Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The art of meditation is a practice that’s meant to quiet down the mind and achieve a certain mindset where there’s either a complete absence of thought – or the focus needed to concentrate on a more specific problem until an answer appears out of the mist of thought. Any practitioner of meditation in most…

Marc Smith visits the round robin at the first Major Alt Invitational Just as kibitzers have gotten used to watching eight star-studded teams battle it out in either the Open or the Mixed version of the weekly Alt Invitational event, along comes an even bigger and even better feast. The field for this, the first…

Bridge is a game that can be played online and physically at a bridge club or kitchen table, and it’s one of the only sports that can say it transitions well from one form to the next. During lockdown, thousands of bridge players survived the trying times by turning to online bridge as a means…