https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBF2mOz5FwE&t=45s The above video was a presentation created for ANTH 378: Sustainability, Resilience, and Society. Climate Change is defined by NASA as “. . . a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates” (NASA). Although there is a vast amount of data analyzed by […]
(Black Swan in Konya, 2017. Joseph Kimsey). Per Karl Popper, the claim that all swans are white is falsifiable, as black swans demonstrably exist. A final paper for PHIL 362: Topics in the Philosophy of Science. Karl Popper had an overriding desire to distinguish between authentic science and pseudoscience. For Popper, Einstein had developed a
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(Buddha in Repose, National Museum of Antiquities, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2018. Joseph Kimsey) Mindfulness is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis” (Merriam-Webster). While mindfulness is not necessarily a concept normally tied to the social sciences, it