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  • A Permanent Slump? | Paul Krugman

    …what if the world we’ve been living in for the past five years is the new normal? What if depression-like conditions are on track to persist, not for another year or two, but for decades? You might imagine that speculations… Continue reading

    A Permanent Slump? | Paul Krugman
  • America’s angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy – Salon.com

    On the extreme Right, by contrast, race is a proxy for class. Among the white supremacists, when they speak of race consciousness, defending white people, protesting for equal rights for white people, they actually don’t mean all white people. They… Continue reading

    America’s angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy – Salon.com
  • Adjunct. The modern indentured servant.

    Originally posted on modern disappointment.: By Sinnamon Rohl I’m an adjunct. That means that when I am in the classroom with you, I’m your professor. But when I am in the company of other faculty or administration in the educational… Continue reading

  • Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR

    As an existential philosopher in the lineage of Karl Jaspers, I concur with the notion that being a leader is about listening and bringing folks to compromise. When we act like there is one problem with one solution, we very… Continue reading

    Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR
  • Featured Author: Tracy James Jones

    Originally posted on Sharon C. Williams-Author: Tracy James Jones from Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas, is a blogger, book reviewer, indie author, former actor & artist who writes multicultural romantic drama. Literary portfolio includes four published novels, a collection of short… Continue reading

  • MENTAL HEALTH CARE – WHO NEEDS IT?

    Originally posted on Sheri Lawrence de Grom: Mental Health Care – Who Needs It? The Fourth House   By – Sheri de Grom I couldn’t believe what I’d just heard. It couldn’t be possible. Yet when I looked up and… Continue reading

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  • The Semantic Apocalypse

    Originally posted on Speculative Heresy: Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the Semantic Apocalypse”. (Held at Canada’s premier interdisciplinary department: The University… Continue reading

  • Brain Drain and Brain Gain

    In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories —… Continue reading

    Brain Drain and Brain Gain
  • New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa

    At the age of 24 Dawn was preparing to move to Colorado with her boyfriend when she was overtaken by a manic episode which included severe anxiety, hallucinations, and paranoia. She recalls driving around a hospital parking lot debating whether… Continue reading

    New eBook: Bridging the Bipolar Gap by Dawn Figueroa