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12, 2015
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12, 2015
Joseph Conrad’s Terrorist
The stoicism of his thought could not be disturbed by this or any other failure. Next time, or the time after next, a telling stroke would be delivered – something really startling – a blow fit to open the first crack in the imposing front of the great edifice of legal conceptions sheltering the atrocious [...]
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11, 2015
More defense of the liberal arts
Humanities majors have skills
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11, 2015
Thinking and Thanking
Rabbit: What are you doing, Hare? Hare: Nothing much, it seems. Rabbit: Ah, the dolce far niente again. It must be your modus vivendi. Hare: There's nothing like a mixture of languages to get me going. So what are you doing? Rabbit: Well, it's harvest season. I'm busy preparing for winter. Every day there seems more to do. [...]
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11, 2015
The Oak
The angry north wind proved its strength one stormy night on a noble oak tree. Now it stood racked, and a great many lower branches lay shattered under it. A fox, which had its hollow nearby, saw it the next morning. "What a tree!" it exclaimed. "I would have never thought it was so large!" Gotthold [...]
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11, 2015
On Welding and Philosophy
Debating the fusion of politics, philosophy, and manufacturing
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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.