The Best of planksip — An Index

Figures of Speech

Figures of Speech is a collection of over 1,500 quotes (and growing) from famous figures of our past. Giants from the past worthy of our remembrance. Co-authorship is recognized on each speech act (blog post). As these tidbits of romantic tendencies arise, 'ent-sprechen' emerges and the reflection subsides, ephemeral yet less so as we culturally transmit the Logos of learning and all that we value. 'O sepi to poli' is courtesy of Aristotle.

Fun Reviews

Inspired and brought to life through the imaginings of one Samir Samson, these reviews embody the character, virtuous and otherwise, of a lover of literature, life and the hell all around us. The struggle is all around us, will you turn to the classics? We hope so!

Art

Philosophical and deeply motivated by the love of learning, the other side of planksip art is also fun, playful and an extension of community expression. For example, the series on Wife Art isn't so much an art movement as an expression of a movement. These Reflections from our culture and how we view women in union with the tradition of marriage. The meaning is not only in the meme, but the narratives we tell ourselves and others. Reflections change over time, will our aestetics?

Philosophy Without Borders

Welcome to Against Professional: A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary

Spiral Inquiry

An exploration of science, faith, and philosophy. Join George Gantz on this spiral journey as he inquires into topics at the intersection of scientific knowledge, human experience and spiritual insight, in the effort to understand, to grow, to change and to make the future a better place. Explore a diverse collection of essays, posts and videos.

Bill Meacham, Ph.D.

What's What: Philosophical Writings Bill Meacham got his college and university degrees in philosophy and then left that field to make his living as a programmer, software designer, project manager and requirements analyst. But he never quit thinking about the nature of reality and his place in it, the nature of human beings and how it makes sense to live our lives.

Our Culture / Ourselves

Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.

Philosophy From A to Z

All human thinking proceeds by means of 'concepts'. Find out why. Series courtesy of Robert Hanna, Ph.D.

How the World Really Works

Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.

Allele

The word "allele" is a short form of allelomorph ("other form", a word coined by British geneticists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes. It derives from the Greek prefix ἀλληλο-, allelo-, meaning "mutual", "reciprocal", or "each other", which itself is related to the Greek adjective ἄλλος, allos (cognate with Latin alius), meaning "other".

Brent Antonson

Brent Antonson spent years living abroad including extended stints teaching English at universities and schools in Russia, Iraq and China. He’s travelled widely including driving all 50 American states. With his younger brother and their father, they circumnavigated the Northern Hemisphere by train over five journeys including in countries like Belarus, Mongolia and North Korea. And his "Ties That Binds" is being considered for publication. Brent is from Vancouver, Canada (49.15'N 123.6'W).

Global Burning

Centric to the only hegemony that matters. The RATE at which our climate is changing is alarming! Does that make us all either alarmists or deniers? The dichotomy may be false but the threat is real. Navigating towards a better future is an ideal worth living for. Come on people let's do something about this!

OWD

Our World in Data is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.

William D. Higginson

“My art is a glimpse through the doorway into the country of emotion – but it is your country, not mine.”

Bryan Caplan

I'm Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author.

The Economics of Suffering

The work explores psychological ruptures wreaked on those most vulnerable-the mentally disabled, the elderly; those in extreme poverty and other disenfranchised populations suffering from homelessness, hunger, and violence.

Steve Keen

post-Keynesian Economist

Gender + Indigenous Voices

Ronnie is voice defending the marginalized in this section of gender and indigenous voices.

The planksip P.A.S.F. filter

'People also search for ... ' is the Google algorithm that we use in literary analysis and personalized episteme through the axiology (value) of Logos. Okay, that's a mouthful.

Preparing for Civilizations End

Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.

Practicum

The posts in this section represent a sample of the assignments generated for the planksip writers' cooperative and/or the ESL mentorship program. Membership matters!

The Free Will Debate

Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action. It is closely linked to the concepts of responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgments which... - Wikipedia

B&W Poetics (for Mother Earth)

A dialogue of sorts, poetic and to the images of Michael E. Mann's series on Climate Science. This series on the planksip blog includes transcripts and membership benefits including writing competitions for cash prizes, unlimited digital publishing and an organic platform for thought leadership, stewardship and minimalism: http://planksip.me/BandW Narrated by: Daniel Sanderson (Vancouver, BC) Samir Arora (Washington, DC)

Cyber Security in the Ancient World

Welcome to ‘Cyber Security in the Ancient World’. When thinking of communication security, we often think of computer systems, banks, and secret services, like the FBI and CIA. Yet, the Greeks and Romans knew everything about hiding secrets and securing confidential information. In this series of ten videos, we will discuss ten examples of secret communication in the Greco-Roman world from the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE.

Radical Non-Duality

Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.

Creative Works

Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.

Wife Art

The lasting effect of this series is one of foulness, a biological tradition of shared space and living a life together. Art is an expression, Wife Art is questionable by definition.

Carousel Images & Articles

Our featured images and articles occupy a revolving yet functional aesthetic on the planksip home page, the Aikos of dissemination writ large!

Mood Studies with Professor Stephen Coleman

Russia

Brought to you by planksip contributor Brent Antonson.

Tyrone Keynes

Education Forensics

"Whoever says that he 'belongs to his time' is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment." - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The Myth Man

David Fitzgerald is the award-winning author of Nailed and The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Series (including The Mormons and Jesus: Mything in Action). New episodes of his planksip video series, The Myth of Jesus with David Fitzgerald can be seen every month at: https://planksip.me/MythMan

Working Smarter

Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.