Category: Blog
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Sapiens By Yuval Harari
This book covers big history from the big bang to today, with an emphasis on our species, and the other species of humans who we originally coexisted with. The book covers theories about what happened to our cousins, as well as what happened to every ecosystem we moved into. The book goes on to talk…
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Social Problems: Policy Analysis
CJ Trowbridge Professor Jeffrey Sacha SOC 301: Social Problems 2018-12-11 Social Problems: Policy Analysis Midterm Imagine a child being forced to have sex up to twenty times a night by a trusted friend or significant other. This is a very typical situation for thousands of children being sex trafficked on a daily basis throughout California.…
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When We Rise By Cleve Jones
I found this book inspiring for many reasons. I know many of the people and places in the story, so it has been intense to see so many of my friends’ roles in the story of gay liberation. It’s also interesting to see so many of the problems from before the movement still present today;…
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Social Justice: Final Paper
CJ Trowbridge 2018-12-04 SOC 110: Social Justice Social Justice: Final Paper I have talked to many people who feel that their vote doesn’t count. In the words of Rules For Radicals author Saul Alinsky, these people are “copping out” and refusing to participate. A self-fulfilling prophecy of nihilism is their response to troubling social conditions.…
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BT>HTTP
research adding bittorrent protocol to progressive offline bootstrap service workers It should not be this hard to use bittorrent as a protocol in browsers and especially in html5 apps. It should be just as easy to bootstrap service workers versus btsync. There is just no reason for servers to exist. This is low-key terrifying because…
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Topic Paper: Social Justice Pedagogy
CJ Trowbridge 2018-11-06 SOC 110: Social Justice Topic Paper: Social Justice Pedagogy The concept of liberation is interesting and counter-intuitive to me, based on the name. I expected to hear about the liberation of self, but interestingly, as the author puts it, if black people could liberate themselves from racism then they would have. It…
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Tim Ferriss Interviews Sam Harris on How to Master Your Mind
I follow both of these people obsessively. Hearing them together is magical. They are the perfect two people to talk about this important issue. Anyone who is interested in meditation or the mind should check out this great interview!
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Elon Musk: The Recode Interview
This is a really great interview that covers a lot of the recent insanity. She is really tough on him and he does a great job of responding well to many of the recent news stories about him and his companies. Interview Transcript Kara Swisher: I’m here with Elon Musk at the headquarters of Tesla.…
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Social Problems: Critical Media Analysis
CJ Trowbridge Social Problems 2018-10-30 Social Problems: Critical Media Analysis Midterm Paper The group I studied was Stand Up Placer which is a nonprofit working on the issue of the human trafficking of children, and the victim-centered approach to this issue. Stand Up Placer worked hard to get Placer County and its municipalities to take…
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A Call To Empathy!
I am doing a podcast series and looking for volunteers who are open to exploring empathy in one on one interviews for publication. The interviews are based on the study “The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness” by psychologist Arthur Aaron. This study is often talked about as “36 questions to fall in love.” The format…