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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Diplomacy
DIPLOMACY It had been ordered that the execution should take place in the garden of the yashiki (1). So the man was taken there, and made to kneel down in a wide sanded space crossed by a line of tobi-ishi, … Continue reading
Would James Madison Roll In His Grave? Two parts
I. Alex Gibney, director of the new film Casino Jack (& The United States of Money,) also Oscar-winning director of “Taxi to the Dark Side” and “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” interviewed here by Andrew O’Hehir (Salon-link) Key … Continue reading
David Brooks Fail
The milquetoast, kinder-and-gentler conservative NYT editorialist David Brooks delivered another brightly burning ideational bulb today. Man, I wish he had had the time to show it to the missus first! It is all downhill after this tipping point, reached in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alenxander Hamilton, capitalism, current events, David Brooks, economics, politics, populism
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Teaching Cartoon: Delusion
h/t Max Cannon’s Build Your Own Meat.
The Librarian’s Shadow
Source: Madisonian Net
Serendip @Bryn Mawr
While I was wrestling with a problem of terminology* with respect to key definitions with respect to my concocting a Transformative Anthropology, I happened upon Serendip at Bryn Mawr College. Here’s a few captures from this marvelous site and project. … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning
Tagged adult learning, coherencies, transformative anthropology
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Play Ethic
Head’s up to a very deep resource: Pat Kane’s The Play Ethic. Kane web site lists a ton of outward bound resources on play and experiential learning. On the Wikipedia page about him, it is written, As co-director (with partner … Continue reading
Grey Area of Motivation, Alas
Looking through old drafts, I came across a long essay on motivation. The essay was the result of a research project I did several years ago. You don’t get to see it; it’s moment has passed. Nevertheless, motivation fascinates me … Continue reading
Posted in folk psychology
Tagged cognitive psychology, folk psychology, phenomenology, psychology
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Neighbor
click to enlarge Src There is a vast region of sand dunes at high northern latitudes on Mars. In the winter, a layer of carbon dioxide ice covers the dunes, and in the spring as the sun warms the ice … Continue reading
Secrets Revealed
I noted recently via a google alert that lectures of Idries Shah, taken from a series of hard-to-obtain cassettes, have been made available on the web site, The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge. Ishk.net is ostensibly the web … Continue reading
Posted in sufism
Tagged culture, experiential learning, idies Shah, Idries Shah, spirituality, sufism
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Quest to Learn
[excerpt] she won’t know if the school prepares kids for real-world success until the first class graduates. But Quest has already proved itself in one area: The kids love it. “It’s fun,” says student Nadine Clements. Her least favorite part … Continue reading
District 9
“Sorry, but you’re one too many payments behind.” District 9 provided the most rewarding movie-going experience of the year. I have to chuckle when I reflect upon how the allegory is worked through in the gritty shoestring indy District 9, … Continue reading
Teaching Story – The Ancient Hedge
Every day Nasrudin went to beg for alms in the market, and people used to make fun of him by playing the following trick: they would show him two coins, one worth ten times more than the other, and Nasrudin … Continue reading