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  • Saturday Learning Series - Connections 3, Episode 1


    Nonsensible Shoes — Authority Authority: 433
    History itself is a series of connections of events. Sometimes seemingly unconnected events are connected in surprising ways. James Burke provides yet another series of connections in the Connections 3 series that explores how the modern day society and technology we take for granted has come into being. This ...
    2 weeks ago

  • The Decade of Fragility?


    Net News Publisher — Authority Authority: 152
    Through their Magazine the BBC is trying to compile a summing up of the first decade of the 21st century by polling their readers to “ tell the story of the last 10 years, based on five themes .” Personally, I tend to prefer the single unifying theme; but I realize that this might be a rather daunting task ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Audiobook: The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke


    Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All — Authority Authority: 116
    The Day the Universe Changed is a barreling through of the history of scientific thought. From the Babylonians to Einstein, this volume rolls right along without hardly a pause for breath. If you’re a layperson like me, you’ll probably follow until the whole light is a particle and a wave thing. That’s when ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Putting things in perspective.


    Communion Of Dreams — Authority Authority: 121
    Happy Thanksgiving, to my American friends. Perhaps thinking about giving thanks, and the question of my perspective from this vantage point in life, is what made this post from the Bad Astronomer pop out in my reading this morning. It’s about a scale model of the solar system hosted on the web. From the ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Saturday Learning Series - Worlds Without End


    Nonsensible Shoes — Authority Authority: 433
    Some have viewed this ending episode of the series as a Utopian vision of the future, focused on Buddhism and tying it to the potential of the Internet. I think thats an oversimplification. I believe Burke is looking at the potential explosion of knowledge and is optimistic. Despite the the scary sounding nature of a ...
    5 weeks ago

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