Monthly Archives: December 2011

Professor Kevin Anderson – Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous

Professor Kevin Anderson – Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous –welcome to the Apocalypse.

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Neopythagorean Technoscience Mythos

Our cyberpunk STEM folks certainly do not appear to be losing their very deep steampunk roots. The Demiurge of Plato that became the Watchmaker of Galileo is now the MetaSteveJobs of the Cosmos… wow, those technoscientists really know how to … Continue reading

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Driving Students into the Arms of For-Profit Schools

But despite her efforts to complete the coursework in the ensuing four years, Nelson is still not a nurse. California’s budget cuts have forced the state’s community college system to scale back the availability of crucial science classes. Nelson found … Continue reading

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The Useless PhD?

Thanks to Senior Fellow @ProfSteveFuller for tweeting this article: ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position … Continue reading

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“The Philosophy Of Food” – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast

“The Philosophy Of Food” – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast.

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UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril – The Washington Post

UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril – The Washington Post.

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Four Possible Futures

An intriguing consideration tweeted by my new Twitterverse colleague Rachel Armstrong (@livingarchitect). “Insofar as some human labor is still required in production in our imagined communist future, it could take the form of small collectives rather than capitalist or state … Continue reading

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M.I.T. Expands Free Online Courses

While students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pay thousands of dollars for courses, the university will announce a new program on Monday allowing anyone anywhere to take M.I.T. courses online free of charge — and for the first time earn … Continue reading

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Unprecedented Chinese Uprisings

China is no stranger to popular uprisings, but current protests in Guangdong province are unlike any in recent memory.  Activists in the village of Wukan have been fighting the corrupt seizure of land for commercial development for years, but when … Continue reading

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Doomsday or Resumes-day?

National Geopgraphics takes a look at debunking the Maya Code as doom & gloom for the world… It’s remotely possible the world will end in December 2012. But don’t credit the ancient Maya calendar for predicting it, say experts on … Continue reading

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The Guardian Reviews 2011

The news in 2011 was being recognised as exceptional long before the year began to draw to a close. Our interactive reviews 2011 as a whole but also captures running stories that defined the year from the Arab spring to the … Continue reading

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Overcoming Climatology

Meteorologist Jeff Masters’ discussion of atmospheric circulation, global warming, and climate modelling in the context of a massive weather disaster, the recurrent East African drought, seems to me to be moving towards the kind of interdisciplinary thinking needed to grapple … Continue reading

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Environmental Alarm Grows in Urban China

An incipient environmental awareness is increasingly emerging among the urban middle-class in China, but the almost apocalyptic scale of the pollution must be discouraging to activists, to say the least: The statement posted online along with a photograph of central … Continue reading

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‘Real’ Philosophy

It’s amazing how often that term is thrown like a brick at one’s head. As a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin some 30 years ago (could it really have been that long?) I was drummed out … Continue reading

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Democratizing Science

Senior Fellow Steve Fuller publishes a new piece in Logos & Episteme: The question in the title is addressed in three parts. First, I associate the democratisation of science with the rise of ‗Protscience‘ (i.e. ‗Protestant Science‘), which pertains to the long-term … Continue reading

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Non-Traditional Path for Non-Traditional Students

The Finish@UT program, which launched last week, is a selection of UT-System-approved online courses aimed primarily at students between ages 25 and 35 who have already amassed credits toward an undergraduate degree. “Particularly those students who have had various life … Continue reading

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Frodeman & Briggle Reblogged at Becoming Integral

Thanks to our alum Sam Mickey for reblogging this new piece. Much appreciated! What is becoming of philosophy in the 21st century?  There’s a great piece on that topic that just came out in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review. It … Continue reading

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Marginal Tax Rates the last 100 years:

Numbers that few seem to know….

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What Is College For?

A new piece in The Stone, the NY Times philosophy blog, raises questions about the value of college: Most American college students are wrapping up yet another semester this week. For many of them, and their families, the past months … Continue reading

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Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist

Think Twitter is just some newfangled contraption? Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist.

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Stolorow: Losing & Regaining My Sense of Being

This is a very moving piece by Dr. Stolorow. I find within it a warmth of humanity that sparks memories in my ownmost being of when I lost my great friend, my beloved mentor, Richard Owsley. Not long after he … Continue reading

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Note from an Underground Humanist

I wonder what Mr. Irion would think of Frodeman & Briggles’ new piece in the Chronicle? I sit in my last class. It’s a class about Toni Morrison. It’s a survey course, so we have covered all of her books. … Continue reading

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Chinese “wolf dad” writes “Beat Them Into Peking University,” trumps American tiger mom

This warped version of accountability gives the expression ‘raised by wolves’ a bad name. Chinese “wolf dad” writes “Beat Them Into Peking University,” trumps American tiger mom.

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Correlation or Causation?

With the right graph, you can imply anything…   Correlation or Causation? – Businessweek

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Philosophers Put Their Minds to Expanding Their Role in Public Affairs – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Yet another article on philosophers making an impact! Nice to see Michael O’Rourke (Idaho), Nancy Tuana (Penn State), Andrew Light (George Mason), and Paul Thompson and Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State) all quoted in the article. Martha Nussbaum, on the … Continue reading

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