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Hitchhiking to Krakow

Saturday, the fifteenth of March, UCU TripCo organised a hitchhiking competition in which twenty-one teams consisting of two or three people would attempt to arrive in Krakow, Poland first, completing an assignment along the way in Berlin. Representing the Cold Room, Flavie and Rick participated in the competition with their team 'the Birdplanes', writing down the story of their ...

Philosophy

Collective Moral Responsibility

What does it mean to say X Corporation is morally responsible? Is that to say the company as a separate entity, is morally responsible, or are we simply referring to some people [a,b,c] as being morally responsible within a corporation? Often times, we say X Corporation is evil without actually clarifying exactly who we are ascribing moral responsibility to. This ...

Opinion

Responsibility and the State

In the episode 'Society' of the Ricky Gervais Show (S3, E10), a very interesting discussion on personal responsibility comes up. In the conversation, Karl questions "how far we [should] take all this stuff of safety gear, slowing down, and wearing bright clothes at night; it's just too much". At this point, he is obviously still being Karl, and unknowingly advocating ...

Opinion

Online influence a crime?

Recently, a French judge in the city of Bordeaux ruled in favour of a restaurant owner who was unhappy with the negative online attention his bussiness was receiving due to a very critical review by a French food blogger. With ...

Creative

Lines

You press Your pencil down onto the paper, expressing First, a point, a line, until the subtle play of simple strokes, creates the universe before your eyes: The bleeding red The growing green The sparkling blue; Look what you make ...

Opinion

The Politics of Climate Change

Combating Climate Change in the International Community Without a doubt, man-made climate change is the greatest danger the world faces today. Hanging over the entire scope of human civilisation as a universal sword of Damocles, academics around the world are ...

Philosophy

The path of two paths

Know how to function in the system while realising its limitations. To let go, yet to care. To comply with the way of nature, yet to understand and succeed in the constructed. To become master of what is valued, keeping ...

Creative

Beyond

Beyond what lies beyond my sight, now every ending has its end; As darkness carries me some light, and lightness goes where sadness went Beyond the clouds, Beyond the rain, Beyond, in silence we remain Inside my heart, Inside the ...

Opinion

The Danger of Drones

Through substituting a tactic for a strategy, the deaths of innocent civilians have resulted in the growth of the militant organisations that are supposed to be fought. Unfortunately, however, there is no doubt that the use of drones and similar ...

Philosophy

The Stone Mind

Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves. While they were building the fire, ...

Philosophy

The Coherence of the Dao

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao, The name that can be named is not the eternal name"[1] With this introduction of Dao, the Dao De Jing was opened. A book, allegedly written by the ...

Philosophy

On a possible digital apocalypse

Since this topic seems to come up quite often these days, and the knee-jerk reaction seems to be fear -- quite understandably, but perhaps not entirely justifiable --, I wanted to write down some of my thoughts. It is not ...

Creative

Empty words

My mouth ready to speak; fingers ready to type. I want to say much. A lot. Everything. Now. At once. It needs to go. Then I think. One thought. One line. One word. Gone. Nothing able to describe what is ...

Other

Bullshitman: The Trailer (VIDEO)

A great fan-made trailer starring Karl Pilkington as Bullshit Man, featuring amongst others Ricky Gervais and 'Clive Warren'. "I made a storyline for the superhero because he didn't have much of one. This is obviously a joke trailer. Not intended ...

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The Cold Room Blog

It's Februari the 2nd, late in the evening. Sitting in a room, discussing philosophical and societal problems, are Rick and I. This itself was not really an extraordinary situation, as anyone who knows us will readily tell you, but this ...

 

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