It is for this reason that the two worlds I inhabit – those of activism and policy making, and research and analysis – are deeply intertwined. Human beings need the intellect as well as the moral compass. We must invest in both to combat the immediate challenges that we are faced with now, and our long-term challenges of poverty, inequality and discrimination.
Kaushik Basu (as quoted 2021 in the Cornell Chronicle)
Theory: the increasing number of different full-screen-like modes in the common PDF viewer is making workshops and conferences worse on a global scale.
At the moment so much human endeavour is focused on ‘more’: more GDP, more profits for businesses, more consumer items, and this drive towards ‘more’ is causing us to massively overuse our resources and pollute our environment. So we actually need to focus on deeply fundamental questions like ‘What is happiness, what is human wellbeing?’, and we need to reorganise our global system in a way that we can manage with far less and still be just as happy and healthy.
Spinoza Prize winner Joyeeta Gupta: 'It's not an easy message'
Note to unknown: this could have been a quote from your article, if only it were open access.
Dr. Täuber was punished for exerting her academic freedom. The same court that allowed the UG to fire her also made it clear that it was the university’s negative reaction to an essay about her experiences of gender discrimination at the university that “seriously disturbed” their work relationship. Alarming details have also been made public about how the university pressured Dr. Täuber to censor future publications, in order to retain her position.
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Reinstate Dr. Täuber, reform complaint procedures, and establish binding protections for academic freedom.
