Again, the Connecticut Mirror has a report on the state of new rules in Connecticut education. It has a ring of the Keystone Cops. It’s really about how to do proper division. But as Neruda writes about in his poetry, what is proper is almost never understood And so I left, keeping my silence. That [...]
Somini Sengupta’s article in today’s New York Times asks how to make gold out of Facebook’s Big Data pile. Indeed, in all my newsy feeds, a top story (I assume the world of news on finance has grown boring over the years) has to do with Facebook’s valuation. Is it $10 Billion or $100 Billion? [...]
Most items for the semester’s end are done. It was a speedy and bizarre term, with a few interesting experiments, especially in World Literature and Digital Narrative. Now to ready up for the summer session. Currently gathering new articles and updating assessment. But the real work will be school of my own, digging back into [...]
This article in The Connecticut Mirror by Jaqueline Rabe Thomas covers some of the flurry of legislation pertaining to Higher Ed in Connecticut. I must say that SB40 and other bills came at us fast and many faculty and staff at my college were deeply involved, to the degree that access was provided to legislators [...]
April 17, 2012 – 11:34 am
This is the subject of the upcoming Proof and Possibility series talk, brought to us by Jesse Abbot and Rabbi Howard Herman: Wednesday, April 18th at 7PM in 6-127/128, a room so big it has two numbers, a room just large enough to contain such big ideas.
More from Hemon on narrative Narrative imagination—and therefore fiction—was a basic evolutionary tool of survival. We processed the world by telling stories, produced human knowledge through our engagement with imagined selves.
From Alexsander Hamon’s The Aquarium It is not unusual, of course, for children of Ella’s age to have imaginary friends or siblings. The creation of an imaginary character is related, I believe, to the explosion of linguistic abilities that occurs between the ages of two and four, and rapidly creates an excess of language, which [...]
Wow. Amazing material: More Ryan Andrews.
There are a couple of big differences between the heath and food markets. It’s pretty simple. Everyone already participates in food; that’s why apples are relatively cheap. One cannot opt out. Not even inmates, as there are already legal precedents for this. If a supermarket chain decided to charge 100 bucks for a unit of [...]
This article by David C. Levy is strangled by personal opinion. To cal something a myth is a pretty big charge, like claiming that it’s a myth that bats fly at night. A piece of evidence for this might be that bats fly at night is a myth because observers are sleeping. I like this [...]
This tongue’n’cheek bit in the Guardian titled Atheists please read comes with several consequentialities. Julian Baggini writes We are heathens because we have not been saved by God and because in the absence of divine revelation, we are in so many ways deeply unenlightened. The main difference between us and the religious is that we [...]
A friend sends me to Zopler, a tool for facilitating collaborative storytelling. Then there’s IBM’s new terabit chip, an interesting view into a future of industry building and naming conventions (Holey Optochip). Then there’s the AppBuilder. And soon to get into Bootstrap.
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
Time to do some housekeeping
Yes, around here.