critical thinking

I have decided to start this "definition" to, as so often is the case, collate information. 

From https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/10/post-no-3303-news-and-commentary-from.html:    

The importance of critical thinking ... and not giving it to AI (my high school physics teacher in the 70s taught us about centripetal force ... and then jumped into how that could be used to get the last sauce out of a bottle, and why hadn't we thought of that? Well, we hadn't thought of that because the teaching was so strongly contextually implied as being only for science that we had barriers created to even thinking of this anywhere else. I am gravely concerned that however critical thinking is being taught, it is being done in a similarly limiting implied context that is stopping people using critical thinking an thus being vulnerable to scams, etc. We need to change how critical thinking is taught so that is actively learned as something to be used everywhere ... );       “What if Darwin was wrong? The case for the survival of the wisest” from this economist;      

From the ending of most of my blog posts: 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

Some other links: 

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search?q=%22critical+thinking%22   

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/critical%20thinking   

 

And from the Internet: 

• https://theconversation.com/au/search?q=critical+thinking    

• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-thinking/   

• https://www.monash.edu/student-academic-success/enhance-your-thinking/critical-thinking/what-is-critical-thinking   

• https://www.coursera.org/articles/critical-thinking-skills   

• https://www.scribbr.com/working-with-sources/critical-thinking/   

• https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766   

• https://asana.com/resources/critical-thinking-skills   

• https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/curriculum-information/understand-this-general-capability/critical-and-creative-thinking   

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-thinking   

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Critical_thinking&oldid=1317513496    

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toxic femininity

This has become a more pressing topic under the the US regime of year 2025 (at time of writing), and will be a collection point for links, beginning with: 

• “[M_ G_] star [K____ M_l l_r]’s new podcast reeks of toxic femininity. I listened so you don’t have to”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/14/k____-m__ll__r-podcast       

 

Here are a few other links, but first, I want to make clear that I consider these more internalised misogyny than toxic femininity. For me, the line is crossed in to toxic femininity when the behaviours are used to harm others - as is clearly the case with the link above. Be that as it may, here are a few other links for your consideration: 

• https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/toxic-femininity   

• https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-toxic-femininity-5222736    

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-sexuality-and-romance/201908/toxic-femininity   

• https://www.shethriveshere.com/blog/toxic-femininity-internalised-misogyny   

• https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/is_it_really_helpful_to_talk_about_toxic_femininity   

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internalized_sexism&oldid=1304519532    

 

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tolerance is a social construct (or a peace treaty)

See   https://conversational-leadership.net/tolerance-is-a-social-contract/   

See also: 

As a rewording/variation to the “tolerance is a social contract” idea, an argument that “tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty” - and it turns out there is a scale for measuring tolerance.  

 

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social Darwinism

See   “Post No. 3,107 - War, authoritarian abuses, cruelty, and the evil of social darwinism”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/05/post-no-3107-war-authoritarian-abuses.html     

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Robert Reich

As I refer to writings by Robert Reich quite a bit - particularly in the current (2025) world crisis, I have created this post so I do not have to look up these links every time: 

Main links: 

• https://rbreich.com/  
  

• https://robertreich.substack.com/   

• https://www.youtube.com/@RBReich   

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Reich&oldid=1284299291   

Books, articles, etc 

• https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/author/B000AQ51FI  
  

 

My mentions of Robert Reich: 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/search?q=Robert+Reich  
  

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search?q=Robert+Reich  

For my original writing ONLY on this blog: 

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(Professor) Timothy Snyder

As I refer to writings by Professor Timothy Snyder quite a bit in the current (2025) world crisis, I have created this post so I do not have to look up these links every time: 

Main links: 

• https://timothysnyder.org/   including   https://timothysnyder.org/bio/  
  

• https://substack.com/@snyder   

• https://history.yale.edu/people/timothy-snyder   

• https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timothy-snyder   

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Timothy_Snyder&oldid=1285221866   

Books, articles, etc 

• https://timothysnyder.org/books/   

• https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/243930.Timothy_Snyder   
  

• https://www.readersvibe.com/author/timothy-snyder-2648  
  

• https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/timothy-snyder   

• Kobo search result (very long URL, don't appear to have an author's page)    

• https://books.apple.com/us/author/timothy-snyder/id348577305   

• https://www.amazon.com.au/stores/Timothy-Snyder/author/B001H6N9K4  
  

 

• https://timothysnyder.org/academic-work/   

• https://www.theatlantic.com/author/timothy-snyder/   

 

My mentions of Professor Snyder: 

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search?q=snyder   

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/search?q=snyder  
  

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toxic individualism

See 

“What if we asked, “Are you okay?” Reclaim community from toxic individualism”   https://youtu.be/bujCmdYYPlc   Evidently this creator hasn’t heard of RU OK?, but, in context of helping a stranger on a train (which inspired this video), it is worth a view and a think and maybe an implement ...      

 

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the “Correllian Book of the Dead”

This is a book I strongly recommend. For more see: 

Post No. 2,999 - the “Correllian Book of the Dead”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/01/post-no-2999-correllian-book-of-dead.html     

 

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(the) work of this blog

This is a phrase I use fairly often, so I thought I would create this as a quick link for me to use as a reminder of what the key aspects of that are: 

clearing nonBPM nonphysical  units,   BPM  healing,   and   BPM  strengthening of BPM units

 

Also see the “Correllian Book of the Dead”   

 

 

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