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What the Theory?: Watch Short Introductions to Postmodernism, Semiotics, Phenomenology, Marxist Literary Criticism and More

Theory. The word alone can intimidate, and it can especially intimidate those of us outside the academic humanities. The rigor and complexity of scientific theory is forbidding enough, but cultural theory, with its thickets of multivalent meaning and thinkers with their cultishly devoted and territorial followings, has surely made many a hopeful learner turn back […]

What the Theory?: Watch Short Introductions…

Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it

Source: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/autism-greta-thunberg-speech…

Donald Trump spent Saturday retweeting far-right personalities. Then he told them they’re right.

Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/4/18529468/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-ban-far-right…

Two-Queen Tag Team May Have Preceded King Tut

If the great (and not-so-great) pharaohs were alive today, they might object to the fact that Tutankhamun gets all of the fame, the best museum exhibits and a song by Steve Martin just because he lived fast, died young and no one looted his tomb. Well, get ready to add two more. A Canadian Egyptologist… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/05/two-queen-tag-team-may-have-preceded-king-tut/…

Mainstream Media Now Calling for the Arrest of “Antivaxxers”

Matt Agorist – The Washington Post published an article this week that called for rounding up “antivaxxers” and throwing them in jail. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/05/03/mainstream-media-now-calling-for-the-arrest-of-antivaxxers/…

Genetic variants may put some athletes at higher risk of sudden death

People with one copy of a sickle cell gene are thought to have no health issues, but other gene variants may place carriers at a higher risk of sudden collapse Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201652-genetic-variants-may-put-some-athletes-at-higher-risk-of-sudden-death/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Inside the haunted doll markets of eBay and Etsy

Source: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/3/18525659/haunted-doll-buy-ebay-etsy-annabelle-childs-play…

The Last Duel Took Place in France in 1967, and It’s Caught on Film

Another man insults your honor, leaving you no choice but to challenge him to a highly formalized fight to the death: in the 21st century, the very idea strikes us as almost incomprehensibly of the past. And dueling is indeed dead, at least in all the lands that historically had the most enthusiasm for it, […]

The Last Duel Took Place in…

When American Financiers and Business Leaders Plotted to Overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt and Install a Fascist Government in the U.S. (1933)

Economist and columnist Paul Krugman recently wrote about a current nominee for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors who called cities like Cincinnati and Cleveland “armpits of America” to laughs from an audience of business leaders. This same nominee has made headlines for saying “capitalism is a lot more important than democracy” and calling the 16th […]

When American Financiers and Business Leaders…