by Elizabeth Stark | Sep 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
This is how it happened: I was listening to an interview Tim Ferris did with Maria Popova of Brainpickings.org, and in passing they referred to “the semi-colon” quote by Kurt Vonnegut, in the context of a conversation Tim Ferris had with a friend who has a semi-colon...
by Elizabeth Stark | Sep 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Daily Dose: Feminist Voices for the Green New Deal has a mission: we are going to post something every single weekday that will move the needle on social justice and climate crisis–on the Green New Deal. We began March 2, 2020 (check out our early posts!)...
by Elizabeth Stark | Sep 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Feeling torn about the election? Get some serious reassurance that the difference between fascism and centrism is a difference already equal to hundreds of thousands of lives this year. I watched this video this week thinking I’d just check out the beginning, and...
by Elizabeth Stark | Aug 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
You’ve probably heard the idea that a frog that gets dropped in a pot of boiling water will jump out immediately, while a frog that is placed in a pan of cool water heating on a stove will stay as the water continues to get hotter and hotter, gradually adjusting its...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Aug 6, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Over five thousand years ago, from about 3500 BCE to about 1700 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization rooted in the Indus river valley spread out over 280,000 square miles, nearly the size of California and Nevada put together. This civilization covered parts of...
by Elizabeth Stark | Aug 4, 2020 | Opinion, Uncategorized
In an interview, I heard Ira Glass say, every episode of This American Life has a particular theme, but in fact, every episode has the same theme: I thought this would happen, and instead this happened. I will talk about this tomorrow evening at a free class Ellen...
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