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M.C. Escher image, untitled Twisted Truths I just learned about a bill that will allow Florida schools to restrict how faculty teach American history in primary and secondary schools. The news report notes Governor Ron DeSantis says “woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and our institutions.” What is “woke ideology” and what does he mean by “our history?” I checked…

Cows have the right of way

As we wind through the narrow roads in a northern India, we occasionally see a cow alongside the car.

Cows have the right of way in India.

I wouldn’t be surprised if cows in other countries pray that when they die they go to India.

Cow heaven.

Yesterday we took a stroll by a river and were met by a family of bonnet macaque monkeys (see image).

The monkeys look like…

Robin Wall Kimmerer: "The Fortress, the River and the Garden: New Metaphors for Knowledge Symbiosis"

Veröffentlicht am 03.10.2016

Call Out the Lies

  Artwork by Nicola Jennings of The Guardian Resist Time to call out the lies. You can still be gracious. But there’s no need to tolerate stupidity in the face of bigotry, misogyny and dishonesty. So: write, text, tweet, and follow the folks whose aim is to halt the threats to democracy and pluralism. Resist. Watch Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah and John Oliver. Support Planned Parenthood, the…

How Science makes us Smarter

Feeling Rotten, Part 3 Science makes us smarter I mourn the loss of integrity when shenanigans from high-ranking folks we elected make headlines. What happened to grace and goodness? I’m embarrassed to learn that Republicans voted to gut ethics standards from our nation’s core governing bodies. And they made the decision behind closed doors, in the evening hours, on a holiday, in secret. After…

High gloss won’t restore the sheen on the warty toad

Standard Oil’s John D. Rockefeller and the planet POLITICAL NEWS: Part 3 (Earlier this week I wrote that the comb-over candidate’s spinmeisters are redoubling their efforts to curb the candidate’s runaway tongue by having him stick to a carefully scripted playbook. Today’s New York Times confirms the prediction. The first headline you see announces the candidate is trying a new tactic: “Sticking…

POLITICAL NEWS: Part 2 of 3

Lipstick on a pig? A toad?  (My last blog, Stuck on the Tar Baby, takes a look at what it means in the worlds of journalism and public-relations to frame $2 billion in “free” press coverage in today’s presidential campaign. Today I muse about recent PR efforts to harness the comb-over candidate’s tongue).  Bluster & blunder With voting deadlines bearing down on all comers, journalists observe…