Tom Gething
@thomgething.bsky.social
Father, husband, educator, immigrant. Lower School Director in NC. Certainty is overrated.
Can Anthropology and the Interpretive Disciplines Recover Rigor, Relevance, and Public Trust?
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Can Anthropology and the Interpretive Disciplines Recover Rigor, Relevance, and Public Trust?
Objectivity, Advocacy, Academic Legitimacy, and the Fight Over Scholarly Standards
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September 30, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Can Anthropology and the Interpretive Disciplines Recover Rigor, Relevance, and Public Trust?
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What Makes Education Educational?
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What Makes Education Educational?
What the Challenge of AI Reveals About Education
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August 23, 2026 at 12:40 PM
What Makes Education Educational?
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Will You Be Here Forever?
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Will You Be Here Forever?
How Individualism Broke the Chain Between Past and Future—and What We Still Pass On
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August 21, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Will You Be Here Forever?
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What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Language, Cognition, Creativity, and Understanding
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What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Language, Cognition, Creativity, and Understanding
How a Writer Who Knew Far Less Than Us Can Show Us Ways of Thinking We Are in Danger of Losing
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August 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Language, Cognition, Creativity, and Understanding
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"Stealing" Other Writers' Words
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Stealing Other Writers' Words
My childhood dream – or one of them, anyway, as I had a lot of dreams as a kid – was to be a comic book artist.
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August 5, 2026 at 11:26 AM
"Stealing" Other Writers' Words
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What makes sad music sad?
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What makes sad music sad?
On Appearance Emotionalism
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August 2, 2026 at 12:39 PM
What makes sad music sad?
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There is so much here that aligns with discussions in education around both teacher and student use of AI.
“We’re all hungry for a way to do the right thing”
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“We’re all hungry for a way to do the right thing”
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“We’re all hungry for a way to do the right thing”
Part 2 of an interview with Kirsten Davis
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July 27, 2026 at 10:34 AM
There is so much here that aligns with discussions in education around both teacher and student use of AI.
“We’re all hungry for a way to do the right thing”
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“We’re all hungry for a way to do the right thing”
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Beyond Critical Theory
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Beyond Critical Theory
How the Great Theories of the Twentieth Century Became Institutional Common Sense, and What Comes After
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July 26, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Beyond Critical Theory
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Working memory: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Working memory
Working memory refers to the system or systems that are assumed to be necessary in
order to keep things in mind while performing complex tasks such as reasoning, comprehension
and learning. Over the l...
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July 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Music, bereavement and healing
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Music, bereavement and healing
I wrote this article 22 years ago, but in the wake of a friend's death I've felt moved to salvage it and put it out there again as it could still be helpful
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July 8, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Music, bereavement and healing
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Indicators -- especially theory-derived ones -- of consciousness simply aren't enough. Signatures aren't enough either. We need a whole new evidential and inferential framework.
My group is building one.
Sneak peak roadmap paper, currently in revision so stay tuned for v2: osf.io/preprints/ps...
My group is building one.
Sneak peak roadmap paper, currently in revision so stay tuned for v2: osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 7, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Indicators -- especially theory-derived ones -- of consciousness simply aren't enough. Signatures aren't enough either. We need a whole new evidential and inferential framework.
My group is building one.
Sneak peak roadmap paper, currently in revision so stay tuned for v2: osf.io/preprints/ps...
My group is building one.
Sneak peak roadmap paper, currently in revision so stay tuned for v2: osf.io/preprints/ps...
The Death of the Middlebrow Musical
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The Death of the Middlebrow Musical
Schmigadoon!, the American Musical’s Golden Age, and the Decline of Democratic Ambition in American Art
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July 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
The Death of the Middlebrow Musical
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On American Excellence
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On American Excellence
Anthony Burgess visits Washington D.C.
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July 3, 2026 at 11:10 AM
On American Excellence
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The Unfinished Revolution—and the Creed We No Longer Believe
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The Unfinished Revolution—and the Creed We No Longer Believe
How America Lost Faith in the Democratic, Egalitarian, and Liberal-Republican Ideals of 1776
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July 3, 2026 at 11:02 AM
The Unfinished Revolution—and the Creed We No Longer Believe
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📻 Listen to an in-depth discussion between Mark Lowther and BBC Radio 3's Andrew McGregor about the huge range of recorded performances of RVW's 4th Symphony.
First performed in 1935, its austerity seems to presage the looming horror of World War II...
First performed in 1935, its austerity seems to presage the looming horror of World War II...
Record Review Podcast - Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony - BBC Sounds
Mark Lowther gives his ultimate recommendation for Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony.
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June 30, 2026 at 10:13 AM
📻 Listen to an in-depth discussion between Mark Lowther and BBC Radio 3's Andrew McGregor about the huge range of recorded performances of RVW's 4th Symphony.
First performed in 1935, its austerity seems to presage the looming horror of World War II...
First performed in 1935, its austerity seems to presage the looming horror of World War II...
Reposted by Tom Gething
We think of ancient Greek philosophy as not particularly concerned with the home or the role of women, but this, it turns out, may be mostly an accident of history – and we just need to learn to read the right sources, writes the French philosopher Sandrine Bergès in this Essay
What ancient philosophy really thought about domestic life | Aeon Essays
The household is a community, as much as the state, and ancient philosophy had much more to say about it than we think
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June 12, 2026 at 10:15 AM
We think of ancient Greek philosophy as not particularly concerned with the home or the role of women, but this, it turns out, may be mostly an accident of history – and we just need to learn to read the right sources, writes the French philosopher Sandrine Bergès in this Essay
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June 11, 2026 at 11:13 AM
The use of context in assessment
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The use of context in assessment
Why an exam paper is not all that different to a practical task
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June 7, 2026 at 1:59 PM
The use of context in assessment
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Dances of Sorrow, Dances of Hope
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Dances of Sorrow, Dances of Hope
Black Cultural Expression and the Search for the Sacred in American Life
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June 6, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Dances of Sorrow, Dances of Hope
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Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes: The Musical
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Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes: The Musical
Ancient Athens, Student Theater, and the Uses of Art in Turbulent Times
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April 27, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes: The Musical
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