I had the opportunity to attend the Beyond The Bars Criminal Justice Conference at Columbia University this weekend. The weekend event kicked off Friday night with a lecture by Angela Davis and Marc Lamont Hill. Saturday, was a host of panels that were both informative and inspiring. I truly enjoyed the “Alternatives to Punishment Paradigm” […]
This is pretty amazing. The People at Shared Worlds created a project called Hand In Hand. People working on the project asked fiction writers to scribble writing advice on their hands. This is what they came up with.
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Filmmaker Kevin R. Breen created a video called “Richard Dawkins Dies” which is “a delightfully South-Park-esque confrontation between Dawkins and God as the two engage in a smack-down at the heart of the creationism vs. evolution quasi-debate”, according to BrainPickings. Now the video is South-Park-esque, so that means it has profanity and could be perceived
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I have a new Op-Ed in the Huffington post this week called “The Politics of Emotional Dismissal”. Here’s an excerpt below. Check out the full article here and leave a comment on the site if you can. Let me preface: This is not a man-bashing reflection. What I am arguing is that anger has its
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Its Sunday and that means I am doing nothing but watching NetFlix. However, while being lazy I think I just saw one of the best documentaries with the best messages Ive seen in a while. I do not want to give it away here. The film is called Kumare. You can check out the trailer
A lot of us hate to be criticized. No one likes to be told that their idea sucks or they are not living up to their potential, that they are not doing what they are suppose to, or they are not as good as they thought they were. Criticism can hurt and scar you if
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** I was given permission by my student to retell the following story. So in my intro to philosophy course at LIU we just finished wrappng up personal identity. For a few sections we compared physicalism (which says that we are only a body) and dualism (which believes we are made up of a body
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Writing is hard work. Editing is even harder. Thick skin is required. Check out the process of writing and editing in Gifs.
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They say, “you can take the woman out of philosophy but you cant take philosophy out of the woman.” (I dont know who said this, but someone said it). Philosophers are not only obsessed with questions but also with clarity and when and where our obsessions comes out is not restricted to spaces of academia
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I’m always striving to be a better writer. There are so many thoughts in my head and the challenge is to get them out in a concise, clear manner and not to tackle too much at a time. I also struggle with being creative at the risk of not conforming to the standards of philosophical
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