by Carl Howard | Jun 23, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Interesting Stuff, Race
Futility Closet is a podcast where the hosts explore historical oddities, trivia and strange tales. I like it a lot, but they have a fairly specific tone, I guess to increase its mass appeal. It’s apolitical, avoids [IMO] controversial topics and since it’s about...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Sex
[CN: Racist imagery below] … … … … … … … … … … … … What does the image above make you think? While there’s a wide range of possible reactions, I predict the vast majority of people would be simultaneously repulsed by the racist imagery while possibly agreeing...
by Carl Howard | Jun 9, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Feminism and LGBT, Language, Sex, Society
I’ve got some breaking news: the internet is here to stay. Discounting major catastrophes, it’s going to become a larger and larger part of the lives of everyone on earth. So it’s time to stop treating it as some novel, completely separate part of human experience....
by Carl Howard | Jun 2, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Ethics, Resources, Food and Environment
[CN: Dehumanisation, crimes against humanity] In addition to the problems intrinsic to homelessness, homeless people often suffer from deliberate harm by others. For example, Social cleansing is the act of targeting people you deem “undesirable” for the...
by Carl Howard | May 19, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Race
In the last few days, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (the living Boston marathon bomber) has been in the news again. Having been convicted on all counts in April, he has just now been sentenced to death by lethal injection. Coming off the recent executions of Andrew Chan and...
by Carl Howard | May 8, 2015 | Charity and Philanthropy, Resources, Food and Environment, Science and Skepticism, Society
In the last decade, we’ve seen an explosion in the media of country-based rankings/indexes that are meant to measure more than “just” traditional economic metrics like GDP. While GDP is an important measure that tells us something about what’s going on in a region,...
