Keith “Maggie” Brown

  • Yen Hui’s progress

    Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: We read in The Inner Chapters of Yen Hui’s progress. He had given up ‘doing good and being right,’ but Confucius tells him this is ‘not quite enough.’ He goes away and returns. He had given up… Continue reading

    Yen Hui’s progress
  • Centered and Whole

    Finding new metrics of success is not just for women. It is for women and men who want to be whole, centered, and happy human beings. That means being whole in mind and body, reason and emotion, work and family.… Continue reading

    Centered and Whole
  • (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising

    Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my… Continue reading

    (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
  • Authority and Laxity

    Continuing the translations of the incomplete manuscripts of the middle-years of Li-Dan‘s long life… ———————- In the  morning of the last day he walked beneath the Yingke Pines, the Lord Māotóuyīng, Baronet of Wēishìjì, turned with purpose, yea even concern, to… Continue reading

    Authority and Laxity
  • Twilighting Idolatries

    Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading

    Twilighting Idolatries
  • House of God

    Awesomeness. Shake my sisters and brothers of the Ether… Shake it! Related articles New Dub Gabriel Album Out Today! (midnightraverblog.com) Demo: Jack the Reaper steals your heart and soul in this SNES-inspired platformer (indiegames.com) The Eater of Worlds:HERO Chapter 8… Continue reading

    House of God
  • Poem for Kris

    as said by them sages, “just so” just so-just so-just so non-interference with the flow forgoing and slowing forgoing all knowing when we see “to – be” just sewing-just sewing-just sewing Related articles Flowing / Swaying (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 25 (keithwaynebrown.com) Body… Continue reading

    Poem for Kris
  • Flowing / Swaying

    Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an… Continue reading

    Flowing / Swaying
  • We need a new dialogue between physics and philosophy – The Guardian

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsWe need a new dialogue between physics and philosophy The Guardian In his article (Philosophy isn’t dead yet, 27 May) Raymond Tallis raises some important and difficult issues about the extent to which contemporary physics… Continue reading

  • Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study reveals that immigrants’ contributions to Medicare generated a $115 billion surplus from 2002 to 2009. I am glad to see a study was at last accomplished to demonstrate what common sense… Continue reading

    Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare
  • How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “There are two ways to think about connectivity on Twitter:… Continue reading

    How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
  • Controlling for Cosmopolis

    Jose Ortega y Gasset points out that the term “emperor’ means “the one who goes to where the border begins”. The Latin word is related to the Spanish verb empezar (to begin). An Imperator was a general who kept whole the… Continue reading

    Controlling for Cosmopolis
  • The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics!     Teri Shaffer Yamada Jeffrey J. Selingo, Editor at Large at the Chronicle of Higher Education, has extensive experience with the politics of … Keith Wayne Brown‘s… Continue reading

    The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics
  • New STAR WARS: RECLAMATION Series Holds Clues to EPISODE VII  – News – GeekTyrant

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The first few pages of a story and character bible for a new series called Star Wars: Reclamation were posted on IMDB that not only give us some details on what the series will… Continue reading

    New STAR WARS: RECLAMATION Series Holds Clues to EPISODE VII  – News – GeekTyrant
  • Major Players in the MOOC Universe

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Explore connections among the industry’s major players. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum. Most… Continue reading

    Major Players in the MOOC Universe
  • Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to… Continue reading

    Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
  • Faculty eCommons Rethinking Your Online Classroom with Connectivism » Faculty eCommons

    Preparing for an independent scholar meeting this morning on the continuing issues of the digital divide, decided to read up a little more on connectivist theory of education, and I stumbled on this very succinct and well written piece by… Continue reading