January 2012
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Selections from my Semester II Syllabus:
This semester’s aim is nothing less than to help you live a rich and meaningful life as a responsible human being. That’s right. It is my goal to make you a wonderful, well read, highly intelligent person in just a few short months (and I know I can do it). We will explore what it means to know, to love, to feel, to exist and to question. We will discuss our ultimate values and beliefs...
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October 2011
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SETI Predicts Contact With Extraterrestrials in... →
And they think it will be with artificial intelligence. Related: Pitchfork: Is the internet a big part of your life? Tom Waits: No. I mean, it’s necessary, but it’s not really part of my world. It’s robots, right? They are taking over the world. What is the biggest enemy of a computer? Pitchfork: I’m going to say water. TW: There you go. Slowly, their goal is to...
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September 2011
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I Teach History
I. I’ve been thinking a good deal about historiography lately - for reasons that will become obvious momentarily - and more specifically about the way we choose to document our lives. There is much and more to say about the ways in which humans decide to commemorate and explain what has come before them, and people much smarter than I have spent their lives studying and exploring these...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Typical Rant.
Not to be the guy talking politics like a thirteen year old, but COME ON. I just don’t even know what to say anymore. Our president almost DESTROYED everything his party supposedly holds dear tonight and it still wasn’t enough for the House Republican caucus. A deal that gave them everything they wanted and more, denied because they wouldn’t agree to close tax loopholes. Of...
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Alex and Lauren having fun.
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Borges
BORGES “Look here, I’m talking to an American: There’s a book I must speak about—nothing unexpected about it—that book is Huckleberry Finn. I thoroughly dislike Tom Sawyer. I think that Tom Sawyer spoils the last chapters of Huckleberry Finn. All those silly jokes. They are all pointless jokes; but I suppose Mark Twain thought it was his duty to be funny even when he...
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June 2011
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BBU playing the hits.
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