“Oh, You Do Know My Language”: Finding the Poetry in Another Tongue
By Christian Hayden Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I met a little boy that resembled my features Nappy afro, gap in his smile…. He looked at me and said, “Kendrick you do know […]
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The Importance of Liberal Arts Literacy: One STEM Major’s Perspective
A few posts ago, I argued for the importance of widespread scientific literacy. I claimed that “scientific literacy—in conjunction with political, mathematical, and other literacies—is a civic responsibility”. For symmetry’s […]
Why I Love Being Uncertain
We, humans, seem to be afraid of uncertainty. Or to put it another way, we yearn for complete certainty. But why? Oddly, science and religion, using their broadest notions, have […]
The Scientist’s Worst Nightmare: A Poem
Captured and shackled by the Devils of Night a tattered rag on my eyelids to cut off the light a spear in my side, crude instructions to walk I try […]
4 Ways Philosophers Answer Children That Keep Asking, “Why?”
“Why is the sky blue?” asks a curious child on the drive to school in the morning. The child’s parent, being a worldly person, happens to know the answer. “Blue […]
Of Evil Demons and Betting on Chicken Bones: Understanding Descartes’ “I Think, Therefore I Am”
In the early 1600s Rene Descartes penned what has become the most oft-quoted catch phrases from epistemology, if not all of philosophy. Compare the phrase to other philosophical catch phrases, […]
Applied Sentience 