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What Happened to Jordan Peterson? | The New Republic:
The Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson has been described as “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world.” He is an exponent of the Jungian concept of the hero’s journey, in which an ordinary person heeds a call to adventure and goes out into the world to struggle and suffer, only to return with heightened self-knowledge. (He has described himself, without apparent irony, as being “raised and toughened in the frigid wastelands of Northern Alberta.”) His stern ethos of self-help and bootstrapping has made him a darling of the so-called intellectual dark web, and a gateway drug for countless budding right-wingers who have stumbled upon one of his lectures on YouTube.
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So it was something of a surprise to learn, in early February, that Peterson had spent eight days in a medically induced coma at an unnamed clinic in Russia.
University has an in-house sangoma!:
A SANGOMA hired by the University of KZN to assist students has called on parents to tell their kids who their real fathers are.
The SunTeam visited sangoma Philile Mkhize at her offices on the Durban campus yesterday.
The 39-year-old, known as Makhosi on campus, said a common problem among students was that they didn’t know who they really were.
She said she saw between 15 and 20 students a day and most told her their mothers wouldn’t say who their real fathers were or what their surnames were.
She said the issue was so serious that students could end up dropping out and living on the streets.
How to describe characters in a children’s book (with free crib sheet):
PRO TIP: When describing any aspect of a character, whether it’s her complexion or what haunts his dreams, think about what it means.
And remember, you are listing the character’s attributes on the crib sheet. In the manuscript, you’ll want to infer many of those attributes by what the character does, by what other characters observe about her and by other storytelling techniques, rather than just saying what that characteristic is.
Think about how you can convey personality through each characteristic. For instance, think of the personality conjured up by the names “Snape” and “Slithering”, or what Snape’s greasy hair implies about his personality.
On the other hand, keep in mind the age you are targeting. The younger the audience, the less you can infer. For very young children, you’ll have to be more direct.
