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• In Congress, Ignorance is Strength

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  by Edward Cline, 11/14/09I open this commentary with the introduction to my previous commentary, “The Mainstream Smearing of Ayn Rand.” The disparity in subject is not so irrelevant as one might presume, but I won’t dwell on that matter. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi looked like a deer caught in the ...
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• Portraits of Polonia: Allan Sekula explores Polish identity at the Renaissance Society

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 129
  Juxtaposing images of fighter jets, CIA black sites, and industrial factory farms with family portraits and shots of Polish-Americans at ethnic festivals , the forty photographs and wall-mount quotations that comprise “Polonia and Other Tales,” Allan Sekula’s current exhibition at the University of Chicago’s ...
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• The Grand Tour: Vedute di Roma at the Smart Museum

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 129
  Considered an essential component in the education of young English aristocrats, the Grand Tour’s objective was to broaden the mind , to polish one’s command of foreign languages, and to establish valuable personal and diplomatic connections by means of a lengthy stay abroad. The Tour’s standard itinerary ...
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• Art: It’s What’s for Brunch

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 129
  “It’s a cult,” Renaissance Society curator Hamza Walker said, addressing a room filled to the brim with art students from across Chicago. The statement was in response to a question posed by a student that he rephrased as, “Why does contemporary art work? How can artists get away with it?” “It’s a ...
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• UCI offering free classes online

  
  Sciencedude — Authority: 127
  Researcher James Nowick. Image courtesy of UCI. UC Irvine has slowly begun to follow the lead of other colleges and universities,videotaping courses that are later placed online for the enjoyment and education of the public. Irvine recently posted an entire 20-episode organic chemistry course on iTunes that is ...
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• Opposing the Stupak Amednment, Respectfully

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment. Some weeks ago, I was standing out front of a traditional Italian grocery wearing a Knights of Columbus smock raising money for programs that serve the mentally disabled. I ...
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• Four theses on university presidents’ speech

  
  decasia: critique of academic culture — Authority: 103
  Recently I got an interesting email from my university’s communications department with a link to a speech recently given by the university’s current president, Robert Zimmer. They said they had appreciated my prior comments on academic freedom and were curious to hear my comments on this speech. Never having ...
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• Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor

  
  OneJerusalem.com Israel News Blog Feed — Authority: 128
  Searching for the truth about Jewish History became a game of deceit and backstabbing last week in America. There are two schools of thought regarding the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls . Many historians claim that they were written by a scribe from the ascetic Jewish sect the Essenes , of whom it is also claimed ...
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• Healthcare Sector Accounts for 8% of U.S. Carbon Footprint

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 626
  The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for nearly a tenth of the country’s carbon-dioxide emissions, according to University of Chicago researchers. The research takes into account activities such as hospital care, scientific research and the production and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs. The study shows that the ...
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• Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Chicago / Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates

  
  ArchDaily — Authority: 661
  Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts, © Tod Williams Billie Tsien Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects , a renowned practice with expertise in public/cultural buildings, just unveiled the details for the new Reva and David Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at the ...
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• The reification of history as such recapitulates the ideology of the public sphere

  
  Madam Mayo — Authority: 124
  Ya think so? That bit of gobbledygook is thanks to this nifty toy: Make Your Own Academic Sentence. More anon.
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• The end of efficient markets

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 422
  Baltimore — ( TFN ): How efficient are the markets? It is like asking how smart is the human race We all know the answer, but few of us are willing to suck in our pride and admit there are a few dim bulbs among us. Judging by the sudden rise in fame of Levi Johnson or Balloon Boy’s antics, the human brain is far ...
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• Women’s soccer: Bears fall to Chicago, tie for UAA crown

  
  Student Life — Authority: 603
  Sophomore Emma Brown had two shots in the Nov. 7 loss to the University of Chicago. Wash. U. tied for the UAA title with the University of Rochester and earned an automatic NCAA bid. (Matt Mitgang | Student Life) Despite holding an undefeated streak dating back to Sept. 5, the Washington University women’s soccer ...
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• Cat Ladies

  
  Fire In The Bones — Authority: 112
  So it turns out that in some places with wise city fathers it will soon be illegal to own more than three cats at a time . This is: a)     Good. My cat allergy + my current hosts’ four cats (also a drooling, shedding dog ) + the person who lives here who likes cats threatening to get more cats + the person ...
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• The Best Way To Take A Study Break

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 143
  I can, of course, testify to the description found in this post concerning the quality of social life at the University of Chicago, where the words “study break” equated either “study another subject,” “brush your teeth,” “attend class,” or even “sleep for a few hours, but don’t overdo it.” But ...
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• Nietzsche’s Niche: Kirp on the University of Chicago

  
  decasia: critique of academic culture — Authority: 103
  I was just reading Christopher Newfield’s interesting 2003 book review on university-industry relations when I noticed that he mentioned a chapter by Kirp on the University of Chicago . The following rather florid (occasionally insulting) prose is interesting — at least to me — because it proceeds from ...
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• Figure Theater: Nori Sawa blends Japanese and Czech puppetry

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 129
  (courtesy of the artist) In a Japanese legend, a wounded soldier collapses unconscious in the woods, where a white woman appears to him and lures his spirit from his body. He soars skyward with her, but glimpsing his body still lying on earth, decides to return to it. The white woman disappears; the soldier ...
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• Renaissance Man of Sound: Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III brings avant-garde jazz to Bond Chapel

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 129
  John McPhee (Andy Newcombe/flickr) Joe McPhee is a Renaissance man of sound . The 70-year-old horn and reed player’s versatility has made him one of the free music community’s most cherished members since he released his first recordings on his own label in the late 1960s. The idea of revolution has been ...
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• 2009 Election News

  
  MANSIZEDTARGET.COM — Authority: 118
  I thought Dick Morris and Charles Hurt had interesting things to say on last night’s election results.  Gay marriage lost in Maine, which suggests the momentum of this judge-and-elite-driven social change may be losing steam. Republicans won the governorship of Virginia, which is an Obama swing state and the ...
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• A Failure Built to The Sky: Looking at the History of Public Housing in Chicago

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  D. Bradford Hunt, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing, University of Chicago Press, 2009.  392 pages. By Matthew Blake In 1994, Republicans seized control of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich set out to vanquish what remained of ...
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