an educational graphic about critical thinking for tumnblr
The all important journalist questions,
and then some.A missing line from Why:
“If you really want to be
a critical reader, it turns out you have to step back one step
further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth,
but why he’s writing about this subject at all.“That is an excellent addition.
One other one for How: “how could this be exploited by someone acting in bad faith?” Closely coupled with a What: “what are the limits on the ill-effects this could produce?”
And a quick check for double standards: “who, or what, is the speaker not applying this principle to?”
(This is also a great guide for interrogating historical documents such as, say, a constitution, a press release, a speech, a letter, a diary, a bill of rights, political policies, &c)
I need to grab this and adapt this for my little filmmaking courses.
Because these questions are equally indispensible when YOU are the author of the script, the book, the story, the speech.
Day: August 1, 2017
Ancient earthquakes
These layered rocks are Ordovician aged sediments deposited in Kentucky, about 450 million years ago. The sediments accumulated in a basin forming to the west of a growing mountain range that geoscientists call the Taconic orogeny – part of today’s Appalachian mountains. See the couple layers that are heavily deformed? Those layers are sediments that were churned up after they were deposited, forming what are called ball and pillow structures or, more specifically in this case, seismites. A large earthquake disturbed those sedimentary layers about 450 million years ago.
Not to be crass (because I never am), but are British nationalists implying that William is shagging his mum’s ghost spirit who inhabits his wife’s body?
Please can someone answer this.
i feel like i’m desensitized to the point that if i saw an eldritch abomination i’d call it a good tentacle boy and try to pet it
I would definitely pat the good tentacle boys.
H1, please!
I have been trying to think of a really happy rat story for you, but unfortunately the victories tend to be short lived at best. There is one that stands out though, with equal parts kindness and joy.
Once upon a time Dr Ferox returned to the clinic after a horse colic to see the senior vet, and her mentor, hunched over as small body under a surgical drape.
“Whatcha got there?”
“Mostly tumour. Underneath that there’s a rat.”
“Hmm, that almost looks like more tumour than rodent.”
“Yep.”
“And they want surgery now why?”
“The parents brought it in for euthanasia.”
“Parents?”
“Yeah.”
“……And?”
“And this bloody kid asked me if I could save it and said he had saved up $70 in his piggy bank.”
“Seriously?”
“Yes.”
“That’s adorable.” She looked at me over the thick rims of her glasses with an exasperated sigh.
“I know! How could I say no to that?”
“Well, I’m not telling the boss.”
“Oh god no, don’t tell the boss.”Fortunately most tumours on rats tend to be benign, so they do quite well with surgery. I don’t know what the parents thought when he got his rat back, but I know the kid was thrilled.
An old story from the earlier days.
I need help reacting to something.
Getting your child a pet they will love and then letting it die needlessly due to lack of treatment is cruel. The kid shouldn’t have hat to pay. If his parents didn’t want to pay for vet treatment, they shouldn’t have got him a pet.
On the other hand, the kid sounds adorable, the vets sound lovely, and it all turned out well?
me as a child: man i sure have a lot of weirdly specific quirks that are totally random but also somehow intrinsically related lmao
me, reading about autism for the first time: sHIT
This website is so wierd.
Like the same people who call out creepy or annoying behavior in men specifically, will encourage it or cheer it on of a lesbian does it.
Man to a woman with a book who doesn’t look like she wants to talk: “you’re hot.”
Tumblr: “this is why I hate men. Can’t they get a clue???”
Lesbian to a woman with a book who doesn’t look like she wants to talk: “you’re hot.”
Tumblr: “Yaaaaas! Put that book down and converse with the love of your life!”
Also applies to women who do this to men. Accept of course that a man who doesn’t immediately give the woman attention is shamed and hated, while the same reaction to the action for the reverse is frowned upon and portrayed as sexism.
I was having weird ambivalent feelings about “lesbian desire is not predatory” and I think you just articulated why.
Desire, in and of itself, is not predatory, and WLW should not fear being predators because they happen to desire women.
But anyone can behave in a predatory way and use the fact that they feel desire to excuse it.
And yes, some WLW do that.
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