Each week on Scrolling Scribe, editors will select their favorite archived articles and repost them for your reading pleasure. Originally published May 5, 2010. By David Harrison Thurpin Games are communication. The very act of playing to win prompts us to understand a game’s rules and potential strategies; we cannot proceed to successfully play without … [Read more...] about Scrolling Scribe: Games of Choice and Consequence
Archives for January 2014
The Book Is on the Table: Going Against the System
Public education in Brazil is shameful: insufficient infrastructure, scarce food and books, undemanding curriculum. The government (as well as many citizens) prefers to blame the students’ disadvantaged socioeconomic background as the main cause for poor academic performance, ignoring the far more worrisome state of public schools. Students are not the problem, and the … [Read more...] about The Book Is on the Table: Going Against the System
Chasing the Unicorn: Fiction As Convention
This semester, I'm taking a course called "Forms of Folklore." Before I went into the class, I didn't really know what was the distinction that made folklore, well, folklore, rather than mythology or religion or simply custom. To me, "folk" was an adjective that modified different art forms, but that stayed within a particular rustic setting. It was simple. It was rough-hewn … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Fiction As Convention
One Nation Under Who?: Religious Freedom vs Obamacare
The Supreme Court just tussled with the concept of religious liberty and the right for women to have contraceptive. Contraceptives have been mandated as part of employee medical insurance, as provided by employers under the Affordable Care Act. For-profit companies have already been told that they cannot exempt themselves out of the … [Read more...] about One Nation Under Who?: Religious Freedom vs Obamacare
Scrolling Scribe: Perceptions in the Fourth Dimension
Each week on Scrolling Scribe, editors will select their favorite archived articles and repost them for your reading pleasure. Originally published November 21st, 2012. By Michelle Lim A woman walks around her office, excavating messy piles of books and papers until she finally sees it: a daily planner bound in red leather. It is thick with appointments and … [Read more...] about Scrolling Scribe: Perceptions in the Fourth Dimension