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Realer than Likability

September 22, 2011

This summer I’ve been reading The Corrections by one of the great writers of our time, Jonathan Franzen, so I was particularly anxious to read an excerpt from his commencement address at Kenyon College this spring, which I found in The Week. I’ve been hanging on to the following thoughts of his for a while [...]

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Tech Alternatives Don’t Foster The Imagination of Humanness

June 8, 2011

This marks the last in a three-part installation of clips of Martha Craven Nussbaum’s 2011 Commencement address at Mount Holyoke College. Nussbaum’s commentary is incredibly timely, having come just before the announcement of Peter Theil’s pay-to-drop-out program for college students to start businesses and the heated conversation that entrepreneurs are having around education, illegal unpaid [...]

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Tech Alternative Ed is Not a Path to World Peace

June 3, 2011

In case you missed the previous post that sets the stage for the following clip, we’re taking a three-part look at Martha Craven Nussbaum’s address to the graduating seniors at Mount Holyoke College this past May. Ms. Nussbaum’s comments are timely, as we’re seeing a spate of people/orgs encouraging kids to drop out of college [...]

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The Numbers By Generation

June 10, 2010

Depending who you ask, there are roughly 79 million Baby Boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) in the United States. The first of them became eligible for Social Security two years ago. There are only 51 million members of Gen X (people born between 1965 and 1976). However, there are 75 million “Millenials” (1977 – 1998). Boomers [...]

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When Are They Ever Gonna Use This?

May 5, 2010

It’s so typical. People joke about the old algebra problem about two trains heading from two different stations at different speeds and figuring out how long it takes for them to collide. Or there’s the question about Farmer Jake, who has forty more sheep than Farmer Bill; if Farmer Jake gives half his sheep to [...]

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On Feynman and Us

April 29, 2010

Perhaps a thing is simple if you can describe it fully in several different ways without immediately knowing that you are describing the same thing. Richard Feynman, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1965 If you’ve ever listened to a Richard Feynman lecture or read his books, you’ll understand why I like to think that his greatest [...]

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