This entry unleashes “Masters in Amsterdam”, by Mihkel Kama and Salvador Mascarenhas. In this age of random information, we’ll do our best to channel here and comment on bits that earn our attention and test our competences. We will address topics related to our respective research areas, as well as issues in science, society, politics and culture.
At the moment, we are Master’s students at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands — Salvador at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, and Mihkel at the Anton Pannekoek Institute of Astrophysics. We are citizens of the glorious republics of Portugal and Estonia, respectively, facts that may every now and then play a role in the topics we address.
We encourage everyone to share their thoughts in the comments section, kindly requesting that comments to a given post conform to its spirit and style. Relevant additions and corrections to our posts are of course more than appreciated.
It may well happen that our thoughts turn out to be so dull as to disappoint our readers and embarrass our friends, but at least rest assured we will never post pictures of our cats or publish essays on the meaninglessness of life.Mihkel and Salvador
2 comments:
The last object of your description caught my fancy. I do hope you shall not attempt an accurate essay on the meaning of life, as it would fail as surely as the plethora of examples from history, reducing the effort to meaninglessness - only to accurately describe the human condition, yet never action. I guess the meaninglessness of the meaning of life is now as apparent as the meaningful nature of writing about meaninglessness or the necessity of meaning in human action.
Hola dudes,
Sounds promising and I look forward to reading your posts.
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