Misunderstanding is a large category with many tails; what intrigues me are skills for resolution—the transition from a 'missed' understanding of each other to a shared understanding happens almost instantly through routine communication skills, and over time through persistent use of collaborative communication skills.
Misunderstanding is a large category with many tails; what intrigues me are skills for resolution—the transition from a 'missed' understanding of each other to a shared understanding happens almost instantly through routine communication skills, and over time through persistent use of collaborative communication skills.
Steph is seeking a passionate, detail-oriented Research Assistant to support an activism-oriented academic researcher with research and administrative tasks. Details can be found in the flyer below!
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I started collecting the transcript links for the first season of the O’Parables podcast in one place for those who need or want to read them.
If you’re unfamiliar with Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993), it’s a fictional account of surviving societal breakdown which has uncanny relevance to today. The story spans a journey of three … Read more...
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 318-322, read by Steph.
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“A lot of evidence suggests that group loyalty interferes with reason.”
Maidenhair and Watchman trade smirks, like he’s just told them that science
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 232-238, read by Steph.
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Four years at Fortuna College come down to one afternoon: Adam in his spot in the front row, Daniels Auditorium. Professor Rubin Rabinowski at
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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 124.
It’s a miracle,” she tells her students, photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation’s entire cathedral. All the razzmatazz of life on Earth is a
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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 114-115
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In this way, acorn animism turned bit by bit into its offspring, botany. She becomes her father’s star and only pupil for the simple reason that
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A reading from The Overstory, by Richard Powers. 2018, p.86-87.
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He wants to keep heading west. Trouble is, the only strip still west of him feels like going east again. And yet he’s got his used
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A reading from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2013, p. 274-275.
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Umbilicaria is often the victim of its own success. Accumulation is its undoing. Slowly, slowly, the
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