Just a few quick links while we celebrate/mourn the various sporting and political results from the last few days.

* Sally Haslanger has posted a bunch of “information concerning women and minorities in philosophy”:https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/SGRP/Materials+concerning+women+and+minorities+in+philosophy at SGRP. Some of it will be familiar from previous discussions, but it is good to have it in one place.
* Congratulations to “Carrie and Daniel”:http://longwordsbotherme.blogspot.com/2007/05/backwards-explanation-and-real.html for getting their paper on “backwards explanation”:http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/Jenkins/BackwardsExplanation.pdf accepted to BSPC.
* I meant to promote “this competition”:http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2007/ChineseMaths.asp concerning the relative quality of maths education in Britain and China. But it seems the deadline has passed. In any case, here is the “BBC story”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6589301.stm with a very nice illustration at the end of the differences between the two. This is relevant to philosophy, because it is hard to use mathematical examples (some of which are quite crucial) given the poor state of western mathematical education.