Its reality will only ‘collapse’ into one alternative or the other upon being observed. An outside observer will only know which fate is real by opening the box before that, the cat is in something called superposition, potentially either dead or alive. If no radioactivity is detected, the cat survives and may live in ill-tempered indolence for many years. If a monitor inside the box detects radioactive energy, the vial is shatters and the cat dies a slow, horrible death. In the simplified version, and you know you’re in the deep end of the pool when even the thought experiment needs to be simplified, there’s a cat locked in a box with a vial of poison and a radioactive source. When attempting to understand Sean Carroll’s new book Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, we might as well start with every dog-lover’s favorite thought experiment: Schrödinger’s Cat.
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Midwest Futures: Phil Christman is one of my favorite thinkers and writers this book is thoughtful, funny, and got my brain really excited. It was regional pride and feminist ethic catnip! I was living in Boston when I first discovered Belt and I was absolutely delighted to see a woman-founded, worker-owned press from my hometown. Rust Belt Femme is their first memoir and received recognition in NPR's Favorite Books of 2020, was a finalist in the Heartland Bookseller's Award, and was the winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler, Bitch, Teen Vogue, In These Times, among other publications. She holds a PhD in Critical Media Studies, with a minor in Feminist & Critical Sexuality Studies from the University of Minnestoa. Raechel Anne Jolie (she/they) is a writer and educator based in Cleveland, Ohio. With “Theodore Rex,” though, we see a man who is thrust into the Presidency without the opportunity to prepare mentally, as others had through the fire and course of a national campaign.Īnd yet, after a first term as Governor of New York, it became clear that those who controlled New York’s political machine would not allow Roosevelt another reform minded term. Individuals from his German tutor while he studied abroad to those who came into contact with him while he fought policy corruption in New York City, not to mention the men who served with him in the Spanish-American War. To read the first in Edmund Morris’ biographical series on Theodore Roosevelt (see my review here: “ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt“), one might be left with the feeling that it was inevitable that Teddy someday become President. Hoover is New York Times’s best-selling author At the same time, many may agree that many of her books are beautifully written with raw characters and perfectly twisted storylines, while others feel average and generic. Hoover’s first-ever book “Slammed” was self-published in 2012, and things have only looked up for her since. It was revealed that the author went from self-publishing her writings to selling over twenty million books by 2022. Colleen Hoover is a forty-three-year-old author specializing in writing heartbreaking young adult romance and fiction. The Covid-19 pandemic seemed like just the push her books needed, and not a day goes by when we do not find someone completely engrossed in “It Ends With Us,” possibly the writer’s most successful book till now. Book Fairs and libraries feel less like a space for all types of novels and more like a Colleen Hoover novel’s special. If there is one thing that everyone has read, heard, or seen, wilfully or not, it is novels written by a famous author Colleen Hoover. The book is replete with stories of gender dysphoric individuals, including many who have struggled with their Christian faith or were hurt in some way by Christian leaders. In his book Understanding Gender Dysphoria, Evangelical Protestant psychologist Mark Yarhouse repeatedly emphasizes the need to distinguish between “pastoral care” and “cultural engagement.” This book, released by a Christian publishing house (InterVarsity Press, 2015), appears to be written primarily for Christians and often comes across as a corrective intended to help Christians understand better the experiences of those with confusion about their sexual identity and strike a more compassionate tone in relating to them and welcoming them into our churches. Such charity is especially needed today in addressing the delicate topic of gender dysphoria. While common and understandable, both tendencies result in distortions of Christian charity. This task can be challenging as the fallen human heart is often tempted to compromise elements of truth in order maintain social harmony or relentlessly seek victory in argument without respect and sensitivity for the persons involved. Now more than ever, Christians are called to speak the truth in love. In today’s climate of political polarization, calls for civility are becoming more and more frequent. Battles will be fought, alliances will be forged, and the Resistance will be reborn. If hope is to survive, the Resistance must journey throughout the galaxy, seeking out more leaders-including those who, in days gone by, helped a nascent rebellion topple an empire. From the jungles of Ryloth to the shipyards of Corellia, the shadow of the First Order looms large, and those with the bravery to face the darkness are scattered and isolated. But names can only get you so far, and Leia's last desperate call for aid has gone unanswered. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa-their names are famous among the oppressed worlds they fight to liberate. Star Wars: Resistance Reborn is a Star Wars novel by Rebecca Roanhorse, published by Del Rey Books on November 5, 2019. In the wake of their harrowing escape from Crait, what was once an army has been reduced to a handful of wounded heroes. _ In this pivotal prequel to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the heroes of the Resistance-Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rey, and Finn-must fight back from the edge of oblivion. My heart has more rooms in it than a whore house.”īut when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about." Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies." I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.” Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. He recognised her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: 'Only God knows how much I loved you.'"Īge has no reality except in the physical world. Photograph: Miguel Tovar/AP Photograph: Miguel Tovar/AP She examines the long history of racism behind the law as well as the ideological barriers thrown up against Muslim assimilation. Joan Wallach Scott, the renowned pioneer of gender studies, argues that the law is symptomatic of France’s failure to integrate its former colonial subjects as full citizens. The Politics of the Veil is an explosive refutation of this view, one that bears important implications for us all. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France’s values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam’s resistance to modernity. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of “conspicuous signs” of religious affiliation in public schools. |