Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Bridge is a partnership game, and it takes thought to find your best match. There are some bridge teams known for absolute greatness. I’m sure that you can already name a couple; the Four Horsemen, the Dallas Aces… But there are also others that didn’t work as well, such as the eventual and notorious Bridge…

I’ve come to notice that fellow bridgeurs often share a love for good fiction, too. Bridge represents mysteries played out with 13-card hands. Deduction, reasoning, calculating, and available evidence are all things that matter to the match. Couldn’t the same thing apply to the mystery novel, procedural stories, and horror fiction? This week, I’ve been…

During a recent AskMeAnything session on Reddit, I was surprised to find out that Bill Gates has never played a round of Mortal Kombat when a user asked about his favourite characters. I don’t know why I was surprised. It just seemed odd to me that nobody would have challenged Gates in all his time.…