"The twisted tree lives its life, while the right tree ends up in planks."
- Chinese proverbThe Bishop Facing Trump's Fury Has Challenged Him Before. Here's What She Said Last Time
‘I Am Not Going to Apologize’: The Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out
The Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde made headlines this week after she used her sermon on Tuesday at the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration to implore Donald Trump to “have mercy upon” immigrants and LGBTQ+ individuals.
With How We Learn to Be Brave, Bishop Mariann Budde teaches us to respond with clarity and grace even in the toughest times
The Pulitzer prize winning poet W.H. Auden wrote reviews of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Both reviews are below.
Exercise is “the single most potent medical intervention ever known”. “People sleep better. They have better mood. They’re able to breathe better. There are just so many ways in which exercise helps.”
Lifetime risk and projected burden of dementia Nature Medicine
– Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 18, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.
Five highlights from this week: Apps That Are Spying on Your Location; AI-supported spear phishing fools more than 50% of targets; Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), once celebrated as an unbreakable defense, is crumbling under the weight of its outdated technology; NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users – Disable Location Tracking; and Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS.
- What happened in math and the sciences in 2024? — year-end reviews at Quanta
- We need to be asking more about AI tools than whether they “undermine the narrow policies and objectives of institutions of higher learning” — Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin at Times Higher Ed
- The Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit — including, among other things, a sample decolonized epistemology course reading list
- “Analytic philosophers of fiction and deception have thus far not paid much attention to hoaxing… Media scholars have, however, and their findings are not only very interesting…” — they can, argues Merel Semeijn, “help us better understand Santa”
- “Any regime that finds the world’s saturation with injustice so unwelcome news that they wish to ban it in some fashion or another, is itself an expression and entrenchment of a worldview that contributes to the suffering of the young” — Eric Schliesser on the human condition
- “You’re an adult, and you negotiate with your parents the same way you negotiate with other adults” — philosophers Samantha Brennan & Simon Keller are among those consulted by The Atlantic on navigating the holidays
- “Resigned to the Big Tech companies recording our every move, we’ve invited friends, family, and partners to join them in watching us. We’ve begun to celebrate surveillance as a form of intimacy” — Zoë Hitzig on changing norms of privacy
