I was just reading this great book on triathlon training (”The Triathlete’s Training Bible”, by Joe Friel), and it has a lot of technique tips for all 3 sports. I was particularly interested in the running section the other day, and i discovered that my running style is horribly inefficient.
One of the first things [...]
So i found a ton of websites about different aspects of privilege…here’s a few i found interesting.
first, i love robert jensen. here are two articles of his that i read yesterday: White privilege shapes the U.S., and the followup, More thoughts on why a system of white privilege is wrong. Jensen writes a [...]
i had some tough conversations lately, specifically on the topic of the influence of male privilege on science. I find that talking about different types of social privilege (ie white, male, and class privilege specifically) is usually rather difficult when talking with those who benefit from such. As someone trying to convince them [...]
Someone just pointed out an article to me…an opinion article in the Globe and Mail, one of the national newspapers here in canada (specifically, March 7th, 2006, “How the feminists betrayed feminism”, by Margaret Wente). The gist of the article goes like this “Those damn feminists keep blaming imperialism for third world problems, but [...]
I went to visit Jack yesterday, and he seems to be doing ok. He had to go into the hospital on monday for another CT scan of his ankle, because the doctors thought there might have been damage to another bone. Turns out they were right. There’s a second bone that is [...]