Second Thoughts: Whose Public Space? Graffiti and Infrapolitical Protest
Graffiti is about your hand-style, colors, and shading. When I think of graffiti I think of tagging and the hip-hop culture. What is often overlooked is the reason why hip-hop began—to make a statement in the world, and have a voice in your struggle. Graffiti and street art follow the same…
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“So it really ain’t a case of rich or poor,
it’s a case of self-motivation and nothing more.
Like Billy says, whether you have or you have not wealth,
the system might fail you, but don’t fail yourself.
And get better.”
- “Get Better,” Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
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Everything else is fading away; only Love remains.: 4.20.12
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Yesterday was my registration for next semester, and I was freaking out the whole time. I’m trying to explore more subjects because I am still unsure of what I want to major in. If all goes well and I end up liking all the classes I’ve registered for, next semester I will be taking (rough…
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Talking Monkeys In Space: Talking to Yourself Makes You Smarter
Talking to yourself is the preserve of mad men, right? Not according to a new study, which reveals that the seemingly irrational act of chatting to oneself actually improves cognitive function.
The research, carried out by Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swingley, was inspired the…
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Ty on Blog: “Psychological certainties are not to be found. Psychologists speaking...
“Psychological certainties are not to be found. Psychologists speaking on matters psychological are not like physicists speaking on matters physical. We have no unifying and coherent theories vindicated by nearly exceptionlness evidence. We have no covering laws worth the name, and only a few…
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Memoirs of a Werewolf Anthropologist: Things that make Anthropologists die inside.
The words “Primitive Culture.”
Excuse me, but who died and made you the arbiter of modernity? Just because a culture doesn’t conform to western norms and values doesn’t mean that they’re “not modern” or that they represent some kind of stagnant, unchanging tradition. Guess what? ALL cultures…
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Did Humans Invent Music? | The Atlantic
Food for thought: Is music a deep biological adaptation in its own right, or is it a cultural invention based mostly on our other capacities for language, learning, and emotion? And if music is an adaptation, did it really evolve to promote mating success as Darwin thought, or other for benefits such as group cooperation or mother-infant bonding?
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I love the multidimensional nature of Social Science & Humanities. The combination of all the disciplines, resemble a beautiful, rich & sometimes chaotic medley.