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This week on the blog! We are talking Tolkien, particularly his moral vision, by a study in contrasts of 'failures' - and why Celebrimbor falls whereas Boromir 'conquers' (and how Peter Jackson gets this right, but Rings of Power gets it wrong).
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Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien
This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien’s world or adaptations of it, …
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April 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This week on the blog! We are talking Tolkien, particularly his moral vision, by a study in contrasts of 'failures' - and why Celebrimbor falls whereas Boromir 'conquers' (and how Peter Jackson gets this right, but Rings of Power gets it wrong).
acoup.blog/2025/04/18/c...
acoup.blog/2025/04/18/c...
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It's only called category theory if it's from the Bures-sur-Yvette region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling abstract algebra
December 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
It's only called category theory if it's from the Bures-sur-Yvette region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling abstract algebra
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My colleague Amy Greenwald just sent me this talk slide. It's from Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, an *economist*.
We have so won.
(I mean, I have *thoughts* about this content and his course slides, but also… We have so won.)
We have so won.
(I mean, I have *thoughts* about this content and his course slides, but also… We have so won.)
August 14, 2024 at 2:26 PM
My colleague Amy Greenwald just sent me this talk slide. It's from Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, an *economist*.
We have so won.
(I mean, I have *thoughts* about this content and his course slides, but also… We have so won.)
We have so won.
(I mean, I have *thoughts* about this content and his course slides, but also… We have so won.)