On Sunday, Nov. 4, the Diana Wortham Theater opened its doors to the exploration of ideas — TEDxAsheville. Xpress staffer Jordan Foltz attended. Here, he shares his personal observations. (In this photo, presenter Katie Spotz — who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean — speaks at the event. Photo by Matthew Abrams.)
It’s not that the “The 7 Billionth Person on Earth” was an offensive, controversial or even inaccurate article, it was just plain superfluous [“Edgy Mama,” Nov. 9 Xpress]. Couldn’t something have been communicated in a half-page more than just a slew of inanimate statistics that we all know? If you ask me, statistics are about […]
I am perennially disappointed by the stunted anthropocentric values of what our media perpetuates in this culture. Journalists and scientists have somehow confined themselves to a limited forum whereby they only feel their story or research will be taken seriously if it addresses data with respect to its relevance for our current economic paradigm or […]
