@angelobottone@qoto.org
I teach #philosophy and work as a researcher for the Iona Institute (www.ionainstitute.ie) Abruzzese. #Distributism
Joined Jul 2019
@freemo #introduction
Italian, I teach #philosophy in Dublin (Ireland) and do research for the Iona Institute, a Christian think-tank/advocacy group.
I am interested in #stamps,
#comics, #bioethics, #chesterton.
I waste too much of my time online.
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#Update: One Crazy video footage showing these men in white, having some kind of a small baseball bats swinging at people randomly not even targeting individuals who are protesting, but swinging at everyone they can hit in these #HongKong protests tonight. #extraditionbill
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RT @JackHHazlewood@twitter.com
Meanwhile, absolutely astonishing scenes in Yuen Long, where Triad members clad in white are attacking anyone suspected of being a pro-democracy demonstrator (people wearing black are a target as that’s been the dress code for some marches, hence why triads are all in white).
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JackHHazlewood/status/1152968763387650048
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Here’s the cover and opening pages of Arthur C. Clarke’s 1986 future-telling book July 20, 2019. Published 17 years after the moon landing, it predicts what the world will look like on the event’s 50th anniversary. https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/186424192233/heres-the-cover-and-opening-pages-of-arthur-c /2
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A father knitted his baby’s first year of sleep pattern data into a blanket https://t.co/eox2NEYRfj https://t.co/MJrxgNdQ7K
#thevergebot
Opinion: Ban Facial Recognition Before It's Too Late https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/evangreer/dont-regulate-facial-recognition-ban-it
@DavidBond Qoto is the best.
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Skateboard park opened in #Damascus aiming to improve lives of traumatized children https://quitter.im/attachment/2769290
This is interesting.
Conference announcement: “Philosophy and/of Culinary Traditions”, University of Fribourg (CH), 18-19 September 2019
Speakers:
Matthew Adams (Stanford): “Traditional Foods and Local Landscapes"
Andrea Borghini (Milan): "Gastro-Norms and the Extended Synthesis"
Emily Brady (Texas A&M): “Agriculture and Aesthetics: The Pastoral, the Wild, and the Good”
Marilena Budroni (Sassari): "Biological Aging Wines: From Paradox to Paradigm of Local Productions”
Allen Grieco (Harvard): “The Social politics of food in late medieval/Renaissance Italy”
Barry Smith (London): “Decoding The Marks of Culinary Tradition”
Cain Todd (Lancaster): “Tradition and Style in Wine Making”
Merry White (Boston University): "Ekiben and Meibutsu: the branding of culinary tradition in Japan"
Organised as part of Culinary Mind, research center for the philosophy of food (www.culinarymind.org)
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Pets dressing as humans take Chinese social media by storm
https://hooktube.com/hCpJrKjyyIE
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Zuckerberg admitted that #Facebook solely made a decision to ban some political ads in #Ireland ahead of referendum… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1151187993442603008
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Dunluce Castle (from Irish: Dún Libhse) is a now-ruined medieval castle in Northern #Ireland. It is located on the edge of a basalt.
Breda O’Brien: Child’s voice ignored in #surrogacy debate
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/breda-o-brien-child-s-voice-ignored-in-surrogacy-debate-1.3961648 #ivf #ireland #bioethics
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https://clyp.it/l0hdyax5 via Clyp.It
genetic testing in response to a case that “involved a child born as a result of egg donation who presented with symptoms suggestive of a rare genetic condition.” (link: http://bit.ly/2Sl0Vf6) bit.ly/2Sl0Vf6
Leonard Cohen and how the counter-culture failed children https://ionainstitute.ie/leonard-cohen-and-how-the-counter-culture-failed-children/
A record left by John Henry Newman helped a scholar follow him through his library https://aleteia.org/2019/07/15/a-record-left-by-john-henry-newman-helped-a-scholar-follow-him-through-his-library/ #catholic #theology
I teach #philosophy and work as a researcher for the Iona Institute (www.ionainstitute.ie) Abruzzese. #Distributism
Joined Jul 2019
