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On GeniusWhat we think of as a writer's unique and individual gifts, those sparkling sentences that critics extol--in my present understanding--are really the effervescence of language itself.
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Norman Rockwell: The OutsiderFascinating parallels between Norman Rockwell, Edward Hopper, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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What is Wisdom? What one generation can pass to another - Famous people's answers... (Video)Andrew Zuckerman new book and project. Inspired by idea that one of the greatest gifts one generation can pass to another is the wisdom it has gained from experience, the Wisdom project seeks to create a record of a multicultural group of people who have all made their mark on the world. ...
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"Reflecting on Basquiat"As an artist, Basquiat interests me from the point of view of direct, unmediated expression. Whereas many artists strive for an ideal in their work, whether it is technical or visionary, Basquiat seemed intimately related with the underlying surface of the self.
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Grace Under PressureWorld Class Leadership Course “There are no bad regiments in the French Army -- although some regiments fail because they are commanded by bad colonels.” Napoleon Bonaparte -- Maxims Of War Wild Ducks Some years ago I heard what was soon to become the ...
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Thinking literally. The surprising ways that metaphors shape your world By Drake Bennett | The Boston Globe"For most people, metaphor, like simile or synecdoche, is a term inflicted upon them in high school English class: “all the world’s a stage,” “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” Gatsby’s fellow dreamers are “boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Metaphors ...
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The sum of knowledge – online and accessible, no less | ICT ResultsEuropean researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind’s knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions of documents are already linked to this “United Nations of knowledge”. The EU-funded DRIVER project’s key result is a technological ...
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Larry Lessig and the Revival of Read Write CultureI was simply overwhelmed watching this Larry Lessig TED Talk. Not only do Lessig's ideas coincide with my own, but the issues he raises are almost exactly the same as I have raised in several essays on this blog.
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OpEdNews - Article: Nonviolent Civil Disobedience And The Employer Based Healthcare System WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE! ARE WE SO BEATEN DOWN?September 21, 2009 at 22:00:43 Nonviolent Civil Disobedience And The Employer Based Healthcare System By kate loving shenk ( about the author ) Page 1 of 2 page(s) For OpEdNews: kate loving shenk - Writer Americans exist in a Zombie state because they think our employer based ...
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How do we experience time? Timescapes of the Network Society by Robert Hassan | Fast CapitalismThis paper discusses a central element of this change through globalization that has so far received relatively little attention - our relationship with time and how this is changing, in turn, the nature of power and politics. (...) How do we experience time? What is the nature of time in the ...
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