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Eastern Origins of Western Culture
Western civilization is often traced back to the classical world of Greece and Rome. However, those "Western" cultures themselves were...
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9 hours ago3 min read
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Diagnosing the Classroom: Foucault’s Warning and the Medicalization of Education
Foucault’s Warning: Medicalization as Social Control Michel Foucault warned decades ago of society’s creeping medicalization  – a...
professormattw
Jun 69 min read
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How Positivity Powers the Classroom: Lessons in Behavior, Brains, and Belonging
Imagine walking into a classroom buzzing with upbeat energy. Students are smiling, greeting each other, and eager to start the day. The...
professormattw
May 3019 min read
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Higgs Field Evolution, Vacuum Instability, and Cyclical Universe Theories
The Higgs Field and Its Vacuum State Over Time The Higgs field is an all-pervading quantum field that gives certain particles their mass....
professormattw
May 2613 min read
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Choice in Education from a philosophical perspectiveÂ
American educational philosopher John Dewey, who emerged prominently in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, contended that education...
professormattw
May 163 min read
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Why Dead Languages Are More Alive Than Ever
How Greek and Latin at The Barrett School Ignite Thinking, Ethics, and Curiosity It was a Tuesday morning in my eighth-grade Latin class...
professormattw
May 96 min read
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The Role of a Judeo-Christian Biblical Perspective in Promoting Excellence for All Students
Present-day classrooms present educators with the critical task of building spaces that honor every learner regardless of their...
professormattw
May 15 min read
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Ashes of Truth: Asch’s Conformity Experiment, Postmodernism, and the Modern Crisis of Meaning
In 1951, Solomon Asch conducted an experiment that would become a classic in social psychology—a chilling demonstration of how easily...
professormattw
Apr 264 min read
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The Paradox of Time from Aristotle to Modern Philosophy
Introduction Time has puzzled philosophers for millennia. In everyday life we divide time into past, present, and future, yet this...
professormattw
Apr 2128 min read
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Memory, identity, and the shadows of a lost world.
The film A Real Pain captured the haunting legacy of European Jewry with piercing clarity. Inspired by that film and grounded in personal...
professormattw
Apr 145 min read
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Negative Time in Quantum Physics: Paradoxes, Positrons, and Time-Symmetric Interpretations.
Introduction: Time is usually assumed to flow in one direction from past to future, but quantum physics sometimes permits descriptions...
professormattw
Apr 730 min read
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Zeno of Citium: Stoic Philosophy and the Sunlit Encounter
The Sunlit Encounter: Zeno and the King On a bright morning in Corinth’s public gardens, a mighty conqueror came to meet a humble...
professormattw
Mar 3019 min read
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Altermagnetism: The Third Form of Magnetism Unveiled
Introduction: A New Magnetism Emerges For over a century, physicists recognized two fundamental kinds of magnetic order: ferromagnetism...
professormattw
Mar 2417 min read
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Higgs Field Evolution, Vacuum Instability, and Cyclical Universe Theories
The Higgs Field and Its Vacuum State Over Time The Higgs field is an all-pervading quantum field that gives certain particles their mass....
professormattw
Mar 1613 min read
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Altermagnetism: The Third Form of Magnetism Unveiled
Introduction: A New Magnetism Emerges For over a century, physicists recognized two fundamental kinds of magnetic order: ferromagnetism...
professormattw
Mar 517 min read
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Experimenting with Light in 37 Dimensions: A Quantum Interferometry Breakthrough
Recent reports in Popular Mechanics and other outlets highlighted a mind-bending experiment where scientists created a photon that...
professormattw
Mar 317 min read
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How Project-Based and Problem-Based Learning Benefit Student Engagement and Behavior
Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Problem-Based Learning (PrBL) are two instructional methodologies that actively engage students in the...
professormattw
Feb 233 min read
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The Dice of the Universe
Imagine standing at the edge of a quantum realm, where certainty dissolves, and probabilities rule. This is the world described by...
professormattw
Feb 154 min read
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Reimagining the Scientific Method: Grounding Science in Ontological Randomness
If ontological randomness is fundamental to the fabric of reality, then the scientific method—as traditionally conceived—may require a...
professormattw
Feb 104 min read
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Ontological Randomness vs. Epistemological Randomness in Quantum Theory
The philosophical and scientific investigation of randomness in quantum theory is deeply rooted in questions of ontology (the nature of...
professormattw
Jan 305 min read
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