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The Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, has been in Ireland since the 17th century. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was imprisoned in Cork for his beliefs. Clara Pierre traces their roots.
Hollywood has traditionally been a pulpit for performative activism, where celebrities deliver political sermons and broadcast their virtue by endorsing causes in a manner that requires nothing more than talk. The biggest surprise at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony will be if no one onstage demands more equity and inclusion in movies, denounces white male privilege, delivers a lecture on police brutality, or declines to accept an Oscar, declaring the muscular, sword-wielding statuette an obvious symbol of heteronormative male supremacy.
If I had to describe the mission, the point, the raison d'etre of the entire field of psychology in just one sentence, I would say: Psychology aims to determine the relative extents to which biology and experience determine cognition and behavior." And, as you might expect, there are widely differing schools of thought.
In the most recent Ponderings, we expanded our knowledge of exploring, canoeing and, to a certain extent, walking – hiking. Central to that tale were Mackenzie…
Aristotle posited that houses aren’t just material structures of stones, bricks, and timber. They are also “receptacles to shelter ... living beings.”