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13 votes
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I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
29 votes -
Social constructs: An introduction
13 votes -
You are not a visual learner: The biggest myth in education
15 votes -
Shaping the artificial intelligence revolution in philosophy
2 votes -
Climbing the carillon bell tower in Queen's Park, Loughborough and taking a behind the scenes peek at how it all works
3 votes -
Tyranny, slavery and Columbia U - Interview with North Korea defector Yeonmi Park
4 votes -
Are plants animals like any other?
5 votes -
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
12 votes -
How much should we trust technology?
7 votes -
When orcs were real - The ancient struggle for homo sapiens to rule the Earth
6 votes -
Screenshot, save, share, shame: Making sense of new media through screenshots and public shame by Frances Corry
4 votes -
What everyone gets wrong about "critical race theory"
6 votes -
The ‘great danger’ of technology according to Martin Heidegger
3 votes -
Playful Participatory Culture: Learning from Reddit, by Adrienne Massanari
2 votes -
How many continents are there? | Map Men
7 votes -
An essay on nothing
4 votes -
Affidavit: FBI feared Pennsylvania would seize fabled gold
6 votes -
Change in the implied meaning of "masked men"
Has the sentence "the masked men entered the store" changed meaning post the pandemic. I think it feels less ominous than perhaps it used to. Now the words could imply "responsible men that wear...
Has the sentence "the masked men entered the store" changed meaning post the pandemic. I think it feels less ominous than perhaps it used to. Now the words could imply "responsible men that wear masks in accordance with guidelines entered a store" where it would previously almost certainly imply "robbers entered the store". Since I'm not a native speaker I'm curious if this is just in my head or a more general thing? Are there other similar statements that has change?
11 votes -
2021 United States teacher shortage survey overview
6 votes -
History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
6 votes -
Was Wilhelm Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock
1 vote -
The Selfish Fallacy
11 votes -
Scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
7 votes -
Documentary recommendation: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
I recently started an excellent series on Wondrium that is a PBS documentary from 1988: Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth and I figured this series would be of interest to the Tildes crowd. In...
I recently started an excellent series on Wondrium that is a PBS documentary from 1988: Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth and I figured this series would be of interest to the Tildes crowd. In this series, Joseph Campbell sits down for a discussion with Bill Moyers discussing the way mythology has influenced our lives from the day-to-day to religion, and how these common motifs present themselves throughout our history and culture. In addition, there is a lot of examples and comparisons of these tropes within the Star Wars original trilogy that is discussed.
It is a very eye-opening and thought-provoking series that I would really love to have a discussion about if others here find it interesting as well.
Transcripts of the individual episodes can be found on this site:
I personally prefer listening/watching as there are a lot of visual examples that are used during the discussion that helps make the topic more clear.
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Why we find rainforests in unexpected places: An overview of all the temperate rainforests in the world
3 votes -
The private language argument
3 votes -
Can you be a good billionaire?
15 votes -
Arguing: Good and bad faith
4 votes -
Truth and Native American epistemology
5 votes -
Updated BP Texas City animation on the 15th anniversary of the explosion
9 votes -
What pro wrestling can teach us about the quest for truth
3 votes -
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period
11 votes -
Why we turn off autocaps and only write in lowercase online
12 votes -
We've been telling the Alamo story wrong for nearly 200 years. Now it's time to correct the record
20 votes -
Tomorrow is the 75th anniversary of the first mobile phone call
6 votes -
Battle of Savo Island 1942: America's worst naval defeat
3 votes -
Surprising shared word etymologies
10 votes -
The transatlantic element: Psychoanalysis, exile, circulation of ideas and institutionalization between Spain and Argentina
5 votes -
Avenging Varus and the loss at Teutoburg Forest - Battle of the Long Bridges (15 AD)
6 votes -
This is the only possible world
4 votes -
Why Confederate lies live on
10 votes -
Hollywood loved Sammy Davis Jr. until he dated a white movie star
9 votes -
A first lesson in meta-rationality
7 votes -
Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
10 votes -
Uyghur tribunal
6 votes -
The principle of explosion
6 votes -
Statues of historical figures are lazy, ugly and distort history. From Cecil Rhodes to Rosa Parks, let’s get rid of them all.
10 votes -
What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed
12 votes -
WW2 animated: Western Front, 1944-1945. Part 1
3 votes