Tag: Cornell University

• Say not ‘I have found the truth’, but rather ‘I have found a truth’.

  When I was young, I knew everything -and yet nothing, really. Things change; there is no fixed star, and when I look up with autumned eyes, even the world looks different now. But is it really? Is reality so different now from when I was a child, or does an invisible shroud already cloud my […]

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  March 16, 2022

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  Aeon.co, Cornell University, Elders, experience, Karl Pillemer, purpose, Wisdom, youth

• Non-Binary Gynaecology

  There was a time when I thought I had a handle on gender, but things change: it’s no longer constrained by only two choices. And then I thought I understood the variations on the theme of sexual preferences. I even learned their names. Now I’ve discovered that no less an authority than the New York […]

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  July 13, 2016

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  BBC news, Cornell University, Dennis Baron, Gender, gender identification, gender politics, language, New York TImes grammar, non-binary pronouns, political correctness, pronouns, Sally McConnell-Ginet, sexual preference, University of Illinois