Georges Canguilhem - A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings
9. François Dosse - History of Structuralism, Vol 2: the Sign Sets, 1967-Present
10. Kate Kirkpatrick - Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
11. Jean-Paul Vernant - Mythical Thought Among the Greeks
12. Sylvie Courtine-Denamy - Three Women In Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil
13. Jean-François Courtine - Sloterdijk
14. Rocco Gangle - François Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference
15. Miguel de Beistegui - Heidegger & the Political

Nonfiction & Biography:
1. Haing S. Ngor - Surviving the Killing Fields: The Cambodian Odyssey of Haing S. Ngor
2. Binyavanga Wainaina - One Day I Will Write About This Place
3. Darren McGarvey - Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass
4. Erika Fatland - Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
5. Kate Washington - Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
6. Binyavanga Wainaina - How To Write About Africa
7. Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing & Mike Merryman-Lotze [eds.] - Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
8. Judith Tebbutt - A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival
9. Naomi Klein - Doppelganger: A Trip to the Mirror World
10. Agnes Arnold-Foster - Nostalgia: The History of A Dangerous Emotion
11. Patric Gagne - Sociopath: A Memoir

Fiction/Poetry/Classics:
1. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi - Call Me Zebra
2. Paul Valéry - Selected Writings of Paul Valéry
3. Fred Moten - All That Beauty
4. François Rabelais - Gargantua & Pantagruel
5. Patrick McCabe - Poguemahone

January 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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Jimena Canales

@canales.bsky.social

Thank you! Totally recommend

Evan Thompson @evanthompson.bsky.social · Oct 6

Thanks to Jimena Canales for this wonderful blurb for our new book!

January 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Jimena Canales

@canales.bsky.social

Thank you!

Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · Nov 18

Playground - Richard Powers
The Just City - Jo Walton
Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon
What is Compersion? - Marie Thouin
The Physicist and the Philosopher - Jimena Canales

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead

Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social · Nov 14

Repost w/ 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order)

The Map of Bones - Kate Mosse
Scenes From A Tragedy - Carole Hailey
The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig
Profile K - Helen Fields
Le Fay - Sophie Keetch

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead

January 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Rhys Ting

@rhysjamais.bsky.social

Of course! I have gotten so much out of “Bedeviled” and “The Physicist and the Philosopher”, so I should be the one thanking you ☺️

January 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤

@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social

thinking about Jimena Canales, Tenth of a Second; D&G, 1000 Plateaus; Foucault on power&resistance; Barthes' Camera Lucida. Any readings on movements & dynamics in political, musical senses?
@alc0fribas.bsky.social are there perhaps accessible works in history of maths for non-expert mathematicians?

September 8, 2023 at 9:35 PM

Jimena Canales

@canales.bsky.social

Thank you!

Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · Nov 18

Playground - Richard Powers
The Just City - Jo Walton
Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon
What is Compersion? - Marie Thouin
The Physicist and the Philosopher - Jimena Canales

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead

Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social · Nov 14

Repost w/ 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order)

The Map of Bones - Kate Mosse
Scenes From A Tragedy - Carole Hailey
The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig
Profile K - Helen Fields
Le Fay - Sophie Keetch

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead

January 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM

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Roger Whitson

@rogerwhitson.bsky.social

Playground - Richard Powers
The Just City - Jo Walton
Starmaker - Olaf Stapledon
What is Compersion? - Marie Thouin
The Physicist and the Philosopher - Jimena Canales

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead

Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social · Nov 14

Repost w/ 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order)

The Map of Bones - Kate Mosse
Scenes From A Tragedy - Carole Hailey
The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig
Profile K - Helen Fields
Le Fay - Sophie Keetch

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead

Eva @noveldeelights.bsky.social · Nov 14

Repost w/ your 5 favourite reads of this year (in no particular order)

Matt Coyne - Frank & Red
Chris Whitaker - All the Colours of the Dark
Frances White - Voyage of the Damned
Stuart Turton - The Last Murder at the End of the World
Kristin Hannah - The Women

💙📚 #BookSky #BookList #BooksRead

November 18, 2024 at 6:26 PM