Grace’s Reviews > Microbia: A Journey into the Unseen World Around You > Status Update

In light of Bone’s discussion of her Columbia biology course costing literally SEVEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED USD, I am once again reminding you all of MOOC platforms like FutureLearn, Coursera, and EdX. Prohibitively expensive monopolized educational degrees are a nightmare dystopia creation that we can kill with combined effort in utilizing alternative educational means <333 get wrecked, prohibitive academia.

“[an online career assessment ] told me I was an extrovert, was someone who preferred intuition over sensing, [and] was judgmental versus perceptive, was thinking over feeling.” Mmmmm that’s not how it WORKS. MBTI misinformation is ever so irksome.

“‘As Iowan farmers, we provide affordable, safe food. When we don’t grow an acre of food here, they plow up an acre of forest in Brazil.’”
Just because something is MORE affordable and safer doesn’t mean it’s GOOD. Just because you’re “better” than a true evil doesn’t mean you’re the best option, it just means the bar is on the floor. aaaaAAAAAAAA *screams in permaculture*

“Borges’s bogus [taxonomy] classifications got Foucault thinking about the capriciousness and cultural bias of the whole exercise, and he argues that historians and scientists are incurably influenced by their cultural, institutional, and religious contexts.” I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE YES THANK YOU V V V GOOD QUOTE AND CONCEPT