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Keep Calm The Doctor Will Save Us

ObMayanApocalypse Thread

By tigtog on December 21, 2012

Of course The Doctor will save us – how else can we watch this year’s Xmas special? Or go and see The Hobbit on Boxing Day?

Posted in arts & entertainment, crisis, Sociology | Tagged apocalypse, doctor-who, TEOTWAWKI, tropes | 5 Responses

Nurse practitioners not actually TEOTWAWKI* - yay!

Nurse practitioners not actually TEOTWAWKI* – yay!

By tigtog on November 1, 2010

The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) says its research shows Australians were comfortable with the newly expanded role to be taken on by specially trained nurses.

Posted in ethics & philosophy, health | Tagged social change, TEOTWAWKI | 31 Responses

Twitter is TEOTWAWKI: Tech Culture Wars

By Lauredhel on September 26, 2009

Tigtog has been blogging about how, contrary to Chicken Little predictions of electronic media being the end of literacy worldwide, children today are better writers than ever before. I was just watching this interview on “The Twitter Revolution”, Chuck Klosterman on Break Room Live. The interviewer’s critiques of Twitter: – With the amount of information [...]

Posted in Culture, Sociology, technology | Tagged blogging, facebook, new media, social change, technology, TEOTWAWKI, twitter

Quick Hit: Willetts: Bridget Jones + working women = TEOTWAWKI

By Lauredhel on September 30, 2008

David Willetts, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, at a UK Conservative Party conference: “Bridget Jones is a real phenomenon, driven partly by the way the pattern of university education is changing. For the first time, in a historic experiment in our society, we have more women than men emerging from university. [...]

Posted in culture wars, economics, gender & feminism, Politics, social justice | Tagged bigotry, patriarchy, TEOTWAWKI | 11 Responses

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