Weekly Filet #78: A Cause Caused by Its Effect. And more.
Friday is for food for thought: Weekly Filet #78 is ready for you. Read it here or over at Das Magazin.
This week's top recommendation
Causality has always fascinated me. I think I can follow David Hume when he argues that we shouldn't assume a causal relation between two events just because they appear to always follow each other. But then I come across this editon of the brilliant philosophy podcast «Philosophy Bites» in which Huw Price argues in favor of backward causation. The idea being that something can be caused by something else that happened after that. It's like time-travelling causation. I can see your head start spinning from here, so let's jump right into the 15-minute-podcast.
→ Huw Price on Backward Causation (Philosophy Bites)
Further recommendations
Good read: Canada’s crime rate is dropping as immigration increases. Is there a connection?
→ Arrival of the Fittest (Walrus Magazine)
Biophysicists at Harvard. «How was your day?» – «Oh, just the ordinary stuff. We took a rat apart and rebuilt it as a jellyfish.»
→ Artificial jellyfish built from rat cells (Nature)
A fascinating illustration of prime numbers.
→ El Patrón de los Números Primos (Jason Davies)
Here's the story of one man who was a single shot away from winning gold at the Olympics - and failed miserably. Not once, but twice. He'll try again in London.
→ Dealing With Olympic Failure (The New Yorker)
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