Sherpa as a metaphor: “someone so skilled at carrying weight for others that no one knew anything of her burdens.” http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com//2014/11/22/the-rules-of-psychotherapy/
Public utilities like the water supply must be regulated to protect the public. Broadband is a public utility. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/18/john-hodgman-the-government-should-be-laying-down-broadband-like-eisenhower-laid-down-interstates/
John Hodgman: ‘The government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates’. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/18/john-hodgman-the-government-should-be-laying-down-broadband-like-eisenhower-laid-down-interstates/
“Treat the people we expect the least of in the way we all want to be treated.” The Bard Prison Initiative. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/amazing-results-when-you-give-prison-inmate-liberal-arts-education-180953041/
The Amazing Results When You Give a Prison Inmate a Liberal Arts Education. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/amazing-results-when-you-give-prison-inmate-liberal-arts-education-180953041/
“Treat the people we expect the least of in the way we all want to be treated.” The Bard Prison Initiative.
“He pushes you to ask questions. It frustrated me at the time. I was 19, I was looking for answers.†http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/amazing-results-when-you-give-prison-inmate-liberal-arts-education-180953041/?all&no-ist
“This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.” Moments of connection in a place devoted to distances. Gate A-4
Some ways that social media can serve or even catalyze women’s activism. “Kolkata Women Mobilize Against Violence.” http://www.womensmediacenter.com/feature/entry/kolkata-women-mobilize-against-violence1
A dictator subsumes the state. Toss out a dictator and for a time you have no state, says Hisham Matar. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/consequences-dreams
Semaphore & Cairn 