Word: humanism
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...Gertie the Dinosaur, Krazy Kat and Mickey Mouse, through the classic Warner Bros. cartoons and up to Disney's The Lion King, Pixar's A Bug's Lifeand of course Happy Feet: stick to animals. When stylized artfully, they have so much more wit and personality than mere human beings. Not having to attempt a duplication of reality liberates a good animator's imagination. In KFP you'll see this in the spectacular fight scenes, but also in the character sketching, in the subtlety of glances and gestures...
...Issues of human commodification will continue to frame debates in the future with the advancements of biotechnology. This has already begun in conjunction with genomic research, cloning, and the commodification of DNA. We will need to consider the practicality and efficacy of our legislation more so than people’s moral indignation at certain activities. Legalized compensation for organ donation is a clear starting point...
...lived up to the vision of H.G. Wells: It is one in which statistical thinking is “as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” The relevance of mathematics to understanding contemporary policy issues, healthcare, and the modern conception of human nature is increasingly clear. Students who want an in-depth understanding of everything from behavioral economics to education policy require more than a superficial level of proficiency with numbers...
...more than ever, people employ data-backed arguments, even to tackle the problems once addressed by the other fields. Just 100 years ago, the mystery of human happiness was a question for poets and theorists, but today, we take heed of empirical studies correlating happiness to job security and relative wealth. Now, even the moral dilemmas of altruism are modeled by behavioral economists interested in quantifying the extent to which people are averse to inequality. In order for the social theorist or ethicist to develop such models, however, certain foundational mathematical skills are necessary. Questions of scientific inquiry?...
...driven campaign was revealed as anachronistic and too synthetic in the sparkling intensity of this year's election. Her husband's strengths were humbled by his flaws; his wholesale bitterness overwhelmed his retail campaigning. But the greatest revelation was Hillary Clinton herself - a fabulously skilled candidate and a compelling human being, one of the very rare politicians who found her soul during a campaign, rather than losing it. She needs to find a way to savor that now, without standing in the way of her party's future...