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Centered and Whole
Finding new metrics of success is not just for women. It is for women and men who want to be whole, centered, and happy human beings. That means being whole in mind and body, reason and emotion, work and family. It’s time to change the game, for everyone. Anne-Marie Slaughter:…
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(Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my village I pass an old maple, this is not a…
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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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Twilighting Idolatries
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and…
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House of God
Awesomeness. Shake my sisters and brothers of the Ether… Shake it! Related articles New Dub Gabriel Album Out Today! (midnightraverblog.com) Demo: Jack the Reaper steals your heart and soul in this SNES-inspired platformer (indiegames.com) The Eater of Worlds:HERO Chapter 8 And down went Alice (w0rldeat3r.wordpress.com) Wonji (lockedrecords.wordpress.com) Daft Punk –…
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Poem for Kris
as said by them sages, “just so” just so-just so-just so non-interference with the flow forgoing and slowing forgoing all knowing when we see “to – be” just sewing-just sewing-just sewing Related articles Flowing / Swaying (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 25 (keithwaynebrown.com) Body 3: The Disembodied Artist (disembodiedtext.com) A Critical view on William…
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Flowing / Swaying
Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an infinity of divisions. For this reason, learning as the apprehension…
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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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How Twitter Is Changing the Geography of Communication
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions New research suggests that location plays a smaller role now in who we talk to and what we talk about. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “There are two ways to think about connectivity on Twitter: People “follow” each other (a fairly passive form of interaction),…
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Controlling for Cosmopolis
Jose Ortega y Gasset points out that the term “emperor’ means “the one who goes to where the border begins”. The Latin word is related to the Spanish verb empezar (to begin). An Imperator was a general who kept whole the edges and maybe even expanded them outward. In the Society…
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The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The “Not-So-Lite” SUMMER READING LIST for Academics! Teri Shaffer Yamada Jeffrey J. Selingo, Editor at Large at the Chronicle of Higher Education, has extensive experience with the politics of … Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: A really comprehensive reading list from Teri Shaffer Yamada…
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New STAR WARS: RECLAMATION Series Holds Clues to EPISODE VII – News – GeekTyrant
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The first few pages of a story and character bible for a new series called Star Wars: Reclamation were posted on IMDB that not only give us some details on what the series will be about but they also offer clues to what we…
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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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Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to lose time because its mathematical gaze freezes change. Tensed time,…
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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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Research impact: We need negative metrics too
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook, Kelli Barr and I had a letter published this week at Nature. Exciting for a humble daoist anarchocynic like myself. The correspondence also contains a link to a slightly revised version of our original submission. Since Nature keeps everything behind a pay wall, here is that link. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7450/full/497439a.html Related…
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