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Swedenborg’s Rough Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Other Places | Reality Sandwich
…Many readers otherwise open to Swedenborg‘s thought are put off by his accounts of hell. This includes figures like William Blake and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a pointed criticism of Swedenborg’s vision, which… Continue reading
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Walking Statue
Manchester Museum is getting a lot of publicity for a video of a statue that slowly rotates through the course of the day. It’s on a glass shelf, and it only moves when there are people walking nearby. via Debunked:… Continue reading
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[Harper’s Index] | July 2013
This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine: …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4 Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students… Continue reading
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Castle Perilous
“Revelation can be more perilous than revolution.” Nabokov Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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John of the Desert
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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John of the Desert
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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Daodejing 35
#35* Grasping the appearance: all will come along following without quarrel. Tranquility Peace Quietude Sweet music and good food catch the passersby (like bait). When the Great Way (DAO) is spoken: dull and tasteless. Seeing it: not enough to be… Continue reading
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The ideology and politics of fracking in an image
Originally posted on tothesungod: If you prefer visuals to text, here’s To Frack or Not to Frack condensed into a single image. Consider it an elaborate way of saying: when it comes to the risks and regulation of natural gas development—the politics… Continue reading
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Don’t Believe the Hype
Originally posted on Independent Scholars: These days it is often hard to tell when a claim is true when faced with the swirl of rapid fire information that is our modern world. We teach our students to evaluate sources, but… Continue reading
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Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker
We may be dealing here with a general principle of action… Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would… Continue reading
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The Bather
The Bather by Alexander Porfirevich Archipenko (1915). © Estate of Alexander Archipenko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. http://www.philamuseum.org Continue reading
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Aging Well
Originally posted on Live Life in Crescendo: This is post featured on WP Freshly Pressed. Current post is first on recent post list. “Oh, I’m too old for that “. Spoken by someone 80? Spoken by a young man.… Continue reading
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Te Atua (God)
“Te Atua (God)” by Paul Gauguin. 1893-94. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund, 1941. http://www.philamuseum.org Continue reading
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An ASCII Poem
d|gI+Al hEGeM0n …d|g|Z|nE An ASCII Poemby Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese < > ! * ‘ ‘ # ^ ” ` $ $ – ! * = @ $ _ % * < > ~ #4 & [ ] .… Continue reading
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