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Sunday, December 25, 2016
A History of Philosophy in 81 Video Lectures: From Ancient...
38 Photos That Capture The Unique Beauty Of Barcelona, Spain
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Thursday, December 22, 2016
2 remarkable facts that illustrate solar power’s declining...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016
Canada's New $10 Bill Will Feature Viola Desmond, a Black...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Another startup takes on the strange world of the digital paper tablet | TechCrunch
Another startup takes on the strange world of the digital paper tablet | TechCrunch:
The unsubtly named reMarkable is the latest product to give it a go, launching with what the company calls a “no latency” digital paper. Certainly sounds good. And it looks pretty decent in the video. “No latency” seems like an overstatement. From the looks of it, it’s not quite as instant as drawing on, say, an iPad, but it does quick – particularly when compared with past devices using older tech. How it actually plays out in real world use is another question entirely.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Trump’s Election And The Power Of Fear
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Friday, November 25, 2016
Stoking Fires and Poking Bears
Stoking Fires and Poking Bears:
I am no feminist at 13, at least, I don’t think I am. My conservative Christian school has taught me that abortion is evil, the gays are to be avoided and prayed for, Evolution is a lie created by atheists to test our faith, and that the best kind of woman is the silently supportive one.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming - The New York Times
Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming - The New York Times:
[M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.
At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. …
One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. … All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.
Sunday, November 20, 2016
B.C. tech sector growing so fast it’s hard to measure size...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Extraordinary paper cycling helmet wins James Dyson Award
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
What to Do About Trump? The Same Thing My Grandfather Did in 1930s Vienna – Tablet Magazine
What to Do About Trump? The Same Thing My Grandfather Did in 1930s Vienna – Tablet Magazine:
The only thing that matters now is the simple moral truth: This isn’t right. As long as we never forget that, we can never lose: As grandpa Siegfried knew all too well, those who refuse to gradually put up with the darkness are making a very safe bet; if you’re wrong, there’s no harm, but if you’re right, you win more or less everything.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
What the Hell Just Happened? – Medium
What the Hell Just Happened? – Medium:
Many of us hoped that the internet would increase our interaction with people who didn’t look and think like us. Sadly, it merely offered us the opportunity to create and live in digital silos of homogenization.
Revenge of the Forgotten Class - ProPublica
Revenge of the Forgotten Class - ProPublica:
This article provides some insight into the Trump win. Important to understand.
Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were playing with fire when they effectively wrote off white workers in the small towns and cities of the Rust Belt.
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Chris Hedges: It’s Worse Than You Think - Truthdig
Chris Hedges: It’s Worse Than You Think - Truthdig
A society in terminal decline often retreats into magical thinking. Reality is too much to bear. It places its faith in the fantastic and impossible promises of a demagogue or charlatan who promises the return of a lost golden age.
Trump and Hillary Clinton in a functioning democracy would have never been presidential nominees. The long and ruthless corporate assault on the working class, the legal system, electoral politics, the mass media, social services, the ecosystem, education and civil liberties in the name of neoliberalism has disemboweled the country. It has left the nation a decayed wreck. We celebrate ignorance. We have replaced political discourse, news, culture and intellectual inquiry with celebrity worship and spectacle.
Friday, November 11, 2016
This Too Won’t Pass – Medium
This Too Won’t Pass – Medium: by Dave Pell
So I called my dad. He’s seen it all. He’s experienced loss, he crawled on his hands and knees from his town to the Polish forest where he survived alone for months, he fought back, he came to America with nothing, he made himself into a remarkably successful real estate developer and philanthropist. After we shared our common disbelief at the choice that Americans made, he told me that he didn't understand how people could have voted for Trump, and then said, “You know, it sort of reminds me of when they voted Hitler into power.”
Thursday, November 10, 2016
After Donald Trump Was Elected President, Aaron Sorkin Wrote This Letter to His Daughter | Vanity Fair
After Donald Trump Was Elected President, Aaron Sorkin Wrote This Letter to His Daughter | Vanity Fair:
The battle isn’t over, it’s just begun. Grandpa fought in World War II and when he came home this country handed him an opportunity to make a great life for his family. I will not hand his granddaughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men. Your tears last night woke me up, and I’ll never go to sleep on you again.
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Presidential Election 2016: An American Tragedy - The New Yorker
Presidential Election 2016: An American Tragedy - The New Yorker:
The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to the first African-American President—a man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit—and witness the inauguration of a con who did little to spurn endorsement by forces of xenophobia and white supremacy. It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.
Donald Trump’s Revolt - The New York Times
Donald Trump’s Revolt - The New York Times:
Here is what we do know: We know Mr. Trump is the most unprepared president-elect in modern history. We know that by words and actions, he has shown himself to be temperamentally unfit to lead a diverse nation of 320 million people. We know he has threatened to prosecute and jail his political opponents, and he has said he would curtail the freedom of the press. We know he lies without compunction.
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