This Year’s Equal Pay Day April 8th of this year was Equal Pay Day. This rather unpleasant “holiday”, which originated in 1996, symbolizes the amount of additional days women must […]
By Barry Klassel Humanist Chaplain at Rutgers University A couple of months ago, the Humanist Community at Rutgers was invited to be part of a panel discussion on the topic of […]
Philosophy is the oldest study in the world, arguably beginning when Plato established the Academy in 428 BCE. Simultaneously, it is arguably now the most disparaged, where every few months […]
Thanks Primitive Screwheads for picking Applied Sentience’s small (but growing) blog and group of writers! It took us quite a good few months, but we’ve finally scrounged up a bunch […]
This article is a semi-continuation of my previous post regarding the sordid state of Rutgers University’s ‘Liberal Arts Math’ curriculum. Since people seemed to like it, I thought I’d switch […]
Humans are so contradictory. Yesterday, I looked out the window of the building I work in, one of the tallest buildings in the Philadelphia skyline, and I felt a tremendous […]
OK… OK… Hear me out on this one: Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an alien, or at very least working for an alien race known as the Mi-go who are described […]
Introductory-level mathematics education is a festering wart on this country’s nose. More locally, Rutgers—a university which touts some of the best researchers in applied mathematics, as well as a top-twenty […]
Last week, undergraduate philosophers from across North America made the pilgrimage to Princeton for the first annual undergraduate philosophy conference held as a partnership between Princeton University and Rutgers University. […]
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 […]
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