Philosophy Can Be Creepy
Some classic thought problems in philosophy and game theory are outdated and sexist.
The Sleeping Beauty Problem, as it is usually taught, is rapey and gross.
Here’s a solution to the problem with the Sleeping Beauty Problem that will help you reach your Gen Z students.
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Shopping Graduate Programs? Pay Attention to Faculty Photos
If the staff pics all look like they have been run through a beauty filter at the Factory of Conformity and Lies, be very afraid.
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Ways Patriarchy Makes Men Miserable
The very things that used to make men feel happy, proud, and empowered are making them feel bad instead. Patriarchal privileges begins to sour
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How To Fire A Bad Teacher: Head’s Secret Handbook
It is much harder than you think to get rid of a bad teacher at a small in-grown private school. Here’s what to do.
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Homecoming Alternatives For Nerds
Schools should create nerd-friendly alternatives to the sensory overload and fascistic vibe of overhyped school spirit days
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The Problem With The Sleeping Beauty Problem
What is the problem with “The Sleeping Beauty Problem”? This video explains the history of the game theory experiment and offers a critique.
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State of School Translator from Head’s Secret Handbook
Secret advice to Heads of School for decoding the overly optimistic State of School report and what you need to know about Therapy Goats
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Why Expensive Campus Vanity Buildings Get Built
The Head’s Secret Handbook outlines why you don’t want to build that expensive vanity building but you will anyway
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Head’s Secret Handbook: 3 Types of Parent Whistelblowers
Richard E Rich Academy Head of School has secret tips for how to identify the three types of parents who are whistleblowers
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The Three Things That Happen On Every Committee
The Head’s Handbook explains that committees are usually dominated by a bully who covers up an underlying crime, sometimes involving raccoons
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The Four Types of Financial Aid Resentment
Everyone hates the financial aid process which is part of a rigged system enriching schools while stirring up resentment and bitterness.
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Everyone Hates Senior Superlatives
Public School Zero Superlatives include Most Likely To Never Be Mentioned in the Yearbook And Later to Become Rich and Famous. Perferendis, adipisicing sed repudiandae sit, habitant reiciendis tellus non enim necessitatibus penatibus. Repellat fringilla cras animi nostrud do laudantium urna diam torquent aliquam optio! Dolores auctor quis qui molestias magnam. Lacinia, metus libero, laborum…
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Academic Condolence Cards
Academic greeting cards for teachers on every occasion from not getting that travel grant to Paris to being rejected from a conference
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September School Run: Poem
The flight path/ Is over our/ School run route/ That morning/ It crosses/ Above us/ On my way/ Back from school/ The radio dies/ Right at the
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Faculty Dinner Party Menus Through the Decades
What was served at academic dinner parties decade by decade as told by a veteran server at the house of the President of Fred’s University
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Dear Butterscotch: Breastfeeding Catfight
Economics Professor objects to her younger millennial colleague breastfeeding her baby in the faculty lounge, gets schooled by Butterscotch
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Return To the History Department: Friday School Poem
When I’m dead I’ll enjoy/ Coming back to see/ What you’ve done to the place/ There was gin hidden in the closet/ With letterhead, Wite-Out and