Philinomics

The education system is buggered and we all know it. I was recently watching a series online called “Orange is the new black”, now whilst I’m by no means going to act as if I watched this on my own accord to begin with, I must concede that the series was eye opening. The format of the show follows the character called Piper Chapman and her journey in prison for a year. Now without going in to too much detail, the series shows the journeys of every inmate she encounters into prison and shows the variety of stories and sentences that inmates are subject to. If you’ve read this far and haven’t thought I’ve gone completely mad I thank you and assure you I am coming to my point. One such character on the show is a girl called Janae Watson, she is around twenty years old and her story is by far the one that resonated with me the most. Now, without advertising the show too much if, when you read this, you feel like you need to go and watch the show I would recommend it and urge you to watc...

What’s wrong with society today? How many issues can we actually see? From the starving in third world countries to the drowning in Houston Texas and India whose lives have been turned upside down in a night. We don’t have to feel guilty though of course, for we are merely normal people who lead normal lives that don’t interfere with theirs. We’re first world and they’re third world. We can’t make a change so what’s the point, right? Well let me ask you, as did Peter Singer, would you save the life of a drowning child? What if you had on expensive shoes and a watch that you didn’t have time to take off? You would? Are you sure? Well, why don’t you? UNICEF recently published figures saying 5.9 million children or so die every single year in impoverished countries. They were proud of that figure. I was not. See, they were proud of the fact that they managed to control such figures from 12 million down to 5.9. My question is why isn’t it close to 0? The reason is us. You and...