Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The Tribe Official TRAILER (2015)
Ukrainian director Grigoriy Fesenko’s “The Tribe”–about a deaf teenager struggling to fit into the boarding school system–happens in sign language with no subtitles. Looks brilliant. Continue reading
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Buddhism and Psychedelic Methods
Austin Hill Shaw examines the nature of creativity, cosmology and psychedelic communion. Shaw practices in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, “taking refuge in the Buddhist path” since 2002. Rather than seeing the use of psychedelic substances as antithetical to a Buddhist… Continue reading
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From “Remediation” to “No Excuses”: The Indignity of Deficit Thinking | the becoming radical
While apologists for Southern heritage remain unable or unwilling to confront the blatant racism of the Confederacy, many today remain nearly universal in our inability or unwillingness to recognize and then confront racism, classism, and sexism in the form of deficit… Continue reading
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International Peace Scholarship for Emmanuela Opoku
Emmanuela Opoku, my wonderful colleague and fellow in @UNT_Philosophy‘s PhD program, has been awarded a $5,000 International Peace Scholarship from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Opoku, a native of Ghana, came to North Texas in the 2014 fall semester to further her… Continue reading
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Further down into the microcosm
Emilie Ringe stands next to the new Titan Themis gives researchers the ability to create three-dimensional structural reconstructions and carry out electric field mapping of subnanoscale materials. © Fair use for educational purposes Rice University, renowned for nanoscale science, has… Continue reading
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Project Vox
Project Vox concerns the next major scholarly development: the acknowledgement that a number of early modern women have been unjustly ignored in our narratives. From Lady Masham, Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway in England to Émilie Du Châtelet in France,… Continue reading
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Interrupting Pride for Black Lives
Black, queer, trans, criminalized – the young people who put together Sunday’s event are living on the front lines of struggle in this country. They are to our times what the early trailblazers of the gay rights movement were to… Continue reading
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SCOTUS: Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
Still waiting for the mandate of when this will go into effect but, as Justice Anthony Kennedy said, ” The constitution promises liberty to all within its reach.” Expect folks like Gov. Abbott of Texas and Gov. Jindal of Louisiana… Continue reading
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Hacking Education Begins with Good Habits and Practical Knowledge
I often talk with youth (here and here are some examples) about how what they are doing in high school and/or university may not be giving them everything they need. There are lot of ways, however, that the system can… Continue reading
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Irony Incarcerated
Below is a picture of a product made by unpaid Texas prison inmates who work for extra privileges (like time off of their sentence, the ability to buy goodies at the commissary, exercise in the yard, etc.). They get rooming,… Continue reading
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Justice Elena Kagan’s Pro–Spider-Man Ruling
A suit involving an inventor trying to retain royalty payments for a web slinging glove (shoots silly string actually) after the patent ran out on the toy. Marvel didn’t want to pay royalties. Inventor wanted them to keep coming… Kagan… Continue reading
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‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman
@aoscott reviews Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age. the present and its technological lures and discontents, thankfully, are not really [Susan Neiman‘s] concern, any more than the jeremiad is her chosen form; she comes across as a patient pedagogue… Continue reading
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Revisionist Betrayal
We owe it to ourselves and to our descendants to be always open to reconsidering history. But there is a difference between taking back up an account to make it more rigorous and adopting a wholesale lie that makes us… Continue reading
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For Consideration: Sales Pitching
Ideas are not offered for slow consideration anymore so much as they are offered for quick sale. That thought came to me this morning while watching a documentary. I don’t really think it matters what the film series was… this was… Continue reading
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The racism of millennials
The danger in invoking the myth of the presupposed racial tolerance of millennials (and subsequent generations) is that it works to absolve today’s society of actively confronting and undoing the damage of the legacy of slavery, segregation and institutionalized racism.… Continue reading
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Pope Francis and Integral Ecology | Becoming Integral
The new encyclical by Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On the Care of our Common Home, contains many references to “integral ecology,” including an entire chapter by that title. It’s relatively clear that Francis is working with the integral ecology proposed… Continue reading
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