November

28 11, 2016

Memory’s saving grace

By |2016-11-28T07:07:32-05:00November 28th, 2016|2016, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Literature, November, psychology, Quotes, Writing|0 Comments

Memory's saving grace: how history, carried in deep recollection, can rescue us in adversity. Meantime they were strolling slowly along the path and suddenly Smurov exclaimed: “There's Ilusha's stone, under which they wanted to bury him.” They all stood still by the big stone. Alyosha looked and the whole picture of what Snegiryov had described [...]

23 11, 2016

Medicine, morality, and suffering

By |2022-07-28T09:10:53-04:00November 23rd, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, Europe, health, Language, mathematics, Medicine, November, Philosophy, Quotes, Writing|0 Comments

Medicine, morality, and suffering: what can experience teach us about medical objectivity? “There is no real difference between a warm, snug study and this ward,” said Andrey Yefimitch. “A man's peace and contentment do not lie outside a man, but in himself.” “What do you mean?” “The ordinary man looks for good and evil [...]

20 11, 2016

Nursery rhymes and brain development (Pallab Ghosh, BBC)

By |2016-11-19T07:37:27-05:00November 20th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, education, Europe, Everything Else, health, Language, News, November, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Nursery rhymes and brain development: "baby talk" of parents brings children in sync with their brain waves, helping them learn. From the article: The early indications are that when the brain waves of mothers and babies are out of sync, the babies learn less well. But when the two sets of brainwaves are in tune [...]

15 11, 2016

The human difference? (David Robson, BBC)

By |2016-11-14T17:55:47-05:00November 15th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Journalism, Language, News, November, psychology, science|0 Comments

The human difference? Perhaps the humanities: fluid language and historical sensibility. From the article: The first astonishing fact is that we can speak at all, of course. No matter what you’ve been thinking and feeling throughout the day, you will be able to find words to express the experience and describe it to those around [...]

13 11, 2016

Technology’s cost, humanity’s price

By |2016-11-17T10:43:32-05:00November 13th, 2016|2016, Debate / dialogue, Europe, History, Language, November, Philosophy, poetry, Politics, Quotes, science, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Technology's cost, humanity's price: whether we understand the ways technology asserts its influence even over our most basic self-understanding Modern science and the total state, as necessary consequences of the nature of technology, are also its attendants. The same holds true of the means and forms that are set up for the organization of public [...]

10 11, 2016

The same wavelength: how language stimulates our minds in similar ways (Ushma Patel, News at Princeton)

By |2016-11-09T18:24:40-05:00November 10th, 2016|2016, Academia, Everything Else, Language, News, November, science|0 Comments

The same wavelength: how language stimulates the brains of speakers and listeners in similar ways. Prof. Uri Hasson of Princeton, a philosophy undergraduate major, studies the complexity of understanding with imagination and magnetic resonance imaging. From the article: On average, the listener's brain responses mirrored the speaker's brain responses with some time delays. The delays [...]

8 11, 2016

Platinum, poetry, and the past: using science to imagine the poet’s response to history

By |2016-11-08T09:06:15-05:00November 8th, 2016|2016, Arts, Debate / dialogue, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Literature, November, poetry, Quotes, Writing|0 Comments

Platinum, poetry, and the past: using science to imagine the poet's response to history Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.... In the last article I tried to point out the importance of the relation of the poem to other poems by other authors, and suggested the conception [...]

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