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RIP Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore deserves a spot in the pantheon of great comic actresses like Gracie Allen, Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, and it is for this that she will be most remembered,” said TV historian Robert Thompson of Syracuse University.… Continue reading
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Digital discs flow into the stream
‘“You’ve gone from a world where digital disturbed the scene, but now digital is falling in terms of ownership [of music],” Bakula said. Today, “the digital consumer has switched to streaming.”’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/27/no-mozart-did-not-have-have-2016s-best-selling-cd-what-really-happened-is-even-more-surprising/ Continue reading
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“Coming Apart” – Harper’s Magazine
The term we commonly use for what is happening in the Mission is “gentrification.” But the changes at hand are taking place on a far greater scale, and are connected to a nationwide reorganization of… Continue reading
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The Dangerous Myth That Hillary Clinton Ignored the Working Class – The Atlantic
The more frightening possibility for liberals is that Clinton didn’t lose because the white working class failed to hear her message, but precisely because they did hear it. Trump’s white voters do support the mommy state, but only so long… Continue reading
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Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
Every demagogue needs an enemy. Trump’s was the ruling elite, and his charge was that they were not only failing to solve the greatest problems facing Americans, they were trying to stop anyone from even talking about those problems. “The… Continue reading
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Research links racial resentment with gun ownership
The first step in our analysis was to understand the individual characteristics and political alliances and beliefs that are associated with gun ownership. To do this, we examined data from the 2012 American National Election Studies survey. Using a model… Continue reading
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Lost in Translation: More from a Stranger in Academia
Another great reflection The Becoming Radical on the “loving struggle” to educate via critical pedagogy… Decade four and round two in academia—this time at the university level where, one might assume, things would be easier. First, a flashback. I am… Continue reading
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Leonard Cohen’s New Album is Streaming, And It’s Wonderful — Flavorwire
Thank you NPR! The venerable public broadcaster is streaming Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker as part of its First Listen program, and you can hear it below. You should probably stop whatever you’re doing and listen. The album is,… Continue reading
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Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature – The Washington Post
The musician is the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Source: Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature – The Washington Post Continue reading
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Bold bees on a sugar buzz
But Perry and his colleagues think this is unlikely. The bees’ behavior didn’t speed up overall in response to the sugar solution; they were as slow as ever getting to the blue card that signaled unappealing water. The fact that… Continue reading
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The idea of God
Intro to Philosophy on MWF @ 1:00pm. I asked the youth to read chapter 4 of Way to Wisdom–“The Idea of God.” Mostly I spent time laying the groundwork for a better understanding of what Jaspers means by “faith.” Continue reading
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Hesiod’s Chaos and Laozi’s Way
PHIL 1060, Monday nights, 19 Sep 2016 Grounding ourselves in how the ancient Greeks and Chinese thought about the order of things. First, we discussed the basics of Hesiod’s mythopoeic worldview as a procreative cosmogony. Then, we moved over to… Continue reading
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Mythopoesis
Intro to Philosophy (MWF @ 1pm)–12 Sep 2016 We went through the beginning of Greek philosophy in Hesiod/Homer in their attempt to express a just world order through making-narratives (mythopoesis) of gods and the birth of the cosmos. This led to… Continue reading









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