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Copy of a Copy: Information Fidelity and Dilution
Multi-fidelity Performance, created by Mariagisellefernandez. Used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en ) By Ben Rossi Enter AI—Enter Also Assumptions About AI It seems that the public thinks the biggest problem with AI is that “people will use less critical thinking.” That’s a cute assessment, one where you still believe that big tech companies are your friends. The trut
Ben Rossi
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The Virgin Mary Apparitions: An Exploration in the Philosophy of Religion through Mystical Experience and Reason
By Michelle Patino Quiroz Image courtesy of Eduardo Francisco Vazquez Murillo via Wikimedia Commons through Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en The apparitions of the Virgin Mary are the most widely discussed and historically significant mystical phenomena within the Catholic tradition. They have been reported across continents and centuries—from Mexico (Guadalupe, 1531) to Ecuador (Good Success, 1594–1634), Portugal (Fatima, 1917)
Michelle Patino Quiroz
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Why Buffy Matters More Now than Ever Before
Sarah Michelle Gellar, 2011 Comicon. Photo by Rach. Used via Creative Common license Attribution 2.0 Generic Deed. “If the apocalypse comes, beep me.” —Buffy Summers, Season 1, Episode 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer : “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date” By Veronica Downey Y2K was still over two years away, but in one sentence, Buffy Summers summed up her priorities in a way that made sense to the Gen X/Millennials watching weekly on the WB network (eventually UPN, where its f
Veronica Downey
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Edward Skeletrix, Hume’s Paradox of Tragedy, and a Crowd of Eyewitnesses
By Xyomara Reynoso Edward Skeletrix, c. 2023. Copyright relinquished via CC0 1.0 Universal Deed https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en A man in a large red coat is seated in an office chair and is being covered in layers of bedsheets by a woman behind him. They are surrounded by a crowd of onlookers anticipating Edward Skeletrix standing up from the chair and potentially performing music . Two men run through the crowd and appear to stab the man several tim
Xyomara Reynoso
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Logic and Rationalization in Babylonian Myth
By Reason Kristhoffer Neo-Assyrian Protective Spirit, c. 9th century BCE. Licensed through Cleveland Museum of Art's Open Access Initiative Logic, as we'll discuss it here, is the study and practice of correct reasoning. Logic supports using reasoning to grasp information, draw conclusions, understand thought processes, and prove or disprove truths—all activities that can be hard to engage in mythology due to its beyond-human nature. To be sure, mythology often requires the s
Reason Kristhoffer
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A Report: Notes on President Trump's Policies
by Prof. Andre Blaszczynski Trump and globe image courtesy of Unsplash. Used via licensing from Wix. A WORD FROM OUR PUBLISHER: The following report consists of detailed notes on President Donald Trump's policies by Professor Andre Blaszczynski. This formed the basis for a lecture delivered to Macroeconomics students at CT State Tunxis in December by Prof. Blaszczynski. Having given the talk, he distributed the report to a few colleagues, whereupon I saw the value of his an
Andre Blaszczynski
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A Balance of Stoic Wisdom and Modern Intelligence
By Cassandra Burrows René Descartes. Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Consciousness is a major...
Cassandra Burrows
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AI—The New Steroid Injecting Education
By Patrice Hamilton Professor of English, CT State Tunxis Deutsch: Illustration für Projekt KI und Wikipedia, Rubrik Textgenerierung....
Patrice Hamilton
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A Mourning in March
By Lauren Giove The transition from winter to spring is a quiet one snow tracks into the house and melts alongside muddy boots sturdy...
Lauren Giove
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Reason Has a Mother Tongue
By Jaidis Ameer Image of a geometric representation of logic being cradled by letters. Copyright © 2025 by the author. All rights...
Jaidis Ameer
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Simple Logic in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴
By Liliann Klouda Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkien, 1892-1973. The Fellowship of the Ring. ) By Nidoart, Micthev, Eugenio Hansen, OFS. Creative...
Liliann Klouda
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Why Has the Data and Analytics Field Taken Off Recently and What Is in the Future for It?
By Eric Dougherty English: Scientific visualization of an extremely large simulation of a Rayleigh–Taylor instability problem. This...
Eric Dougherty
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Philosophy of the Unseen
By Katie Norris Philosophy: The study of questions, knowledge, reality, and our existence. When we think of philosophy, our mind conjures...
Katie Norris
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Kantian Ethics and Societal Race Relations
Opinion By Rene Lambert In the American Declaration of Independence that framed the backbone and official direction of America, it is...
Rene Lambert
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A Critical Reception of 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙙𝙤𝙣
By Evan Piccioli I am a sitcom enthusiast; I love anything comedy-related! I often will tune into Laugh USA on my Sirius XM radio on my...
Evan Piccioli
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Remembrance As Revealed Through Intuition
By Jaidis Ameer Intuition is the ability to know something immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. Unlike logic, which...
Jaidis Ameer
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𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢—Or, How I Got The Idea for My Book
By Patricia Metzner Many years ago, in a kingdom known as the Gold Roc diner, now an IHOP, I was enjoying a weekend breakfast with some...
Patricia Metzner
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The Uncertainty of the Future
By Joe Buchanan Adding to the official caveat that is standard to Action Academe, just to preface my post, I would like to underscore...
Joe Buchanan
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The 'Dharma' of Imaginative Breakthroughs and the Law and Literature Movement: COWBOY CARTER & the Thought of T. M. Krishna
Joining me for this new installment in our ChatHUMAN podcast series is our guest co-host Aniruddha Rao: IT security guru, now law...
J.I. Abbot
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Positive Discourse in a World of Turmoil
By John R. Zadrozny Approaching my first post to Action Academe, I have pondered what topic would be suitable for such a diverse academic...
John R. Zadrozny
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