Society, law and economic necessity all conspire to make work a near-essential requirement. Would it be better if this w Source: disinfo.com Continue reading

At the suggestion of appalled supporters, Bonnie Weinstein finally compiled a selection of choice missives into a book, To the Far Right Christian Hater: You can be a good speller or a hater, but you can’t be both. I was… Continue reading

Source: freakoutnation.com Good heavens.  Continue reading

Source: www.hastac.org Raise your hand. Show you are here.  Continue reading

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Abstract The manner in which reality is perceived and conceptualized has profound implications for many levels of human existence. Source: www.mundusimaginalis.org Continue reading

The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to just about any line of work Source: www.salon.com   Because it delivers real skills, philosophy doesn’t go out of fashion the way the vague, trendy… Continue reading

Originally posted on coromandal: Mitra Tabrizian The most dangerous fundamentalism today is banking. Nevertheless, there are other fundamentalisms that harm us, as there always will be: religious, political, racial etc. Salman Rushdie has a beef with the religious variety; he wrote… Continue reading

The great majority of languages borrowed their word for coffee. Unlike the words for, say, milk or water, which developed within a given language family over thousands of years, the word for coffee hopped from one language to another, and… Continue reading

In the decade since the National Academy of Sciences reported on the alarming difficulty scientists were facing in setting their own research directions—and declared “the time for action is now”—it’s only gotten harder for scientific upstarts to nab major grants, according to a perspective by… Continue reading

Due to the public outcry, however, none of the sites were excavated. It was an impasse: Genghis Khan’s tomb is archaeologically important; knowing its location is important for protecting it from illegal mining in the area. At the same time,… Continue reading

there are, at this point, numerous books testifying to the dismal state of American public education in the communities, primarily of color, that have been marginalized and abandoned by our increasingly austere system. And beyond the exposés of the moral… Continue reading