Oh, I was looking for the light saber… BBC News - Real-life Jedi: Pushing the limits of mind control http://t.co/tWa8H3aD
RT @TheNewDeal: We Don’t Want Welfare, We Want Jobs. We Don’t Hate Business, We Want Fairness. We Don’t Want Handouts, We Want Justice. #OWS
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“Joggey the what now?” O jogo do pau chega aos comics. O execuntante é o vilão Dr. Aesop (via reddit)
Video: Uma versão fascinante de uma das músicas populares mais emblemáticas das Beiras - Senhora do Almurtão http://t.co/B8zQAcpW
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Uma versão fascinante de uma das músicas populares mais emblemáticas das Beiras - Senhora do Almurtão
John Landis’ Burke and Hare has a couple of great shots of Dr. Knox’s anatomy theatre.
From the commentary section: it is quite similar to political debates. It is interesting the conversation turns to G_d so quickly - why did that happen?
AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other (by CornellCCSL)
Source: youtube.com
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Why Bother with Marshall McLuhan? » The New Atlantis →
In these circumstances, with so many ways to go wrong, I am tempted to suggest that McLuhan now be ignored — to argue that his greatest long-term value has been his ability to provoke people who are, if not simply smarter than he was, then more patient, methodical, and scholarly. McLuhan’s attempts to account for the general landscape of media are fragmentary and inconsistent; those of his friend Neil Postman, who in following McLuhan’s example virtually created the field of “media ecology,” are far superior in evidential detail and conceptual clarity. McLuhan’s interest in literary modernism, and especially in Joyce and Pound, yielded a few memorable apothegms; but his student and friend Hugh Kenner, inspired and directed by him, produced major, field-transforming work on both writers. McLuhan’s thoughts about oral and literate cultures, dependent largely on his reading of a few scholars of ancient oral poetry, lack historical grounding and intellectual rigor; but another of his students, Walter Ong, would make a great scholarly career specifying the lineaments of that historical transformation. The work of each of those scholars is far superior to anything that McLuhan ever wrote.
“The Anatomy of Influence”: Six Questions for Harold Bloom—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) →
If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state?
— From The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life.
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Niké!
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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![Now THIS is shock and awe!
fadedandblurred:
The eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Andes mountains of southern Chile last weekend provided some spectacular images of the force of nature.
[via The Big Picture]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhekis5fz1qdsohuo1_500.jpg)
Now THIS is shock and awe!
The eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Andes mountains of southern Chile last weekend provided some spectacular images of the force of nature.
[via The Big Picture]
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RT @Society: Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men - by Mara Hvistendahl. http://am …
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It Takes a Global Village: Distributed Cognition and the Digital-Age Classroom - the abstract
(The abstract of the paper I presented two weeks ago at the McLuhan Galaxy Conference in Barcelona)
By applying McLuhan’s “Global Village” and “Collective
Unconscious” metaphors to computer-mediated communication and online
social applications, this paper analyses some of the challenges and opportunities
of teaching “digital natives” in connected classrooms, in order to illustrate
changes brought to higher education by the distribution of cognition by
computers and digital networks. Discussing the relevance of generational
determinism for this debate, my argument will focus on the restructuring of
communication and information flows, from the standpoint of the effects of
information availability and literacy. I argue that the concept of “distributed
cognition” can enlighten the new practices brought to higher education
classrooms by the generalized use of information and communication
technologies.
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