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MAPPING MUSICAL EXPERIENCE
2007-10-18 01:18:00 Given any rich experience, what happens when we commit our sensibility to graphically mapping the experience in real time? Deborah Blair’s paper is fascinating. Her model has much wider applications. And, this toolmaker came up with many such possibilities. By all means check out the PDF and especially the examples of her students’ maps of ... More About: Musical , Experience , Mapping
BOUNCIN? B ON THE RAIL
2007-10-15 15:03:00 Honorary nephew B. has taken up the guitar but he had never seen a lap steel. Once I dug up the smaller Jerry Byrd tonebar, in lieu of the jumbo glass Boyette, he took to bouncing and sliding on my Fouke Indy Rail . I plugged it into the computer and let him find his way ...
I?M CONCEALED
2007-10-05 01:11:00 I’m so close to you that I’m far apart, So completely merged that I’m separate, So vastly exposed that I’m concealed, So whole and sound that I’ll never be healed. #1121, from Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988). From translations of Rumi by Zara Houshmand
STREETLIFE
2007-09-24 19:47:00 Favorite vacation spots: Fez, Dakar, Capetown, Iceland. Sight unseen.
TRIBE TIME, NOW?
2007-09-23 13:42:00 In the weeks during which the Cleveland Indians began to kick toward the Central Division crown, the lack of Jacobs Field sell-outs increasingly became the point of talk show conversation. Why weren’t the fans excited enough to start another string of sell-outs? After all, this 2007 team is somewhat in the same young and feisty ... More About: Time , Tribe
TRUE BELIEVERS
2007-09-22 14:14:00 It seems some leading lights of the anti-God, pro-evolution have become ensnared by an “op” of the intelligent design brotherhood. The NYT reports today the film, ?Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,? is a scree made to support ID and issues of academic freedom. Presumably the academic freedom is not free enough to allow non-scientific viewpoints ... More About: True , Believers
RAISIN? KANE
2007-09-15 13:21:00 Found this via the essential lefty media blog, Crooks and Liars, Mad Kane ’s Humor Blog. Scroll down and check out the Spam Haiku. Here’s a taste: Large screen DVD. Is your husband performing? Big trading alert. More About: Raisin
THEN THERE WAS THE TIME WHEN IT COULDN?T EXIST
2007-09-10 14:13:00 Found via Chris Harrison’s Interrogating Nature Religion?s evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion Scott Atran CNRS?Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France and Institute for Social Research?University of Michigan Ara Norenzayan Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia 1. Introduction In every society,1 there are 1. Widespread counterfactual and counterintuitive beliefs in supernatural agents (gods, ghosts, goblins, etc.) 2. Hard-to-fake public expressions of costly material commitments to supernatural agents, that is, ... More About: Time , Exist , The Time , Then
HEALTHY SKEPTICISM
2007-08-30 13:12:00 Hat tip to Learning2Share; cartoon by Ivan Brunetti; obviously after Ernie Bushmiller; source More About: Skepticism , Healthy , Heal
DEBATING DEBATES
2007-08-29 14:43:00 Another great thread unfolds on the Observation Deck:The First Mayoral Debate of the Lakewood Observer. (As always, the Lakewood Observer project in Lakewood, Ohio, is one of the truly innovative experiments in civic engagement, intelligence and journalism going on in the US today.) Although it is obvious the US has become debate-crazy, as if debates ... More About: Debates
MONKEY PREZ
2007-08-27 14:10:00 Bill Maher embarrassed Mike Huckabee and himself during a brief inquiry into the Republican candidate’s position on evolution on a segment on Maher’s show Sunday. Maher’s sloppy question, “Don’t you believe we’re descended from monkeys?” is obviously the wrong formulation because homo sapiens sapiens is not descended from monkeys as far as anybody knows. (The lines ... More About: Monkey , Prez
TRIGGER MAN
2007-07-25 14:41:00 Albert Ellis has passed away at 93. Where the Freudians maintained that a painstaking exploration of childhood experience was critical to understanding neurosis and curing it, Dr. Ellis believed in short-term therapy that called on patients to focus on what was happening in their lives at the moment and to take immediate action to change ...
TO HIM IT?S ALL ONE
2007-07-20 15:17:00 The friend to whom flower and thorn are one, In whose faith, Koran and Cross are the same – Why should we worry? To him it’s all one: The swiftest horse or a donkey that’s lame. #454: From Rumi’s Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988). Translated by Zara Houshmand
ON LEAVE UNTIL SEPTEMBER
2007-07-01 00:45:00 I’m moving my household and self, and lovely partner, over the next two months. I might pop up here now and then or not. I’ll return with a backlog and will post poste haste! More About: Leave , September , Sept
FUDD
2007-06-29 00:41:00 Alright, I waded through Behe’s Edge of Evolution. It provides no positive argument. At all. Counting here its argument from incredulity just for what it is: what biologists can’t readily explain to Behe’s satisfaction must allow for some other explanation. His acceptance of some features of evolution turns out to be complete non-acceptance because he’s enthused ...
