Tag Archives: #MeToo
On Gaiman and a logic of compassion
That Vulture piece. If you haven’t already, read it but be warned: it’s just as disturbing as everyone is saying it is. One paragraph in particular I found more unsettling than the rest — not because it presents one more … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture
Tagged #MeToo, Amanda Palmer, Klaus Beier, Neil Gaiman, paedophilia, Scarlett Pavlovich, sexual violence, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, therapy
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On Gaiman and a logic of compassion
That Vulture piece. If you haven’t already, read it but be warned: it’s just as disturbing as everyone is saying it is. One paragraph in particular I found more unsettling than the rest — not because it presents one more … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Culture
Tagged #MeToo, Amanda Palmer, Klaus Beier, Neil Gaiman, paedophilia, psychotherapy, sexual violence, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Vulture
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To read or not a bad man’s book
The Life of Science team uploaded the video of their webinar on July 10, about the construct of the genius in science, on YouTube on July 14. Please watch it if you haven’t already. I had also blogged about it. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science
Tagged #MeToo, Enrico Fermi, genius, Geoffrey Marcy, Georges Lemaître, Gita Chadha, Jeffrey Epstein, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, scientific genius, The Life of Science
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Why we need *some* borders between us
Borders are often a bad thing because they create separation that is unconducive for what are generally considered to be socially desirable outcomes. And they’re often instituted to maximise political outcomes, especially of the electoral variety. However, as electoral politics … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Op-eds
Tagged #MeToo, affirmative action, borders, deliberative democracy, democratic society, higher education, human spaceflight, leaky pipeline, privilege, quota system, reservations, SpaceX, status quo
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Another exit from MIT Media Lab
J. Nathan Matias, a newly minted faculty member at Cornell University and a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab, has announced that he will cut all ties with the latter at the end of the academic year over the … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged #MeToo, Boston Globe, Center for Civic Media, CivilServant, Ethan Zuckerman, George Church, Jeffrey Epstein, Joi Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab Disobedience Prize, MIT Media Lab
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