Category: Method or META HODOS
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TechnoScience & the New Pedagogy
In the past, the suggestion of getting a college degree without ever cracking a book meant paying a degree mill. It meant the degree was in name only, reflecting neither learning nor effort. Then distance learning meant correspondence courses, perhaps combined with some coordinated telecasts. Technology has already changed all…
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Using a Compass Now vs. an Outdated Map from Before
One of my good friends, Andrew Wicklander, runs his own project management group and software company. His wife, Maile, owns a yoga studio. They are both the sort of “job-creators” touted as crucial to the success of America. Andrew says that when he and Maile are hiring, they do not…
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How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans – NYTimes.com
Neil Heffernan was listening to his fiancée, Cristina Lindquist, tutor one of her students in mathematics when he had an idea. Heffernan was a graduate student in computer science, and by this point — the summer of 1997 — he had been working for two years with researchers at Carnegie…
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Quora answer: What is the value of accepting paradoxes in life? « thinknet
I thought I would clarify the nature of paradox in relation to superrationality. Paradox is mixture, it is where there is mixture between contradictory opposites. However, superrationality is when you have two things at the same time but they do not mix. Generally speaking paradox is like entanglement in Quantum…
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Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People
Be gentle « Joshi Daniel Photography | Images Of People.
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Seeing the World Close-Up | Tracie Louise Photography
Interacting with the people of the Ether, these communities of sentiment & devotion that share the singular situation of their vision… this is a wonderful privilege and used in the most mindful manner allows us to envision possibilities that we might have never discovered otherwise. I am enjoying these photos…
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Shimer College and the Future: Text of David Shiner’s Euthyphro lecture
Every Shimer student in the Weekday program reads Plato’s Euthyphro as their first assignment in preparation for Orientation. This is appropriate, because Platonic dialogues such as the Euthyphro are typical of the sorts of texts that work particularly well in the Shimer classroom. The meanings of such texts are rarely…
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Textimony 20120822
We try & are tried; harm & are harmed; help & are helped. Not having THE ANSWER for all time, we embrace historic solutions for the time being. Thus we strive . Related articles If we can refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start…
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Textimony 20120816
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.” Frank Herbert, DUNE
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» Sorting Out the Apostle Paul Beyond Good and Evil
This is a blog entry from the first person with which I ever studied philosophy, Ronnie “Doc” Hastings, Ph.D. So, what I am about to do regarding Paul and the origins of Christianity is to claim my birth right as a Protestant. I am going to find answers to my…
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Textimony 20120811
If seeking ethics, embrace fortitude; faith, compassion; wisdom, openness; divinity, mercy. But in seeking wholeness, embrace nothing. Let-go.
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Textimony 20120808
Youth-Health-Wealth-Power: Such pass through & around as we exchange glances with the ENCOMPASSING GOOD. Be not distracted from the Beloved!
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Textimony 20120804a
Stop. Breathe. Let-go. Breathe. NOWHERE. Breathe. Consider. Breathe. NOW/HERE. Breathe. Move along. …
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Textimony 20120805
dry horizon dusk crimson passion births star shine cat chasing crickets
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The Brilliant Maelstrom of Possibility
Two good posts on our emerging and merging realization of the Comprehensive Life-Breath (SOUL, PSYCHE, ANIMA, ATMAN) by Soul-Spelunker: We are swirling within Souls Maelstrom. Round and round we go in this world, and ever downward. But, as we move deeper into the Vortex of Life, we move, simultaneously, inward…
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James Fadiman, The Heretic: Historia Psychodelia Americana
Fadiman’s influence transcends counterculture, though. It might even stretch through the very medium through which you’re reading these words. In What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff reports that Fadiman had dosed and counseled numerous “heads” as they were attempting to amplify consciousness through silicon chips and virtual reality. The personal…
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Textifying to the Encompassing Good
Five years ago, after someone claimed that texting was a complete waste of time, I challenged myself: Would it not be a wonderful exercise in perennial philosophy to come up with aphorisms in 160 characters or less? I began to distill whatever I might be reading around in or talking…
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