POST-MODERN PERRINO
2007-06-23 01:17:00 Usually a politically oriented posting is posted to Diggeracity, where I rant and rave to blow off steam. However, I offer a clipping of Dana Perrino, Deputy White House Press Secretary, addressing questions and follow-ups about this week’s odd assertion from the office of the Vice President that, in effect, the VP is in a ... More About: Post , Modern , Post-Modern
WITHOUT A TRACE
2007-06-20 15:15:00 I’ve been trudging through the commentaries on Behe and his new book. This is exhausting. I know how it ends. In a nutshell, Behe has accepted all but the remarkable causal supposition of modern evolutionary explanation. This rejected supposition in sum is that the natural evolutionary mechanics are commensurate with the results of biological complexity. This ends ... More About: Without a Trace , Trac
WITHOUT A TRACE
2007-06-17 15:15:00 I’ve been trudging through the commentaries on Behe and his new book. This is exhausting. I know how it ends. In a nutshell, Behe has accepted all but the remarkable causal supposition of modern evolutionary explanation. This rejected supposition in sum is that the natural evolutionary mechanics are commensurate with the results of biological complexity. This public ... More About: Without a Trace , Trac
BEHEMATH
2007-06-16 16:18:00 Post-creationist Michael Behe has a new book, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, and I’ll be adding to my comments here over the next few days. I am not in any way qualified to evaluate the book’s technical argument and tyhe arguments of Behe’s critics unless all such arguments are ...
WITNESS
2007-06-03 22:12:00 This is a first sports post. …gotta let it out, it being elation. I’m first a baseball fan but basketball is my favorite sport to watch on the tv. Last night the Cavs brought a Cleveland team to a pro championship series for only the third time since a Cleveland team actually reigned as ... More About: Witness
PINCH ME, PLEASE PINCH KEN HAM
2007-06-01 14:42:00 The truths of science and faith are complementary: they deal with very different questions, but they do not contradict each other because the spiritual order and the material order were created by the same God. It does not strike me as anti-science or anti-reason to question the philosophical presuppositions behind theories offered by scientists who, in ... More About: Inch , Lease , Ease
GET IT
2007-05-29 05:47:00 James Howard Kuntsler: “I’m fond of saying that if America could harness the power it wastes blowing smoke up its own ass, we could magically escape our energy-and-climate-change predicament.” Usually I’d place this on Diggeracity, but Kuntsler’s sentiment is so widely applicable to so much of smokin’ America, what the heck. (Kuntsler, Richard Grossinger, Lewis Lapham, ...
FOLK ANTHROPOLOGY
2007-05-27 15:31:00 Lakewood Ohio’s Visionary Alignment often finds its grip on the Observation Deck of the Lakewood Observer, the city’s all volunteer community newspaper. A thread there, unfolding since May 12, Race, Courage and the Future of Lakewood exemplifies the spirit of deep inquiry that is one of the core facets of this project. The Visionary Alignment is ... More About: Folk , Anthropology , Ology , Polo
SLOWING DOWN TO BETTER PROBLEM SOLVE
2007-05-26 04:03:00 For the past two years I have been researching with a colleague the following mouthful: informal, self-managed problem solving in dyadic interpersonal contexts. Okay? The research is informal and is driven by loosely coupled folk psychological theorizing about potentially productive heuristics. This means the theorizing is pragmatic but not formally disciplined. Although it could elaborate ... More About: Problem , Bett , Slow
DADA DA
2007-05-23 14:25:00 After borrowing Ken Wilber?s latest book,Integral Spirituality from the library, I was moved to purchase it because I had dipped into it and read the following on page 176: The myth of the given or monological consciousness is essentially another name for phenomenology and mere empiricism in any of a hundred guises–whether regular empiricism, radical empiricism, ...
MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE
2007-05-21 17:16:00 I went to my 35th high school reunion this weekend. I graduated in 1972 from Hawken School, having entered as a 10th grader. At the time Hawken,a private ‘prep school,’ was an all-male academy. Two years after my class graduated, women were admitted. Everything, apparently, changed! 1972 was a year in a storied era: Nixon, Nam, ... More About: Cert
IN AND OUT OF DA HEAD
2007-04-25 12:03:00 excerpt Human beings have a tendency to ‘live in their heads’. This phrase covers several facts. First, men have a tendency to overtheorize. Some things are ruined by too much thinking on them, things which are essentially matters of experience. What is more, almost anything can be source of immediate experience, and so almost anything is ... More About: Head
INSTANT ORACLE
More articles from this author:2007-04-22 12:03:00 All encounter begins with a benediction, contained in the word ‘hello’; that ‘hello’ that all cogito, all reflection on oneself already presupposes and that would be a first transcendence.? ? Emmanuel Levinas Instant Oracle - An exercise of Experiential Martial Arts Here’s a fun exercise you can do with your friends on a rainy day. Because the ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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