Tag: Controversy

This is a linguistics controversy. Now there are two of them. There are two ____.

Why are we yelling?? The wug, a cute, blue, bird-like creature with lil stick legs, is the subject of controversy (the kind with lawyers, yikes!) about who can use it. If you’re on Twitter, your first indication that something was up might have been that our favorite linguist, Steven&nbs...

Napoleon Bonaparte: A Legacy of Ambition and Controversy

Early Life and Rise to Power: Napoleon's early life was marked by a relentless pursuit of education and military training. He graduated from the French military academy of Brienne-le-Château and later from the prestigious École Militaire in Paris. His meteoric rise to prominence ...

Navigating the Controversy: The Debate Over Full-Body MRIs and Their Risks

ONE OF THE HOTTEST CELEBRITY TRENDS is not an Hermes handbag or some other crazy expensive accessory. Stars are flocking to whole-body MRI scans through a company called Prenuvo. Master influencer Kim Kardashian donning hospital garb before a powerful magnetic resonance imagin...

When Can White People Say the N-Word?

OnSaturday, February 5th, Joe Rogan issued an apology after Grammy Award winner India.Arie shared a montage of him saying the n-word repeatedly on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. There is a lot of controversy surrounding Rogan, his podcast, and his deal with Spotif...

On ???The World Needs More Cowboys??? University of Wyoming slogan controversy???

I’m a fourth generation Natrona County Pioneer. My son represents the fifth generation of our paternal line in Natrona County. My paternal grandfather’s grandmother’s family settled around Casper in the 1870s, starting the first non-native settlement called Freeland Camp on what is...

Cancelled: The Sylvanaqua Farms Controversy

April 26, 2021 was the worst, and best, day of my life. I was about to break up with someone. Actually, closer to a dozen someones. The previous 15 months had been some of the most bizarre in recent American history, kicking off with a pandemic, lurching into the most pronounced racial unrest in ...

The controversy of accessible type

As you navigate cities, transportation, products, and services, you might notice that most of the built environment has been created by non-disabled people, forming barriers and preventing *disabled people from participating. Just one common example is how stairs prevent wheelchair users and people ...

The Enduring Controversy Around Carl Jung

I received an interesting email from a reader following my last newsletter on Active Imagination. The reader thanked me for sharing my journey but said, “this should be noted and faced.” He linked to an article about Sabina Spielrein, one of Carl Jung’s famous patients wi...