January 2021 Dates of Interest
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Keeping Your Humour … While Those About You are Losing Theirs
Doug Skeggs Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can. — Claire Scovell LaZebnik A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. — Laura Ingalls Wilder What a year this has been. We’ve seen a global pandemic and political insanity that can only…
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Keith’s Conundrums: Spot the Unusual
Keith Douglas I am going to save last month’s “answers” for the February issue. I have a reason for this that will (possibly) become apparent here. Today we have a trivia challenge. But there’s a twist to the questions! Or rather, to each one. Then, collectively, you might be able to see something unusual. That…
#WhiteWednesday: We’ve Power by Weave, Linen, and Women
Scott Douglas Jacobsen Women around the world have been increasingly vocal, alongside many men, and rightfully so, about the injustices they face. Often, it comes tied to some theocratic leader or political ideology bent on suppression of equal rights for women. All the while giving airy, arid, and empty statements about the equality of women,…
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In Memoriam: Judith Jarvis Thompson
Mark Maharaj The philosopher Judith Jarvis Thompson died on November 20, 2020. She was 91. Known for her work on a variety of issues in normative ethics, applied ethics, meta-ethics, and metaphysics, Thompson was professor emerita at MIT. She was the originator of the “Violinist” thought experiment used to demonstrate the concept of bodily autonomy…