Engendering Equality, a blog I have been lucky enough to contribute to recently, posted a link to a fantastic video recently. In a letter to Little Wayne, two young girls confront him about his lyrics bringing women down. It’s yet another well made yet simple video sharing a powerful message. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j-T-FVR0WZw]
Amidst rumours of cancellation and a after a huge wave of panic amongst fans, Fringe delivered yet another fantastic episode; “Concentrate and Try Again” touched upon both the human drama at the heart of Fringe as well as upon the overarching plotline. I loved this episode for many reasons. For one, I always love an… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 12: Concentrate and Ask Again
This latest episode of Fringe drops more hints and clues, and plot twists that indicate that we are again in for a crazy end-of- season ride. For the sake of my poor readers, my editors and I have decided post the review in two parts. The first part is meant to be more plot oriented,… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 11: Reciprocity
The final episode of Fringe before the Christmas hiatus left us hanging, just like such an episode always does. And, true to form, it leaves us hanging both with purely sci-fi related questions as well as questions regarding the human drama at the heart of the show. On her first case back on the right… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 9: Marionette
Ah blogging, how I love you. Not only do you provide me with yet another social space in which I can learn so much, but I get to discover gems such as Engendering Equality, a fantastic blog that promotes discussion around a document prepared by the Institute for Studied in Global Prosperity entitled “Advancing towards… Read More Guest Blogger on Engendering Equality
I feel like I’m cheating a little when it comes to blogging these days; I tend to blog about things other people have either said or written. But then again, isn’t trying to understand the world in large part about listening to others, first trying to understand why, within their own framework, they make sense,… Read More Finding the Truth, one Discussion at a Time
I don’t have any through research nor lots of data to back the following statement up, but it seems to me that one of the reasons for the recent upsurge in prejudices, as expressed in various anti-insert-a-culture-or-religion-here sentiment is intimately linked with fear of the unknown, which, mixed with a liberal dose of misinformation, can… Read More Normalizing “The Other”: The Case of Little Mosque on the Prairie
The morning of my 20th birthday, I woke up thinking: “Thank God, I survived my teenage years.” Finally! The lingering questions that had plagued me for the previous 10 years would somehow fade away, as hitting 20 would enable me to acquire the insight needed to become one of those fulfilled adults whose examples have… Read More Understanding the Nature of Human Nature (or at least, trying very hard to)
After a very long time, I finally got an hour to catch up on my reading. I don’t know if I am just more efficient now at finding good articles, or if their numbers and quality has increased in recent years, but the wealth of empowering pieces that on the one hand sustain my hope… Read More Partying it up online à la Nerd!
Ballads, love songs, the swelling of the music, the catching of the singer’s voice… Awesomeness, wouldn’t you say? Although I really like love songs, I have come to a couple of realizations. One of them is that popular love songs seem almost exclusively to be focused on romantic love; how weird is that, considering that… Read More Silly Love Songs