Meditations on Listening in the Internet Age
I should probably preface this post by explaining that I am a terrible listener. Sometimes when I am trying to listen to someone I end up talking a whole bunch in order to explain that I am listening,...
View ArticleI was a Voluntourist
In an article that started trending recently, “The Problem with Little White Girls“, blogger Pippa Biddle shares about her experience doing short term aid in Tanzania. While her group of private school...
View ArticleFame Day: Carly Fleischmann, Giving a Voice to Autism
This is Carly Fleischmann: According to an article written by her father, Arthur Fleischmann, Carly was diagnosed with autism, developmental delay, and oral-motor apraxia (“a neurological condition...
View ArticleBC Girl in a Québécois World
Guess where I am right now? That’s right, Quebec! (Sorry, you don’t get a prize because I already gave you the answer in the title of the post). Look how far away I am from home!! Those of you who...
View ArticlePassing Post-Modernism
It’s 2015, readers, and what better way to start off the year that’s just beginning than by railing on an idea that need to end? Yup, we’re talking Postmodernism here. Not too long ago, I wrote an...
View ArticleLanguage as a Product of Cultural Evolution [Or Why Chimpanzees Can’t Talk...
This week I finished The Domestication of Language: Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal, a book whose subject matter should be self-evident. Shortly afterwards I was given the...
View Article2015’s Cultural Battleground – Evan’s Account
EDITOR’S NOTE: We end this year by each taking a look back and picking our five best posts, explaining both their importance to us and to the world we currently live in. Clicking the banner images...
View Article“Kimmy Goes to a Play” as a Conversation Between Tina Fey and Asian American...
The culture war is a conversation. While it is ultimately a conflict, more often than not this takes the form of ideas and criticism being slung back and forth across the trenches. To be heard is a...
View ArticleListening, Communication, and Police Brutality
It’s been a little over a month since the shootings of Alton Sterling, Phil Castile, and the police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, and I still don’t have the words to describe my emotions. I can...
View ArticleOne of the Reasons Our Guest Writer Left Facebook: Not-Quite-A-Counterpoint...
We, and I speak for both Gordon and Kat when I say this, don’t often reference our guest posts, as much as we appreciate them. A large factor may be because any responses or rebuttals from the writers...
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