My 4 year old explains things.

"The moon goes around the earth. The earth goes around the sun. The sun is in the middle. The dinosaurs stay in the museum. The museum stays in Pittsburgh."



More of Rachel's drawings at Rachel Draws A Lot.

Unimpressive

It's a new video from the Cinema Department at FIMP:



So, if you wanted to have yourself a FIMP film festival, which would last about 4 minutes, you could watch The Tower of Babel and I've Wanted More Than Anything To Have Your Respect, after you have recovered from "Unimpressed".

"baby monitor", FIMP's Book of the Month

Subscribers to FIMP's Book of the Month Club should be watching for "baby monitor" to arrive on their doorsteps soon. This one gets a little grim; I was thinking a lot about Peter Singer's essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" while composing it.

It's an essay worth reading. Boiled down to a single sentence you get:

"If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it."

If that rings a bell, you might want to pay this website a visit.

Stories Philosophers Tell: Trolleys part 2

There is a runaway trolley racing toward five people and you can divert the trolley by colliding another trolley into it, causing both trolleys to derail before they reach the five people. The derailed trolleys will slide down a hill into a man's yard, killing him as he rests in his hammock. Should you derail the trolley?

Stories Philosophers Tell: Trolleys

A runaway trolley is racing toward five people tied to the track. You are on a bridge over the track, and there is a very large man standing next to you whose weight would be enough to stop the train before it reaches the five people. Should you push him off the bridge in front of the train?