On Welding and Philosophy
Debating the fusion of politics, philosophy, and manufacturing
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11, 2015
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11, 2015
The Temple of Daily Fame
Journalists have erected for themselves a small wooden chapel that they call the Temple of Fame, in which they continuously affix and remove portraits, making such a racket that one cannot hear oneself speak. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
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11, 2015
STEM talks
Grundlos: Watch out, you almost ran me over! Where are you rushing off to? Magnus: I'm off to give a talk and I'm in a hurry. Grundlos: What is the talk about? You're not very dressed up. Magnus: Look, that's not necessary. It's about the meaning of STEM. Grundlos: What is STEM? Magnus: Don't you [...]
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11, 2015
The Humanities must unite or die
Humanities folks need to hang together or ....
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11, 2015
Language and the sciences
How language lends itself to the sciences.
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10, 2015
The peasant and the vine
Seeing how useful the vine was, the peasant supported it at a height with many props. Then, once he had harvested its grapes, he raised the stakes and let it fall, building a fire with the props. Leonardo da Vinci, Fables
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10, 2015
Love and moral progress
If genuine love for a young man or for a woman does not seek witnesses, but reaps its harvest of pleasure even if it fulfills its desires in secret, then it is even more likely that someone who loves goodness and wisdom, who is intimate and involved with virtue because of his actions, will be [...]
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10, 2015
Socrates on the periphery
That Socrates knew how to speak from the periphery to encounter the riddles of life.
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10, 2015
Rabbits and hares
The rabbit said to the hare: "Hey there, you're always doing nothing and sleeping. Are you doing that in order to appear contemplative?" "And you," the hare said, "are you doing nothing by always working?" The rabbit replied, "As long as both of us, therefore, wish to appear to have little leisure, we follow our natures. It [...]
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10, 2015
Liberal Arts and Cutting-Edge Work (Fast Company, September 2015)
How can you study what you love—say, classical Persian poetry—and still get a job when you graduate, not to mention a career for the long-term?