by Carl Howard | Dec 12, 2012 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Race, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
A follow-up from the last post, I’ve recently had a change of mind about the idea of “first world problems”. For those not familiar, this is a hash tag on Twitter and a general internet trope that you add on to a complaint you make. It’s meant to show that you...
by Carl Howard | Dec 8, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Race, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
t’s recently come up in a Facebook discussion that I don’t think the idea of a “Third World” has much merit. I’ve posted on this briefly a few years ago but I hope I’ve learnt a thing or two since then! Just to get things clear, there are definitions of First/Third...
by Carl Howard | Feb 1, 2010 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Classic texts are often portrayed as timeless, as something that can be related to beyond the specific context their author wrote them in. Shakespeare is the best example, with many an English teacher swearing that the portrayals of, say, despair, grief and betrayal...
