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- French Teachers Consider Strike Over Reduction in Philosophy Curriculumjchalifour shared this story from Daily Nous: The world needs MORE people engaging with and using the means of philosophy. Last week, at the completion of their high school studies, 750,000 students in France took the baccalauréat exam in philosophy, or “bac philo,” as it is called. Meanwhile, worries about reforms to the baccalauréat system have some […]
- The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener on Communication, Control, and the Morality of Our Machinesjchalifour shared this story from Brain Pickings. “We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.” “Information will never replace illumination,” Susan Sontag asserted in considering the conscience of words. “Words are events, they do things, change things,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in the same era in […]
- A walk in his shoes: Japanese man caps off years-long walk around world in Tuktoyaktukjchalifour shared this story from CBC | Canada News. Masahito Yoshida has been walking around the world since 2009. He ended his 77,500- kilometre journey at Canada’s Arctic coast.
- Mad or Bad? Magritte’s Artistic Rebellionjchalifour shared this story from The Paris Review. René Magritte, La moisson (The Harvest), 1943. Long considered aberrations in his artistic career, René Magritte’s sunlit surrealist and vache pictures have recently been reassessed by art historians and critics not only on their own terms but also in relation to the notion of “bad painting.” The […]
- A New Theory Linking Sleep and Creativityjchalifour shared this story from The Atlantic. In 1920, the night before Easter Sunday, Otto Loewi woke up, seemingly possessed of an important idea. He wrote it down on a piece of paper and promptly returned to sleep. When he reawakened, he found that his scribbles were illegible. But fortunately, the next night, the idea […]
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Candylandjchalifour shared this story from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext: There is no chess, my friends. We are all in Candyland.New comic!Today's News:
- Colin Raff: Torpid Slivers #11-14jchalifour shared this story from Berfrois. by Colin Raff Of the hoofed filter feeders that roam the shores of the Black Sea, none has greater majesty than the Baleen Gazelle (G. gazella edentulata). Neither a denizen of the air nor of the waves that crash against the reefs, its dominion is over the jagged rocks of the Euxinovan […]
- CFLA-FCAB’s Statement Against the FairPlay Canada Application to Disable On-line Access to Piracy Sitesjchalifour shared this story from Canadian Federation of Library Associations. In response to the recent website blocking proposal submitted to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the Canadian Federation of Library Associations/Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques (CFLA-FCAB) is hereby submitting its response, and expressing concern, over the proposed, online anti-piracy blockers being requested […]
- Not your Tibetan Buddhismjchalifour shared this story from Aeon. Behind the beatific image of Tibetan Buddhism lies a dark, complicated reality. But is it one the Western gaze wants to see?By Mark HayRead at Aeon