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Danger RoomAt the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in ...
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IEEE Spectrum: Push-Button BooksWe're an on-demand culture, accustomed to fast-food speed, drive-through convenience, and the virtual world's unlimited choices. And if a New York City–based start-up has its way, a 16th-century innovation with a 21st-century twist will soon satisfy those tastes. This summer, the company, called ...
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Digital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind : NPRDigital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind A A November 9, 2009 from An elite boarding school in Ashburnham, Mass., just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on renovating its library. But Cushing Academy wasn't just redoing its walls and carpets. The school is getting rid of the ...
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Why Read Heidegger | The New Republicby Damon Linker German philosopher Martin Heidegger gets a lot of bad press. And for good reason. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis, he did and said and wrote some nasty things before and after serving as the rector of Freiburg University from 1933-1934, and though he eventually ...
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Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger - NYTimes.comAn Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers? For decades the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been the subject of passionate debate. His critique of Western thought and technology has penetrated deeply into architecture, psychology and literary theory and ...
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3Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger - NYTimes.comWell, I'm sure that even Adolph had his rational moments... Thomas Aquinas was perfectly rational and logical aside from starting with the absurd (imho) assumption that there must have been a "Prime Mover". TMK, no philosopher has ever gotten it all perfectly right, even if some segments of ...Geoffrey Ames added 2 weeks ago
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3Why Read Heidegger | The New RepublicBack in the day, while struggling through Sartre's "Being and Nothingness", I came to the conclusion that any existential angst that I was feeling was unfounded, as some being outside myself must have come up with all of that stuff about the self-in-itself, the self-for itself, etc. - because no ...Geoffrey Ames added 2 weeks ago
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2Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger - NYTimes.comAnd if Hitler asserted "2+2 = 4", we would have to disregard that and all of arithmetic because he was THE Nazi!?JDP added 2 weeks ago
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2Why Read Heidegger | The New RepublicConsidering Heidegger's preoccupation with "nothingness" ("Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"; "Only in the bright night of the nothingness of angst does the original openness of that which exist come into view as such"), the unintentional(!?) pun of "nothing besides Being and ...JDP added 2 weeks ago
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2Republican Gomorrah: The Shattered GOP, Taken Over by Authoritarian Radicals, Is Incapable of Compromise | Politics | AlterNetThe Talibanization of the Republican party (a head-long and barely secret move toward a totalitarian theocracy) began long ago (early 1900s) and is now coming to fruition. The cast of characters reads like a who's-who of the religious and political right-wing of the Republican party.JDP added 6 weeks ago
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