language
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What we understand as up and down is relative to our location. Locations that, themselves, are relative to each other—it is all relative.
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We have a blinkered view of bias and its role in society. Here’s why we need to get over ourselves and start making good in the world.
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We want the rules of grammar to be fixed. They are not. Like everything in life, our desire for certainty is compromised by life itself.
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We love to say that politics and religion doesn’t mix, but religion is political by definition. They can’t be separated.
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We talk about polarization like its something that happens to us. Rather than the byproduct of what we’re actually doing.
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The idea of spontaneous multi-lingual speech amazes us. I worry that we miss the point was understanding not speaking.