Monthly Archives: September 2019

HUMANITY: “The Pale Blue Dot” / Carl Sagan ☮

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Find the following transcript on, “The Folly of Human Conceits,” blog:

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. Continue reading →

FAT SHAMING: “James Corden Responds to Bill Maher’s Fat Shaming Take” / The Late Late Show with James Corden ☮

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After seeing a segment on “Real Time with Bill Maher” addressing obesity rates in the United States, in which Bill’s thesis is that fat shaming needs to make a comeback, James Corden felt compelled to respond with a different perspective. Simply put, fat shaming hasn’t gone anywhere and is perhaps the worst approach to a complex issue for people across the globe.

US HISTORY: “When White Supremacists Overthrew a Government” / Vox ☮

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In November 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a mob of 2,000 white men expelled black and white political leaders, destroyed the property of the city’s black residents, and killed dozens–if not hundreds–of people. How did such a turn of events change the course of the city? For decades, the story of this violence was buried, while the perpetrators were cast as heroes. Yet its impacts resonate across the state to this day.