09 July 2010
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.gravois.html Rather than produce one definitive map of the world, Google offers multiple interpretations of the earth’s geography. Sometimes, this takes the form of customized maps that cater to the beliefs of one nation or another. More often, though, Google is simply an agnostic cartographer—a peddler of “place browsers” that contain a multitude of views instead of univocal, authoritative, traditional maps. “We work to provide as much discoverable information as possible so that users can make their own judgments...
02 July 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8593780.stm Tuesday's milestone marks the beginning of work that could lead to the discovery of fundamental new physics.
There was cheering and applause in the LHC control room as the first collisions were confirmed.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/66894/sec_id/66894 defines a snob as ‘Someone who tends to patronize or avoid those regarded as social inferiors; someone who blatantly attempts to cultivate or imitate those admired as social superiors; someone who has an air of smug superiority in matters of knowledge or taste.’ The same dictionary defines ‘inverted snob’ as one ‘who sneers indiscriminately at people and things associated with wealth and high society.’ One possible derivation of the word snob is from the Latin sine nobilitate, without nobility.
There was cheering and applause in the LHC control room as the first collisions were confirmed.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/66894/sec_id/66894 defines a snob as ‘Someone who tends to patronize or avoid those regarded as social inferiors; someone who blatantly attempts to cultivate or imitate those admired as social superiors; someone who has an air of smug superiority in matters of knowledge or taste.’ The same dictionary defines ‘inverted snob’ as one ‘who sneers indiscriminately at people and things associated with wealth and high society.’ One possible derivation of the word snob is from the Latin sine nobilitate, without nobility.
01 July 2010
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/architecture-survey-201008 ‘Overall, the kind of language I’ve developed, which culminated in Bilbao, comes from a reaction to Postmodernism. I was desperate not to go there,” Gehry explains, in his refreshingly plainspoken style. “I was looking for a way to deal with the humanizing qualities of decoration without doing it. I got angry with it—all the historical stuff, the pastiche. I said to myself, If you have to go backward, why not go back 300 million years before man, to fish?
Frank Gehry: Weisman Art Center, U. of MN, Mpls, MN, 1993
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2320/variety “feeling is the deeper source of religion, and philosophic and theological formulas are secondary products, like translations of a text into another tongue.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James A belief was not a mental entity which somehow mysteriously corresponded to an external reality if the belief were true. Beliefs were ways of acting with reference to a precarious environment, and to say they were true was to say they guided us satisfactorily in this environment.
As his first act of freedom, he said, he chose to believe his will was free.
He proposed that the obvious answer, that we run because we are afraid, was wrong, and instead argued that we are afraid because we run... The mental aspect of emotion, the feeling, is a slave to its physiology, not vice versa: we do not tremble because we are afraid or cry because we feel sad; we are afraid because we tremble and are sad because we cry.
For James, the great men of history manipulate the thoughts of society. "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." He continues, "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
James states that, although it does appear that humans use associations to move from one event to the next, this cannot be done without this soul tying everything together... James therefore chose to combine the views of ... and... to create his own way of thinking that he believed to make the most sense.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Humans can comfortably keep track of three different mental states at a time, Ms. Zunshine said. For example, the proposition “Peter said that Paul believed that Mary liked chocolate” is not too hard to follow. Add a fourth level, though, and it’s suddenly more difficult... Whatever the root cause, Ms. Zunshine argues, people find the interaction of three minds compelling. “If I have some ideological agenda,” she said, “I would try to construct a narrative that involved a triangularization of minds, because that is something we find particularly satisfying.”
Frank Gehry: Weisman Art Center, U. of MN, Mpls, MN, 1993
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2320/variety “feeling is the deeper source of religion, and philosophic and theological formulas are secondary products, like translations of a text into another tongue.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James A belief was not a mental entity which somehow mysteriously corresponded to an external reality if the belief were true. Beliefs were ways of acting with reference to a precarious environment, and to say they were true was to say they guided us satisfactorily in this environment.
As his first act of freedom, he said, he chose to believe his will was free.
He proposed that the obvious answer, that we run because we are afraid, was wrong, and instead argued that we are afraid because we run... The mental aspect of emotion, the feeling, is a slave to its physiology, not vice versa: we do not tremble because we are afraid or cry because we feel sad; we are afraid because we tremble and are sad because we cry.
For James, the great men of history manipulate the thoughts of society. "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." He continues, "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
James states that, although it does appear that humans use associations to move from one event to the next, this cannot be done without this soul tying everything together... James therefore chose to combine the views of ... and... to create his own way of thinking that he believed to make the most sense.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Humans can comfortably keep track of three different mental states at a time, Ms. Zunshine said. For example, the proposition “Peter said that Paul believed that Mary liked chocolate” is not too hard to follow. Add a fourth level, though, and it’s suddenly more difficult... Whatever the root cause, Ms. Zunshine argues, people find the interaction of three minds compelling. “If I have some ideological agenda,” she said, “I would try to construct a narrative that involved a triangularization of minds, because that is something we find particularly satisfying.”
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