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Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word
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Click Here to Read: Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word By Motoko Rich March 25, 2014.

Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times.  A Gadget to Close the Language Gap. An intervention program in Providence, R.I., uses a digital word counter to track language use in families, in an effort to close the “word gap” between children from low-income and affluent families.

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Stay Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine Roundtable at The New School
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Click Here to View:   Stay Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine in the annual Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal roundtable from NSSR Philosophy Department Blog.

Judith Butler joins Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster to discuss their book for the annual Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal that took place on March 13, 2014 in the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research. You can see more videos at philosophy blog.

 

Depression, the Secret We Share a TED Talk by Andrew Solomon
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Click Here to View:  Depression, the Secret We Share  by Andrew Solomon on TED.com
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.” In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years he battled depression. That led him to an eye-opening journey across the world to interview others with depression — only to discover that, to his surprise, the more he talked, the more people wanted to tell their own stories. (Filmed at TEDxMet.)