http://www.metafilter.com/tags/bertrandrussell Posts tagged with 'bertrandrussell' at MetaFilter. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:30:17 -0800 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:30:17 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/82283/He%2Dlaughed%2Dlike%2Dan%2Dirresponsible%2Dfoetus <b>Parts <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OziPcicgmbw">1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TedtMmUq8ig">2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7I9pgqiLo0">3</a> of a 1959 interview</b> with <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/">philosopher</a>, <a href="http://fair-use.org/bertrand-russell/the-principles-of-mathematics/">mathematician</a> and <a href="http://www.russfound.org">peace campaigner</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell">Bertrand</a> <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/513124/Bertrand-Russell">Russell</a> (1872-1970). <a href="http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/brtexts.html">Works</a> and <a href="http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/">pictures</a> online include <a href="http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/br-suffrage.html">Anti-suffragist Anxieties</a>, <a href="http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html">Why I am not a Christian</a>, the <a href="http://www.pugwash.org/about/manifesto.htm">Russell-Einstein Manifesto</a> against nuclear weapons and the book <a href="http://russell.cool.ne.jp/beginner/COH-TEXT.HTM">The Conquest of Happiness</a>. Russell is also known for his pithy <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell">quotes</a>, his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot">teapot</a> and was the subject of poem <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/198/9.html">Mr Apollinax</a> by T.S. Eliot. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82283 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:30:17 -0800 BertrandRussell interview mathematics peace philosophy polymath war youtube TheophileEscargot http://www.metafilter.com/36649/There%2Dis%2Dmuch%2Dpleasure%2Dto%2Dbe%2Dgained%2Dfrom%2Duseless%2Dknowledge%2DBertrand%2DRussell <a href="http://www.defectiveyeti.com/images/trickmules.jpg">"Sam Loyd's 'Trick Donkeys'</a> is one of the most elegant puzzles ever invented... print out the page and cut the figure into three parts along the solid lines. Now, position the strip onto the other two pieces so that it looks like each jockey is riding a donkey. Folding is not allowed. Don't give up -- the solution is really quite simple!" tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.36649 Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:13:52 -0800 bertrandrussell games paper puzzles samloyd trickdonkeys limitedpie