2016-05-10 19:32
From brainpickings: "Bruner notes that the Western scientific and philosophical worldview has been largely concerned with the question of how to know truth, whereas storytellers are concerne… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
From Garrison Keillor's amazing The Writer's Almanac (everyone should subscribe!): In his 1948 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in literature, T.S. Eliot said: "Partly through his influ… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Now this is funny, especially if you are a member of Tribe Geek:According to Singh, many people on Facebook list their school as Hogwarts, the wizardry school from the Harry Potter series. B… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
One of my favorite lines in modern rock is in Midnight Oil's "Blue Sky Mine": "Who's gonna save me? Who's gonna save me?/I pray that sense and reason brings us in/(Who's gonna save me? Who's… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This is a terrific quotation from Richard Feynman on the nature of scientific knowledge, and specifically the necessity for skepticism. My paraphrase: There is always room for doubt. If the… Read More
2016-01-19 00:45
If we are going to thrive as a diverse society, and in the U.S. we are already succeeding beyond the level of most other attempts on this Earth, we must as individuals and communities expect… Read More
2014-06-12 16:27
"Decisions...in this moment...are based in either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and rid… Read More
2014-06-10 05:41
At this point in the essay, Orwell is considering whether Gandhi was a lovable man, in addition to being a good one. I have bolded a couple of fine instances of Orwell's acerbic humor."The a… Read More
2013-04-14 23:51
I'm a fan of Melissa McCarthy. I thought her character-acting in Bridesmaids carried the otherwise sappy and formulaic film. And I like a big girl who is beautiful and can hold her own, with… Read More
2013-04-03 14:09
Simon Poe shared this with the VICTORIA-L academic discussion list, and I thought it deserved a wider audience. The discussion was prompted by a review of the recent Pre-Raphaelite art exhib… Read More
2013-03-14 14:41
"Throw all enemies into the caldron, break their waists and crack their windpipes." -- Kim Jong Un, North Korea (March 11, 2013, in a televised addr… Read More
2012-10-09 15:23
The question under debate? Whether suffrage (the vote) was to be given to all men or just to landowners. "For really I think that the poorest hee that is in England hath a life to live, as t… Read More
2011-12-02 11:46
Пт, 00:17: Too bad this old guy's no longer with us. Video will. nzafro http://t.co/TgXqkiPY Read More
2011-12-01 01:00
Museum studies, as a field, has made us conscious of the curation of culture, and the ways in which this curation operates semiotically. If one takes an everyday object and mounts it within… Read More
2011-11-29 17:21
From an interview by Andrew Edgcliffe-Johnson with Indie cult director and legendary bad boy John Waters: "Will the counterculture win, I ask? “Counterculture won some things a long ti… Read More
2011-11-24 18:04
Wed, 12:43: BBC News - Jawbones are 'shaped by diet', a study finds http://t.co/gfeCT3w7 Wed, 12:46: BBC News - Secret net Tor asks users to sign up to cloud services http://t.co/u6uNVURq… Read More
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