Working Undercover in a Slaughterhouse: an interview with Timothy Pachirat | Medium | August 2014 Timothy Pachirat is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale University Press, 2011), an ethnographic account of his undercover job in a cattle slaughterhouse. “I wanted
Is This a Sandwich? Teaching the Platonic Dialogues Through Sandwiches | Medium | August 2014 — Well, Socrates, I am happy to tell you what a sandwich is, as I have great knowledge of these things as you know.— Thank you, Euthyphro, I will be glad to listen to you, for you are a learned man and I am just
Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away | Medium | September 2014 A treasure trove of links to studies on the impacts of technology on thinking. The level of distraction in my classes seemed to grow, even though it was the same professor and largely the same set of topics, taught to a group of students