Homeboy Sandman: Words Are Weapons: Hip Hop's Self-Depreciating Lexicon. Deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/35012/1/431_ftp.pdf. Lena Dunham, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, and the end of indie exceptionalism. Library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf. What's wrong with libertarianism. "The perfect liberty they seek is the liberty of making slaves of other people.
" -- Abraham Lincoln Apparently someone's curse worked: we live in interesting times, and among other consequences, for no good reason we have a surplus of libertarians. With this article I hope to help keep the demand low, or at least to explain to libertarian correspondents why they don't impress me with comments like "You sure love letting people steal your money! " Good libertarians and the other kind This article has been rewritten, for two reasons. First, the original article had sidebars to address common objections. Second, and more importantly, many people who call themselves libertarians didn't recognize themselves in the description. Jase's web space. Famous Plagiarists: Could it Happen Today? A recent article on Cracked.com entitled 5 Great Men Who Built Their Careers on Plagiarism has gotten a lot of attention and a few people have emailed me about it.
The five men on the list, Stephen Ambrose, T.S. Eliot, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Richard Owen and H.G. Wells are all well-known cases in plagiarism circles. History is littered with famous authors, scientists and other important figures who we later discovered that their works were plagiarized and only a few cases of where they were actually punished for it. These thoughts always put writers on edge. Water clock. A display of two outflow water clocks from the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens.
The top is an original from the late 5th century BC. The bottom is a reconstruction of a clay original. A water clock or clepsydra (Greek κλέπτειν kleptein, 'to steal'; ὕδωρ hydor, 'water') is any timepiece in which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel where the amount is then measured. Water clocks, along with sundials, are likely to be the oldest time-measuring instruments, with the only exceptions being the vertical gnomon and the day-counting tally stick.[1] Where and when they were first invented is not known, and given their great antiquity it may never be.
The bowl-shaped outflow is the simplest form of a water clock and is known to have existed in Babylon and in Egypt around the 16th century BC. Some modern timepieces are called "water clocks" but work differently from the ancient ones. Regional development[edit] Persia[edit] Egypt[edit] All Work and No Play Make the Baining the "Dullest Culture on Earth" The Baining—one of the indigenous cultural groups of Papua New Guinea—have the reputation, at least among some researchers, of being the dullest culture on earth.
Early in his career , in the 1920s, the famous British anthropologist Gregory Bateson spent 14 months among them, until he finally left in frustration. He called them “unstudiable,” because of their reluctance to say anything interesting about their lives and their failure to exhibit much activity beyond the mundane routines of daily work, and he later wrote that they lived “a drab and colorless existence.”
Forty years later, Jeremy Pool, a graduate student in anthropology, spent more than a year living among them in the attempt to develop a doctoral dissertation. He too found almost nothing interesting to say about the Baining, and the experience caused him to leave anthropology and go into computer science (reference here ). Fajans studied the Baining in the late 1970s and again in the early 1990s. Aurora shooting: If we want to prevent the next massacre, we need to cure our addiction to evil. In 1996, a man shot and killed 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania.
2011 Annual Question. There's a lot of stuff in the world: trees, cars, galaxies, benzene, the Baths of Caracalla, your pancreas, Ottawa, ennui, Walter Mondale.
How does it all fit together? In a word… Supervenience. (Pronounced soo-per-VEEN-yence. The verb form is to supervene.) Supervenience is a shorthand abstraction, native to Anglo-American philosophy, that provides a general framework for thinking about how everything relates to everything else. What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit? James Flynn has defined "shorthand abstractions" (or "SHA's") as concepts drawn from science that have become part of the language and make people smarter by providing widely applicable templates ("market", "placebo", "random sample," "naturalistic fallacy," are a few of his examples).
His idea is that the abstraction is available as a single cognitive chunk which can be used as an element in thinking and debate. The Edge Question 2011 The term 'scientific"is to be understood in a broad sense as the most reliable way of gaining knowledge about anything, whether it be the human spirit, the role of great people in history, or the structure of DNA. Coursera. Graphing the history of philosophy « Drunks&Lampposts. A close up of ancient and medieval philosophy ending at Descartes and Leibniz.
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