Hip Hop, Fire, and Fish Meal

...Nolan’s biopic doesn’t really address the physicist’s deep engagement with Hindu philosophy or the ways those ideas relate to the history and future of the nuclear bomb. A Fishy Story...
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Elizabeth Fernandez

Dr. Elizabeth Fernandez is a science communicator, looking at the interface between science and technology in society, and writes on science and society, science and philosophy, astronomy, physics, and geology....
Posterised, Pop art, Grunge effect City Skyline, Buildings, urban, climate change

Climate Justice in the Anthropocene: An Introductory Reading List

...these spaces. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “The Rhetorics of Recognition in Geontopower,” Philosophy & Rhetoric 48, no. 4 (2015): 428–42. “Geontopower”—at the center of climate justice—challenges how we come to understand...
Marguerite Agniel, c. 1928

Religion of the Devil, Philosophy of the Coiled Serpent

...disappointment of Christian leaders. The vogue of yoga, or the “eastern philosophy, the emblem of which is the coiled serpent,” as Daggett described it, brainwashed citizens of educated Western society....
Members of Tjapukai Dance Theatre

Reggae in Australia

...Born in 1960, Brim absorbed both Christian and Buluwai religion and philosophy. As a teenager, he lived with his grandfather, who taught him about the natural world and methods of...
An image from the Wasmuth Portfolio drawn by Marion Mahoney

Marion Mahony Griffin, Prairie School Architect

...the US after a twenty-five-year absence and set to work recording their design philosophy and legacy by writing her autobiography. Titled The Magic of America, the book failed to find...
Margaret Chase Smith being sworn into the House of Representatives on June 10, 1940

Declaration of Conscience: Annotated

...governed by the present ineffective Democratic Administration. Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to...
Kandalama Hotel, Sri Lanka

The Enduring Appeal of Architect Geoffrey Bawa

...people’s money.” Robson and Daswatte assert that this philosophy underscored his approach throughout his life. “Bawa designs each building as if it were for himself: he empathizes with his clients...
Dr. Karl Menninger

Should Punishment Fit the Crime?

“Let the punishment fit the crime.” First articulated by Cicero in De Legibus (On the Laws) in 106 BCE, this concept remains a core principle of criminal justice to this...
From left to right: Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Strong, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk

The Media’s Bottom-Line Problem

In its most dystopian moment, the award-winning HBO drama Succession imagined the ownership of a major media corporation—a fictional rendering of Fox News—using the power of their live election night...