So, what is real? I read the New York Times magazine article called ‘Out There’ (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11dark.t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=magazine). It is about how 96% of the universe appears to be made up of ‘dark energy’ and ‘dark matter’ – basically undescribed and unknown forces and substances. Everything else – not just life, but stars, planets, galaxies – what [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Current issues’
March 6, 2007
Does my head look big in this?
I’ve read about 2/3 of Does my head look big in this? It is about being a young Australian Muslim female who wants to be all three of those components of her identity and be accepted as equally able to be all of them at once. The range of characters and responses to Amal’s decision [...]
March 5, 2007
Wikipedia, knowledge and identity
Something to think big on. I saw another blog entry yesterday – I haven’t checked it’s validity, but it did give links that seemed to indicate it’s real – talking about how someone (Essjay) who claimed to be an established academic and who wrote over 800 pages of Wikipedia was, in fact, a 24 year [...]
