Tobin Miller Shearer’s Advice on Talking to Whites About Racism
Lately I’ve been working through Mennonite resources on racism. While the movement has always been about peacemaking since its 15th century beginning, there has been…
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Ideas, thoughts, resources, and stubs (ideas in development).
Oops! He Fell Into a Black Whole
The other day, Etcetera and I were talking about black holes (again). He was talking about the effects at the event horizon and how something…
Them Scapegoats!
It’s a pretty easy thing to blame your problems on some one else. After all, who wants to think that they’re responsible for all their…
Zoning In and Zoning Out
We’re working on creating a real estate and property system for New City in SparkQuest on the E-land SparkQuest STF map in Minecraft right now.…
Brain Hacking: Procrastination
We’ve had a lot of talk about procrastination: the problem of low-energy and putting things off. It seems to show up as at least two…
Where Are The Standard Deviants?
For the next couple of Science Tuesdays, I’d like to explore standard deviation — an important concept in statistics, and therefore an important idea for…
A Tax On The Brain
Salty or tough characters like to quote the adage: “There are only two things certain in life: death and taxes.” Notice that these two inevitable…
When There’s No Synthesis
I had a conversation with my Dad about politics. Although in actuality we agree on more than we disagree, the topic has been a hard…
Talking to “Them”: The Dialectic
What if I was wearing a MAGA hat right now? You know, those red hats worn by the supporters of Donald Trump as part of…