Keith “Maggie” Brown
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What is the Easiest Practice?
Originally posted on How To Practice Zen: What could be easier than just letting go? If we had nothing to hold on to, nothing to reach for, nothing to drop, what would that be like? What about dropping opinions about politics? Sports?… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 7
Anything done to excess opens the door to more excesses. The spiral downward–slow or fast–can only be arrested with real moderation born of bold honesty. Any Existenz who lies to himself with the con game of “I am NOT an… Continue reading
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Norse Energy Corp. v. Town of Dryden: Court upholds New York town’s fracking ban.
New piece at Slate by my friend & colleague Adam Briggle. For a while, it looked like we were scraping the bottom of Earth’s barrel of fossil fuels. Then along came hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, and now some… Continue reading
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Keeping the Humanities Vibrant
My good colleague Robert Frodeman and his friend Chris Buczinsky take a crack at rethinking how to keep the humanities something that resonates to 21st Century students. In “Howl,” a blistering poetical rant and perhaps the most important poem of… Continue reading
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Connectivism: Theory, Hypothesis, or Description?
You can imagine my surprise that when I started to read around this notion of connectivism, I started off thinking that it was indeed “a learning theory for the digital age” (Siemens, 2005) to conclude that in its current form, the… Continue reading
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A Psyche the Size of Earth ~ James Hillman
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions There is only one core issue for all of psychology. Where is the “me”? Where does the “me” begin? Where does the “me” stop? Where does the “other” begin? For most of its history, psychology… Continue reading
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Precautionary – Proactionary
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores… Continue reading
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Welcoming a Friend to WordPress
My good colleague and friend J. Britt Holbrook has started up his new blog. I hope everyone will take a peek and give him some follows as well as some thoughtful feedback/commentary. While I have made my blog more of… Continue reading
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Rolling Stone on how the Illuminati is maybe not so impossible
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is… Continue reading
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The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
My colleague Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration is… Continue reading
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The Unsurprising Rarity of Homo Economicus
“SOVEREIGN in tastes, steely-eyed and point-on in perception of risk, and relentless in maximisation of happiness.” This was Daniel McFadden’s memorable summation, in 2006, of the idea of Everyman held by economists. That this description is unlike any real person… Continue reading
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How Big Business Robs Us With “Externalities”
A lot of folks go around talking about the efficiency of corporations and businesses based on the size of their profit margins. They often cite this as evidence that these busyness people really know how to do things the right… Continue reading
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Daodejing 28
#28* Knowing power, abiding in modesty; like a stream under Heaven. Like a stream under Heaven- never abandoning eternal virtue, returning at last to purity. Knowing white, abiding in black; like this order under Heaven. Like this order under Heaven-… Continue reading
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multiple versions of regret
Wonderful meditative poem on the beauty of some regrets. Amen! Related articles Self Written Poem (randalldeanscott.wordpress.com) Alcibiades 7 (keithwaynebrown.com) Regret (tattedmind.wordpress.com) In All of This, I Never Regret You. (whatwehavisthis.wordpress.com) Continue reading
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Whatever, Etc. 0026: Become Your Breathing
Just some basics for beginning sitting meditation. Make yourself comfortable, be friendly with your thoughts–ask them to please not bother you for five minutes–and simply breathe. Related articles Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration (keithwaynebrown.com) Thinking without Personal Recognition (keithwaynebrown.com) wandering, wondering: (a)maze (keithwaynebrown.com) Can… Continue reading
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Sphurana
Write text here… Related articles Shiva Nataraj (keithwaynebrown.com) The Incarnations (keithwaynebrown.com) In The Silence Of Heart (prachipbhandari.wordpress.com) Winged Information: A Peer Into The Mountaintop. ~ Donny Duke (elephantjournal.com) Continue reading
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Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’ – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Karl Jaspers and a number of other professors gave radio lectures and then television lectures. I recall my great friend, Richard Owsley, telling me that while he studied at the… Continue reading
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Melancholia: Certain Tracks and Uncertain Treks
Melancholia, always patient watcher, lurking in backgrounds, awaiting a moment when Sophia is not watching o’er my mind: Then, darkness. — Keith Wayne Brown (@pahndeepah) April 23, 2013 Flow the words from my fingers through the medium, plastic metal silicone… Continue reading
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