critiquing ideology
Whenever we arrive in an unfamiliar environment, what is the first thing we tend to do? We don’t look around at the surrounding landscape, perhaps the sun, the stars, a quiet old man sitting on a stoop across the street casually observing our instinctive 21st century actions. We open the respective map application on our […]
Read More…Why are pigeons in every city that I have ever been to? Did they develop with modernity and the process of urbanization? Or are they, as an old friend of mine once believed, just well disguised robotic spying mechanisms? Well, after a bit of research, I discovered a couple interesting insights into the rise of this […]
Read More…Just think about this headline for a second (recognizing that you are in front of a screen reading it): Most Adults Spend More Time on Their Digital Devices Than They Think. Or this one from 2014: Britons spend more time on tech than asleep, study suggests. The statistics are staggering yet relatable. The 2014 article maintains […]
Read More…Water is a miraculous substance because it can carry great amounts of energy and heat. It conducts heat to and from a living system and can conform itself to any shape. The use of water to restore health is commonly referred to as hydrotherapy. Hydrotherapy can be performed in many ways, but essentially it causes […]
Read More…“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own” -Aldous Huxley Nearly 50 million children around the world are fleeing war or extreme poverty. Many […]
Read More…Imagine being smart enough that you not only have your own wikipedia page, but your predictions on the future have their own wikipedia page. Now that’s the dream. As well as being an author, computer scientist and inventor, Google’s technical director Ray Kurzweil can be considered an optimistic futurist. Handily for a futurist, he’s very […]
Read More…“Emma Gonzalez Is Responsible for the Loudest Silence in the History of US Social Protest” Thousands of students from all across the United States came together today to participate in the March For Our Lives rallies. One of the most powerful and heart-wrenching moments occurred during Emma Gonzalez’s speech, when she paused for 6 minutes […]
Read More…When looking at a Rembrandt from the normative distance that people usually adhere to in a museum, one can see the pronounced strokes and thick globs of paint. Yet when one takes a couple steps back, sometimes even all the way to the other end of the gallery – at just the right distance, as though […]
Read More…“The philosopher will not find it any easier than anyone else to alter his attitudes and way of life” “At the very least, though, one can make a start. The philosopher who does so will have to sacrifice some of the benefits of the consumer society, but he can find compensation in the satisfaction […]
Read More…“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible” – Albert Einstein. If we’re just a bunch of atoms, a combination of elements formed from supernovas, can we ever arrive at an adequate explanation for consciousness?
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The Junction 