where would ordinary educated nonspecialists be without our twin towers of long-form journalism, the new yorker and the atlantic? here's an atlantic article...
Excellent article, Barry. Thanks for sending it. I have been aware of this debate for several years, at a very surface level. But this is the most in-depth and...
a fascinating interview with an author who looks at the 'creative class' as an index of the energy of a city, and explains why austin took off and detroit...
In a message dated 6/10/02 8:52:06 AM, barry@... writes: << it got me thinking about san antonio (a place many of us on this list are connected to),...
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tim - my bad, there; i didn't represent his thesis entirely accurately. he's not claiming that there's a *cause* -- only a *correlation*. so, he says that the...
a friend just wrote, in the slack grammar that characterizes informal internet communication, "that is just apart of how i think." that got me to thinking: how...
here's an article in by ryan lizza that talks about the federal funds that florida is getting these days -- huge amounts of special deals and favors designed...
i read that article with great interest, until it became clear that this was another superstitious worry-piece that i thought had died out in 97. some...
"As a philosopher, Socrates regards all opinion, no matter how conventional and confused, as potentially partial knowledge." That's Paul Cantor, author of...
... And to a large extent, the full measure of "art" that will be applied to our times can only be applied from a distance. There are composers and artists who...
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here's an article by david brown, author of "bobos in paradise," about going back and forth from 'red' america to 'blue' america -- that is, conservative, ...
in the sept 16th issue of the new yorker -- one year after the trade center attacks -- (and by the way the cover alone, once again, is worth the price of the...
In a message dated 11/2/02 5:43:23 PM, barry@... writes: << in the sept 16th issue of the new yorker -- one year after the trade center attacks --...
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this article got me thinking about that phrase, 'knowing something by heart.' that's more apt than we recognize, because, as she points out, having these...
by the way, notice that her first phrase was "these fragments," which brings to mind ts eliot's poem that describes modern life as 'the waste land.' the entire...
In a message dated 12/29/02 5:43:47 PM, barry@... writes: Barry: Learning by heart comes from the Greek theory that our brain was in the chest. Now,...
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Dec 30, 2002 12:01 am
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tim writes ... heheeeeee! professor weaver: how bout if i stop when you stop misspelling "cousin" and begin putting question marks at the end of your...
In a message dated 12/30/02 1:36:08 AM, barry@... writes: << Oh, alright. Just for the sake of good holiday cheer, I'll capitalize this capital...
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Interesting article. I had one class at Baylor in which we memorized more poetry than we did in all of high school ( "whan that april with its showres ...
In a message dated 12/30/02 10:27:11 PM, stingray1@... writes: << The heart is the seat of understanding; thus the Scripture speaks of men "wise in...
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... I always thought it was funny that the ancient Greeks were so unempirical. Aristotle would nonchalantly say that men have more teeth than women, based on ...
In a message dated 12/31/02 3:54:43 PM, barry@... writes: << I always thought it was funny that the ancient Greeks were so unempirical. Aristotle...
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re both Tim and Barry's comments: Yeah, it's funny how the Greeks didn't get it right, and seems like it would have been easy for them to inquire more...
In a message dated 1/1/03 4:55:50 PM, stingray1@... writes: << re both Tim and Barry's comments: Yeah, it's funny how the Greeks didn't get it right, and...
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mike brannon sends me this article -- woww! i want that CD! ... Researchers translate DNA code into music Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Posted: 10:21 AM EST (1521...
what say ye to a game of sorts? let's have an info-race to see who can find out the most the first about the mystery ship the "high aim," found off the coast...
Piracy seems to be the working theory: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5857411%255E662,00.html Interestingly, the captain and first...
ever hear of the concept of the food desert? picture lawrence of arabia tromping through potato chips? well, the idea is that even in wealthy countries there...
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