The Santa Claus we “know” has been tamed down from the earlier versions. Our Santa is not associated with anything unpleasant. Not true of the earlier version of Santa, St. Nicholas Consider this medieval story about St. Nicholas from a play by Henri Gheon called “The Sausage Maker’s Interlude.” A butcher makes a sausage-making-machine, but [...]
Via Daily Dish, I learned of the “Pink and Blue Project” by photographer Jeongmee Yoon.
Here’s his approach:
To make “The Pink and Blue Project” images, I visit the child’s room, where I display and rearrange his/her colored accessories. I ask my models to pose for me with their pink or blue objects, in an effort to [...]
It is often observed that girls do not perform as well as boys in mathematics. This difference is often overstated and it’s cause is often highly debated. Many people have suggested that the basis for this difference is essentially biological.
It is now well established that a society’s attitude toward gender will significantly affect the performance [...]
It’s the political season and there are a lot of bad arguments being made these days. There are plenty of non sequiturs, red herrings, ad hominem attacks and ex hominem attacks. It is the season when we vividly see that there is no such thing as pure reason. Instead, cognition is always infused [...]
I know that pre-written store-bought greeting cards are not the cause of America’s current downfall, but they are a symptom of America’s cultural, moral and educational decline. Really. I know that many of you are thinking that I’m way off base here, but let me give you a few examples based on [...]
