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Atlas of True Names
Cool project. Finds the etymology of over 3000 place names and renders them in a new atlas. Very much worth a look see. Atlas of True Names.
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Dream Sutras ( haibun )
Originally posted on simonhlilly: DREAM SUTRAS Something here in Japan, perhaps the lightness of the summer mornings, perhaps the way the land subtly shivers and sways, perhaps that we are intruders unfamiliar with the nuence of its neural patterns, make night dreams here more vivid. Certainly I awake more often…
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Third Anniversary
Today, I am reminded by WordPress, is the 3rd anniversary of this blog, Reason & Existenz. Over 22000 views as of today. Hope to reach 23000 by July 04 weekend. Thanks so much to all of my good brothers & sisters in the Ether who have followed, commented, reblogged, and/or…
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MOOCs and the Humanities
Originally posted on Posthegemony: So, there’s a lot of fuss about online and “flexible” learning, MOOCs, and the like these days. My posts on Eric Mazur and Coursera have drawn a fair amount of traffic to this otherwise rather neglected and sporadically updated blog. Welcome, new readers. Another post on…
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Daodejing 30
#30* The minister who relies on the DAO never threatens all under heaven with violence. Surely such an action must lead to retaliation. Wherever troops walk, weeds grow After the time of war, must come the time of famine. The good strategist desires the fruit of struggle: tranquility. He dares…
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Daodejing 29
#29* Desiring to possess all under heaven by force I think this never works. All under heaven is sacred. It cannot be taken over by force. It is uncontrollable. Possessiveness destroys; Control loses. Hence, the sage “does nothing” (wu wei)† and destroys nothing. Controls nothing and loses nothing. Things are…
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Authority and Laxity
Continuing the translations of the incomplete manuscripts of the middle-years of Li-Dan‘s long life… ———————- In the morning of the last day he walked beneath the Yingke Pines, the Lord Māotóuyīng, Baronet of Wēishìjì, turned with purpose, yea even concern, to impart the wisdom of long life to his faithful squire,…
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We need a new dialogue between physics and philosophy – The Guardian
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsWe need a new dialogue between physics and philosophy The Guardian In his article (Philosophy isn’t dead yet, 27 May) Raymond Tallis raises some important and difficult issues about the extent to which contemporary physics has largely parted…See on www.guardian.co.uk
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Study: Immigrant contributions a boon to Medicare
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new study reveals that immigrants’ contributions to Medicare generated a $115 billion surplus from 2002 to 2009. I am glad to see a study was at last accomplished to demonstrate what common sense should already have postulated. If you know a) most immigrants…
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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 students aren’t paying much for these classes, if they’re paying…
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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 my good friend Sam Gist. “One of the greatest challenges…
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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 high-pressure tasks – like singing in public – do in…
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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 get to the top, you get to climb a bit.…
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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 all this programming–television–is a place holder for how we access…
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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 the genome of the carnivorous bladderwort plant Utricularia gibba. http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/carnivorous-plant-trims-its-tiny-genome/
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