Weekly Digest #95

Something for the weekend:

1. Why sexual violence prevention programmes don’t work

2. Mycoaesthetics

3. Can We Be Kind?

4. ‘Quantum Drama’ Review: Entangled in Physics

5. Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide

6. ‘The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing’ - Toni Morison Link

7. Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith: ‘To some extent, our planet would be better off without humanity’

8. What makes Mondo fly?

9. Agency Without Agents: Affective Forces, Communicative Events, and Organizational Becomings

10. Swimming pretty: The untold story of women in water

11. Epic corporate jargon alternatives

12. How Physicians Leveraged Early Hospital X-ray Machines to Supplant Photographers

13. For far too long, medicine has ignored the valuable insights that patients have into their own diseases. It is time to listen

14. Should we abolish exams?

15. “The Olympic Village offers free healthcare. The United States, of course, does not” Link