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The slim chances of getting on tenure track without an “elite” school PhD
This is why I am keeping my PhD studies oriented toward these targets: (1) becoming a coffee consultant, (2) setting up a practice as a philosophical counselor, and (3) looking for a job in the academy. Why do folks sign up… Continue reading
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Solitude: The Most Underestimated Self-Development Necessity
Montaigne, the great French writer, said that “we must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude”. Source: www.linkedin.com Continue reading
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The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever Seen
The most thunderstruck I’ve ever been by art was before the 13,000-year-old cave paintings of mammals in Niaux, France. Source: www.vulture.com Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | Brain Pickings
Carl Sagan saw in books “proof that humans are capable of working magic.” The magic of humanity’s most enduring books — the great works of literature and philosophy — lies in the simple fact that they are full of hope… Continue reading
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Extracting a Mean for the Coffee Bean
Australian Barista-Philosopher Matt Perger philosophizes on the sense of “evenness” when talking about coffee extraction: Throughout my Barista career, so many of my teachers and peers have told me to extract evenly. “Don’t do x or the extraction won’t be… Continue reading
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ear nose and throat
Originally posted on coromandal: The elephant’s trunk isn’t the elephant and the elephant isn’t tree-like; these misapprehensions are the pitfalls of specialization. To really know the elephant must be divine, and will require knowing more than one body part. It’s the… Continue reading
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Thomas Merton on Being an Intellectual, and a Message to the Poets
Originally posted on Jeremy D. Johnson: Thomas Merton was born today, January 31st in 1915. A January baby, like me. Merton was a Christian monastic, whose tremendously popular autobiographic The Seven Story Mountain (1948) made him a well known and well read American… Continue reading
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Žižek and ecology
A series wherein Slavoj Žižek maintains ecology is the new opiate of the masses. Continue reading
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