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Social Inequities

Intellectual dishonesty has always offended me – at best it is fraud (ahem, Foucault) and at its worse hypocrisy (religion). Adin is taking “Social Inequalities” classified as a sociology class by the University of Oregon. It offers nothing substantive nor provides intellectual rigor. But he knew that before he signed up and did so preciselyContinue reading “Social Inequities”

YOSHIMITSU YAMADA

Yamada sensei died January 15, 2023. As the head of the United States Aikido Federation, Yamada sensei was a guardian sponsor to my instructors. His generosity helped Portland Aikikai flourish and allowed both Mulligan and Okamoto sensei to invite whomever would benefit the students and continue to grow the art. Therefore, we trained with ChibaContinue reading “YOSHIMITSU YAMADA”

World Happiness

I was never overly impressed with self-reported happiness indices and country rankings, until I read this 2022 working paper by Blanchflower and Bryson. The paper still uses self-reported data but this time, they add the negative dimensions of personal experience to tabulate a net happiness score. Combining data on around four million respondents from theContinue reading “World Happiness”