English professor at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi.
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1st of 2 on Morien, Feirefiz & the "Black" Knight in Arthurian lit. It's a long one. Would love feedback from anyone w/ exp in medieval representations of race or anyone interested: @Medievalists @medievalpoc @blackberryeater @erik_kaars @medievalhistory? youtube.com/watch?v=Ike1oAHq…
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"Since you didn't get away with blowing up Parliament, we're going to let you off with a stern warning."
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This is a really interesting observation. It's easy to mistake effortful thought for critical thought. Spending a lot of time thinking without considering if you might be wrong is counterproductive b/c it *feels* like you're putting in effort to seek the truth but simply aren't
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2020: a referendum on which invisible things you believe in and who has the authority to tell you what to do about it.
Eppur si muovo
Today was a very, very odd day
I testified before @senatehomeland
They held a hearing on hydroxychloroquine.
Yup, HCQ
In the middle of the worst surge of pandemic
HCQ
It was clear how our information architecture shapes questions of science and medicine of COVID
A thread
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“Things were bad for me, so they should stay bad for everyone else” is not a good argument against debt cancellation - student, medical, or otherwise. #CancelStudentDebt
Conservatives value personal stories more than liberals do when evaluating scientific evidence theconversation.com/conserva… I think *psychological* conservatism of this sort can probably be found across party lines, but psychological liberalism only on one side and only a subset.
For rhetoric classes, a good counterpoint to JSMill and @JonHaidt: The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation nyti.ms/34YZQjQ
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Senator Mike Lee’s insistence that the U.S. is not a democracy echoes the fact that many on the right view voting as an existential threat.
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Vote for science and civilization. Both are under direct existential threat from the worst primate instinct: epistemic authoritarianism.
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How information overload is making us all dumb and dumber.
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There are currently more confirmed cases of corona virus in the White House than in New Zealand, Taiwan & Vietnam COMBINED. #SoMuchWinning
