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Hint: think with your stomach.
These phrases use “food as metaphor” to help us better conceptualize the way we relate to the abstract ideas of media & information. Since both food and media are things we consider to consume, there are many shared metaphors between them.
But why should we care to better understand our relationship with information?
Read this sentence. Now read it again 90 times.
Humans in developed countries today consume a staggering
90 times more information than they did in 1940. According to the same study, we now spend 80% of our waking hours consuming information, as opposed to just 15% in 1940. That’s 4 out of every 5 waking minute consuming information!
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(March 21-April 19) In late April of 1969, Cambridhgeshire, UK hosted the first-ever Thriplow Daffodil Weekend: a flower show highlighting 80 varieties of narcissus. In the intervening years, climate change has raised the average temperature 3.24 degrees Fahrenheit. So the flowers have been blooming progressively earlier each year, which has necessitated moving the festival back. The last pre-Covid show in 2019 was on March 23-24, a month earlier than the original. Let s use this as a metaphor for shifting conditions in your world. I invite you to take an inventory of how your environment has been changing, and what you could do to en
The Tablet March 1, 2021
The following is the full text from homilist Father Franklin Ezeorah, for the Feb. 28, 2021 Black History Month Mass:
“I like to begin by thanking your excellency Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, the Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn Diocese, and the Very Reverend Father Alonzo Cox, the Vicar for the Black Catholic Concerns of the Diocese of Brooklyn, for graciously allowing me to be the homilist of this year’s Diocesan Black History celebration. This Diocese is arguably the most diverse in the US because of its openness to welcome immigrants and its diversified nature of pastoral ministration… and the credit goes to you, Bishop, and your collaborators for realizing that there is strength in diversity. We essentially embrace diversity because although we have different people globally, we have only one human race.
EXCLUSIVE: Beams holding up roof of chapel, in Smithfield, are rotting, causing water to cascade down walls
Although nearly enough money was raised to fund repairs last year, work was delayed by coronavairus crisis
Though it is now part of the church, the Lady Chapel was sold off during King Henry VIII s Reformation
Was there that Benjamin Franklin, one of the United States founding fathers, worked in a printing workshop