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Marcus Aurelius From The Virtual University (MICHAEL SUGRUE)
Image via Wikipedia This is a lecture, the first of a series about Marcus Aurelius. I’ve read the Meditations a couple of times and I’ve read Epictetus as well. However,…
Sterling Hayden On “Career”
These wonderful paragraphs are by Sterling Hayden, a Hollywood actor. He was a man of many talents and I’ll think you’ll like the writing. This is from the Wikipedia entry…
Can We Engineer Students to Where They Learn Without Teachers?
I was reading Norman J. LaFave’s Web site, Alterworld: Norman LaFave’s Science Fiction Musings on Writing, Science, Technology, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Policy. His current article, The Future of Learning…
The Myth of Morality, a Book by David Foster Wallace (via Patrick Nathan)
(This is a repost of an earlier post from May. I have added a thoroughly excellent BBC documentary.) I found this an interesting review with many references to morality. Take…
Positive Thinkers: Why do they Feel more Pain and Earn Less? (via Positive Thinking is Totally Lame?)
Oh, thank God, somebody is willing to say it. Every time, I go to the book store I stare in total disbelief at a wall of books explaining that your…
Could science prove that vanilla is better than chocolate? (via No Right to Believe)
Philosophy does enter into business ethics. Our author here discusses the idea that we can derive moral standards from science. It is an interesting take on the subject. Very practical…
An Excellent Lecture On Aristotle
An excellent, relatively brief and clearly ennuciated lecture on Aristotle. I enjoyed it. I continue my philosophical journey intent on mastering ethics and morality to add force and power to…
No Child Left Behind is an Educational Disaster – Educating My Students – To What End?
I have students. I am college professor. Generally speaking in these very tough economic times, they come to school not for an education but to get that piece of paper…
Gross National Happiness
Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the former king of Bhutan decided to develop an economic model more in tune with Bhuddist teachings. The result was a new measure call Gross National Happiness.…
How Do You Measure Happiness?
We live in a world of stories, facts and numbers. Numbers often drive politics even though many do not understand what those numbers mean. Numbers appear to be definite. One…
Borowitz Report
- Greece No Longer a Nation; Announces Plan to Become Social NetworkATHENS (The Borowitz Report) – After struggling for months with an intractable financial crisis, Greece announced today that it would cease to exist as a sovereign nation and would instead reboot itself as a social network. The new entity, FetaBook, is expected to raise much-needed billions in an upcoming IPO. The social network formerly known as Greece [... […]
- A Letter from Mark ZuckerbergMENLO PARK, CA (The Borowitz Report) – On the eve of Facebook’s IPO, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the following letter to potential investors: Dear Potential Investor: For years, you’ve wasted your time on Facebook. Now here’s your chance to waste your money on it, too. Tomorrow is Facebook’s IPO, and I know what some of you […]
- Hoping for Knockout Punch, CIA Sends JP Morgan Execs to Infiltrate Al-QaedaWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In a covert mission designed to destroy what remains of al-Qaeda, the CIA has been infiltrating the terror network with executives from JP Morgan Chase, the banking giant. The mission, which the intelligence agency had hoped to keep secret, came to light this week when al-Qaeda dismissed two of its top […]
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