This chapter will specifically teach you how to think about abstracting real world details and modeling a part of a real world system (the system of western music theory) as types and values. This kind of modeling comes up every time you want to write software that incorporates some kind of...
the Simurgh helps us unlock an empire of senses and the dominion of the other-worldly: from the affective to the extractive. On the one hand stands the eagle, a stale short-hand for toxic masculinity; on the other, Simurgh often depicted as flaming, with a woman’s body or head, if ...
AgnieszkaHudzikPolish JewishLiterature:ABriefHistory,Theoretical Framework,andaTeachingExample“Thereis no Polishhistorywithoutthe Jews,andthereis no Jewishhistorywith-outPoland.”Such are thewords of theprominenthistorianJacobGoldberg, whowasborninŁódź,survivedthe Buchenwaldconcentrationcamp,andimmigrat-ed ...
And even if you wanted to argue the tax system should try to figure out who’s better off by virtue of consuming more wisely, the marriage penalty ignores an even greater inequality. Even with a flat tax, and no formal marriage penalty at all, a family with two people each making $100...
I do not address just any type of solidarity, but rather mainly focus on ecological solidarity. Some may ask why we would need to transcend the idea of traditional solidarity in cases associated with social justice and look for a new concept of ecological solidarity. My answer is this: if ...
b) the process of the brain’s neurons engaging with the information (chemicals), which is being commonly referred to in terms of a ‘thought,’ is idealistic (non-material). After all, unlike what it happened to be with the secretions of one’s liver, for example, the secretions of ...