March 1st, 2014 was a day of mourning. Vigils, organized by self-advocates and allies, took place across the country to mourn the loss of people with disabilities murdered by their […]
By David Bryce Yaden, Rutgers U. Assistant Humanist Chaplain, In 1956, the United States of America officially changed its national motto from E Pluribus Unum, or “Out of Many, One,” […]
Exclusionary education is becoming more entrenched than ever. As governments across the nation slash budgets and continuously decrease funding for public education we begin to see its effects. Not only is the […]
By Jimmy Palmer, Rutgers University On Thursday January 23rd The Daily Targum, official newspaper to Rutgers New Brunswick students, published in its opinion section a commentary on the new Rutgers […]
By John Artenstein, Quinnipiac University In the last decades, a new form of consciousness has taken contemporary thinking and life by storm. It is a curious, adept, and seemingly limitless […]
Getting There The road from Cancun to Chichen Itza—home of El Castillo, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World—is not made of dirt; it is not dilapidated, pot-hole ridden, […]
By Professor Frank Popper Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rutgers University In winter’s darkness I’ve been listening to conservative talk radio, which New York’s WABC, 770 AM, ably represents. You […]
If you were one of the 120,000 people on Facebook who “liked” the first article in Joshua Keating’s Slate series, “If It Happened There”, then you probably found the satire on foreign affairs […]
The polls are in, historians, statisticians, and ancient scroll all agree: under the leadership of Genghis Khan, the Mongolian army killed around 40 million people, an estimated 10% of the […]
By Jimmy Goodrich, Rutgers University What obligations do we have to the worst off among us? Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, recently lectured […]
Applied Sentience 