Category: Whatever
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Insistence itself is in the wrong
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. Your insistence begets your interlocutor’s (my) resistance, acquiescence, or consternation. You believe that P must be the right way of proceeding or Q is the right picture of the world and that we should act based on P or Q. And I react to your forceful, impactful words either by fighting against…
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I Swear: On “Grit,” Adult Hypocrisy, and Privilege
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: I’m gonna cuss on the mic tonight. “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” Ben Folds My parents taught me that if you swear, it’s a sign of a poor vocabulary. If I expect my players to be disciplined, then I have to be, too. Dean Smith Few…
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Coffee Competition by the Numbers
Originally posted on evocationcoffee: With the 2015 US Barista Championship in the books, I thought it would be a great time to share a project that I’ve been working on. Using the wonderful resource of sprudgelive.com, I compiled and arranged data on the 2015 regional competition circuit to identify trends…
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The Collection and the Cloud
How do we talk about the politics of cultural records? If we cannot preserve everything, who defines what is worth saving? Source: thenewinquiry.com
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What’s the Difference Between Film and Reality?
Your brain isn’t so sure, according to Jeffrey M. Zacks’ new book Flicker. Source: www.psmag.com
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Does philosophy matter? | OUPblog
“Philosophers love to complain about bad reasoning. How can those other people commit such silly fallacies? Don’t they see how arbitrary and inconsistent their positions are? Aren’t the counter examples obvious? After complaining, philosophers often turn to humor. Can you believe what they said! Ha, ha, ha. Let’s make fun…
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Philosophy Bites Again Is a True Philosophical Gourmet
This is a dinner party in book form, although with topics such as torture, group agency, hate speech, and the afterlife, it’s not for the absent-minded. Source: www.popmatters.com Philosophizing via podcast, youtube, blogging, e-books, books… however philosophy can get beyond the walls of academe into the life of the commons.
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Hit board game lets players compete in designing aesthetic rock gardens – Asahi Shimbun
While online smartphone games are all the rage, a new board game in designing a traditional Japanese-style rock garden is showing there is still a market for old-fashioned fun. Source: ajw.asahi.com
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Ultra-cold mirrors could reveal gravity’s quantum side
An experiment not much bigger than a tabletop, using ultra-cold metal plates, could serve up a cosmic feast. It could give us a glimpse of quantum gravity and so lead to a “theory of everything“: one that unites the laws of quantum mechanics, governing the very small, and those of general relativity,…
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NASA Sees ‘Bright Spots’ On Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System
Scientists are puzzled by a new image taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which found two bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. The spots are noticeably brighter than other parts of the surface, which looks to be rocky and pockmarked. Source: www.npr.org
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One day we could borrow ‘antifreeze’ proteins from ticks to resist cold
Feeling a bit nippy? For now you’ll have to stick to your hat and scarf to warm up, but one day some antifreeze proteins from a fish or a tick might do the trick. In a preliminary study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE, researchers report using specially bred mice —…
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The Sparrow and The Red-Crowned Crane
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: A small sparrow was weaving her way down along the tree line, darting in-and-out of its branches before quickly changing directions and taking a steep dive over the riverside grasses. With a slight shift of her body she then swiftly rose again,…
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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
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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
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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 same with knowing a patient when you’re a doctor. A specialist…
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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 intellectual of the 1950s and 60s. He wrote prolifically in…
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