Listening To Frank Turner And Writing My History Coursework On Rousseau. My Evening Is Full Of Great

Listening to Frank Turner and writing my history coursework on Rousseau. My evening is full of great philosophers.

Why did you start following me?

Do it on anon or not. I’m really curious about why you started following my blog.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can’t wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

David Walliams, The Boy in the Dress

Tumblr tends to be very America-centric so can we just turn our eyes for a minute to the UK

Specifically to this woman. 

Earlier today, Jo Cox, a Labour MP in Northern England, was stabbed and shot at an event in a library. 

It has just been confirmed that she has died due to the attack. 

She was a great campaigner and humanitarian, and has left behind a husband and two children. 

This kind of event happens rarely in the UK, and so this is terrifying and destabilising that such a horrific thing has happened to such a compassionate person. 

Can thoughts on Tumblr turn to the UK today please, and turn to remember a woman who has been brutally murdered after a lifetime of trying to build a better country.

Heroes of science

The Death of National Geographic (and some payback)

National Geographic Magazine has been bought out by 21st Century Fox, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (and the infamous Fox News). About 9% of National Geographic’s award-winning staff was immediately laid off on the day of the takeover, the largest amount of layoffs in their history. 

The sale marks a shift of the previous non-profit organization to a for-profit one, and most likely means that the long-term investigative reporting stories National Geographic is famous for will no longer be funded, in favor of shorter, shallower, more clickbaity stories. 

Rupert Murdoch is a known climate change denier, and has a long history of disrespecting, misunderstanding, or flat-out ignoring science. The people working for National Geographic knew that the sale would likely mean the end of truly science-based writing.

So what did they write for their last non-Fox-affiliated issue?

An entire issue where every single article is about the indisputable scientific truth of global warming, and what it’s doing to our planet.

National Geographic as we know it may be dead, but at least it died doing what it did best - upholding science and spreading knowledge.

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