CALL ME MAGGIE

Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • What Will Education Look Like in a More Open Future?

    Technology and rapidly evolving student needs are influencing how schools can think about trust, autonomy and collaboration. Source: ww2.kqed.org Continue reading

  • Philosophers at large in the world

    …for the most part… philosophers aren’t deploying their firm grasp of Kierkegaard in their private-sector work. Rather, it’s the skills that philosophers are trained in—critical thinking, clear writing, quick learning—that translate well to life outside of academia. As Zachary Ernst, a… Continue reading

  • Philosophy Department Fights For Survival | Daily Nous

    I’m the chair of the only remaining Department of Philosophy at a public university in the state of Louisiana. (LSU has a department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, which is the only other public university in the state where a… Continue reading

    Philosophy Department Fights For Survival | Daily Nous

  • Tax (Break) Day – Truthout

    Listening to what corporate America has to say about their taxes, one might draw the conclusion that the US tax system places an unequal burden on big business. However, that’s simply not the case: Over the last 50 years, the… Continue reading

  • 3quarksdaily: The Spectre of History: Thoughts on an Islamic Reformation

    The powerless, freed from the responsibility of consequences, can wallow in their misery, create imaginary histories, and nurture delusions of promised grandeur. In imposing their new order, the European powers took away both the capacity of governance from Muslim rulers… Continue reading

  • Oscillation – Berfrois

    We propose a pragmatic romanticism unhindered by ideological anchorage. Thus, metamodernism shall be defined as the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in pursuit of a plurality of disparate… Continue reading

  • To Blend or Not to Blend – Matt Perger

    I don’t believe the majority of coffee-drinking customers are quite ready to appreciate and understand why roasters have suddenly dropped blends from their offering. Blends still hold a special place in customer’s hearts; they’re the flag-bearer for the business; the… Continue reading

  • How the US Became an Oligarchy

    According to a new study from Princeton University, American democracy no longer exists. Source: www.truth-out.org Democracy schmocracy Continue reading

  • O, Chicago …

    Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: This is a difference between the passive be and the active being…. For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House The… Continue reading

  • in the relative calm of clean and ordered Singapore

    Originally posted on johnpoetflanagan: may 1992 Here a month in the relative calm of clean and ordered Singapore and i’m enjoying it. If i looked for a starker contrast to the bustle of Bangkok i couldn’t find a better one… Continue reading

  • Ellinor, The Year of the Goat, and Quantum Entanglement

    Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: From the moment I awake, I lie silently and listen to the calling of the universe to determine the type of day ahead, because every day has its own personality. Some mornings… Continue reading

    Ellinor, The Year of the Goat, and Quantum Entanglement

  • Dreaming, Fearing, and Second Chances

    These are the two Americas that [Anand] Giridharadas sees in this story: “An America that still dreams, strives, imagines that tomorrow can build on today — and an America that has resigned to fate, buckled under stress and chaos, lowered… Continue reading

    Dreaming, Fearing, and Second Chances

  • Everything Begins with Now

    Originally posted on All About Being Human (award-free zone): Oh joy joy joy joy joy! “Why are you joyful?”  You ask. “That is an excellent question!”  I respond. Is it because I’m finally hugging Old Man Winter good bye for… Continue reading

  • Is that so? Maybe.

    Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769) travelled extensively to learn from other masters. When he was 32 years old, he returned to the Shoin-ji, the temple in his home town of Hara, in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture. Here he devoted himself to teaching… Continue reading

    Is that so? Maybe.

  • Atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiment: Helium atoms put in same quantum state, start appearing in same place

    Quantum mechanics has so many counterintuitive features that it seems possible to learn a new one every month. Today’s lesson involves particles that are set into the same quantum state and effectively become indistinguishable. Once they are indistinguishable, they start… Continue reading

  • New instrument dates old skeleton before ‘Lucy’; ‘Little Foot’ 3.67 million years old

    A skeleton named Little Foot is among the oldest hominid skeletons ever dated at 3.67 million years old, according to an advanced dating method. Little Foot is a rare, nearly complete skeleton of Australopithecus first discovered 21 years ago in… Continue reading

  • Trappist Monks Are Trying to Save Venezuela’s Dying Coffee Industry

    Up until the ban on coffee exports, Monasterio Trapense used to ship 150 kilos of coffee per week to be sold in the US—and even got away with it for a while after the ban, but it was short-lived. After… Continue reading

  • ▶ Denton Coffee Culture – YouTube

    Proud to be a part of coffee’s community of service in Denton and Denton County. Prouder to know so many of the great folks in these videos. As the specialty coffee industry continues to grow, quality coffee has become more… Continue reading

    ▶ Denton Coffee Culture – YouTube