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Want to Take a Free Computer Course?

Stanford University – Human-Computer Interaction Course This course was supposed to start in January – but now, after delaying and delaying, I got this notice that the course was going to start in a few days! Of course I signed up for it. Want to join me there[ READ MORE ]

A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity

NY Times Costa Rica has its own nutritional experts, they are college graduates and you can find then in any town – but they are useless. American experts study how the body actually works – which is often far different from how it should act, in theory. His conclusion is: It’s something very simple, very obvious, something [ READ MORE ]

Wind Map

Wind Map is the brainchild of Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, the co-leaders of Google’s ‘Big Picture’ visualization research group in Cambridge, Mass. Interesting![ READ MORE ]

Individuation

On this subject Emerson and Lewis Mumford are in agreement. Mumford, writing much later, does a better job of it. I have broken up two long paragraphs from his The Condition of Man. on page 7, to make them more digestible online. Man’s life differs from that of most other organizations in that individuation has become more important to [ READ MORE ]

March 13 1868 Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial Begins

Reblogged from Craig Hill: On March 13th 1868, for the first time in US history, the impeachment trial of an American president got underway in the US Senate. President Andrew Johnson, reviled by the Republican-dominated Congress for his views on Reconstruction, stood accused of having violated the controversial Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress [ READ MORE ]

The Lord is a Man of War

In Exodus, after the Hebrews cross the Red Sea, which closes behind them and drowns the Egyptians, there is a victory song that is quite unlike anything else in the Bible. Harold Bloom gives four different translations, but concludes the King James version is the best – which is not surprising, since it builds on the [ READ MORE ]

The 4- to 14-Year-Old Window: Turning Children Into Evangelists in Public Schools

Truthout I’m not sure what to make of Truthout; they seem to be going all kinds of ways at once. And most of those ways do not grab me. I just made a $20 donation to them, which gave me a chance to look at how their internal software was organized. At first I was [ READ MORE ]

Disposable Youth

Amazon sent me a notice about this new book this morning: Facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation, young people are caught between the discourses of consumerism and a powerful crime-control-complex, and are viewed increasingly as commodities or are subjected to the dictates of an ever expanding criminal justice system. Drawing upon critical analyses, biography, [ READ MORE ]

The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard

Audible Brigadier Gerard- Wikipedia This could easily be a Christmas present to yourself. It is one of the lesser-known writings of Arthur Conan Doyle. I had never heard of it before, but throughly enjoyed listening to it. These stories are entertainment, pure and simple. Wikipedia calls them comic short stories, but I found them adventure stories [ READ MORE ]

Helplessness and Grandiosity

These have been two of the main forces in my life. Like many other things, their opposition expresses a unity; they are part of the same thing, opposite sides of the same coin. Grandiosity is so common it is, in the right amounts, socially acceptable – and we don’t even notice it. It even has a [ READ MORE ]

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