SHARING A MICROBIOME
There’s a lot of talk about microbiome in the news these days. Fecal transplant, anyone? But it seems that one doesn’t have to go to that extreme to share one’s microbiome with another.
Read moreREADING IS ITS OWN REWARD
Virginia Woolf:
Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final?
COURAGE TO WRITE
Hannah Arendt:
The connotation of courage, which we now feel to be an indispensable quality of the hero, is in fact already present in a willingness to act and speak at all, to insert one’s self into the world and begin a story of one’s own.
SOCIAL MEDIA FROM THE QUIET CORNER OF THE ROOM
When I was in college, I worked as a student assistant to a philosophy professor. It was a good gig for me – I was majoring in philosophy and hoped to teach it in college myself some day.
Read moreRIGGING THE ALGORITHM ON TIKTOK
I wrote in my Getting started post that I still have facebook and instagram accounts. I no longer post there, but I’ve not yet deleted them (as much as meta would let me delete them, that is).
Read moreACADEMIC DEPARTMENTALIZATION AND TEACHING MENTALITY
Alfred North Whitehead:
…the increasing departmentalization of universities during the last hundred years, however necessary for administrative purposes, tends to trivialize the mentality of the teaching profession.