Tag: Banned

I keep hearing about certain books being banned in libraries and schools, especially in the USA. It made me raise an eyebrow when I heard of popular fiction being removed from the shelves due to content such as witchcraft and LGBTQ material. It would be fine if it were inappropriate material wh...

The history of feminism is divided into four waves. Each wave had a different aim and occurred in a different time period. Exact dates are elusive, but broadly, the first wave spanned the 1800s and the early 1900s, the second wave occurred from the 1960s to the 1980s, the third wave from t...

Improbable and unrealistic scenarios are excellent tools to explore the odder aspects of our universe. Schrödinger’s cat being both alive and dead is a case in point. The trolley problem which had a massive resurgence in popularity and cultural awareness with the rise of autonomous cars i...

Inthe last two years alone, local and legislative efforts to implement book bans in classrooms and libraries have grown exponentially: According to PEN America, a free speech organization, there were 1,477 individual book ban cases in the fall 2022 semester alone — a 28% increase fro...