Keith “Maggie” Brown
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Research impact: We need negative metrics too
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook, Kelli Barr and I had a letter published this week at Nature. Exciting for a humble daoist anarchocynic like myself. The correspondence also contains a link to a slightly revised version of our original submission.… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 9
Dozing content on mid-may morning Cool pillow against my cheek Iced coffee just enough to keep me from going back into dreamland Birds squawking at the humid heat Sun bright, day brilliant Writing thinking planning ———————- My futon is tight… Continue reading
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Why Rituals Work: Scientific American
“Recent research suggests that rituals may be more rational than they appear. Why? Because even simple rituals can be extremely effective. Rituals performed after experiencing losses – from loved ones to lotteries – do alleviate grief, and rituals performed before… Continue reading
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Challenge, don’t worship, the chiefs and high priestesses of science
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Alice Bell: If we don’t recognise the politics of science, we will just get played by those who do Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "…Play into a game of hierarchies, and even if you don’t… Continue reading
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The new addiction to an “old” medium.
What we watch is changing how we watch. And how we watch now across many forms of media and via many kinds of recording and/or through streaming is changing how creative types are creating for us. But the name for… Continue reading
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Futurity.org – Carnivorous plant trims its tiny genome
The new study offers an unexpected insight: the large majority of noncoding DNA, which is abundant in many living things, may not actually be needed for complex life, according to research set to appear in Nature. The clues lie in… Continue reading
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Etymology of “Wanderlust”
With the German verb wandern literally meaning “to hike,” the literal definition of the compounded “wanderlust” is a “desire to hike” although it has been colloquially appropriated to encompass strollers and roamers in a looser sense. http://nowheremag.com/2013/04/etymology-of-wanderlust/ Continue reading
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Body 4: Disembodied Nature
Newest issue of Disembodied Text is out. Take a look see. The poetry, the music, the art pieces… really speaking to me this morning. Hat off to the editors, Kiki and Chris, for a great compilation. Body 4: Disembodied Nature… Continue reading
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Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright | ROAR Magazine
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity. See on roarmag.org Continue reading
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Withdrawing
Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster… Continue reading
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Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley | Video on TED.com
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. See on www.ted.com Continue reading
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Flute مزمار
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