'Is truth dead?' reads the cover of Time magazine in April 2017 (Pine, 2017). Culture wars, fake news, alternative facts, post-truth politics, echo chambers, anti-intellectualism and the increasing primacy of lived experience over empirical data define the context of this alarming question (...
Technically, it is not yet spring. We’re in flux between cold winter nights and spring temperature days reaching the high 40’s low 50’s with no snow on the ground. Perfect weather to clean up after winters’ storms, raking leaves and pine needles and scooping up the mess left behind...