Month: January 2020

Back on campus: James Hatch on learning from (and with) today’s college students

On By W.W. NortonIn What's College For?9 Comments

NOTE: The article referenced by this blog post, James Hatch's "My Semester with the Snowflakes," has been deleted from Medium, the platform where it originally appeared. It is now available on the author's personal website: https://www.spikesk9fund.org/blog/2020/10/31/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes/. The generational divide is real, captured in "ok, boomer" eyerolls, "Karen" memes, and complaints about those tech-obsessed, lazy millennials. …

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Protecting our past: Elizabeth Silkes on the places that connect us all

On By W.W. NortonIn How Can We Bridge The Differences That Divide Us?3 Comments

There are some places around the world that carry significant meaning, not just for the local community, but for all humankind. These places are the stuff of bucket lists, the wonders of the world, marked for preservation and protection because they stand for our common humanity. Elizabeth Silkes, the Executive Director of the International Coalition …

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Beyond Black Panther: Scott Woods on the promise of Afrofuturism

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“What’s this Afrofuturism I keep hearing about?” Scott Woods responds to this question in his December 27, 2019 essay, “The Decade Afrofuturism Reshaped Science Fiction and the World,” published in LEVEL. Scott Woods argues that Afrofuturism—an artistic, cultural, and political movement—has moved from fringe to mainstream culture in the 2010s, and he imagines what Afrofuturism …

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