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Thursday, March 24, 2005
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Fearsome memory techniques
Forget Me Not: How to win the U.S. memory championship. By Joshua Foer Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 9:57 AM PT http://www.slate.com/id/2114925/
Forget Me Not: How to win the U.S. memory championship. By Joshua Foer Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2005, at 9:57 AM PT http://www.slate.com/id/2114925/
On the university and education...
"In ''Harvard Rules,'' Bradley describes the case of Joe Green, an undergraduate disillusioned by his experience as a student representative on the committee evaluating the Core Curriculum. ''Green kept thinking about a question one of his professors had put to him: 'If you could either go here and get no diploma, or not go here and get the diploma, what would you do?' '' Bradley writes. ''It bothered Green that he couldn't easily answer the question.'' It should bother the president of Harvard, too. The answer, in the end, is the difference between a great university and a brand name."
The Tempest in the Ivory Tower By RACHEL DONADIO Published: March 17, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/books/books-harvard.html?pagewanted=1
"In ''Harvard Rules,'' Bradley describes the case of Joe Green, an undergraduate disillusioned by his experience as a student representative on the committee evaluating the Core Curriculum. ''Green kept thinking about a question one of his professors had put to him: 'If you could either go here and get no diploma, or not go here and get the diploma, what would you do?' '' Bradley writes. ''It bothered Green that he couldn't easily answer the question.'' It should bother the president of Harvard, too. The answer, in the end, is the difference between a great university and a brand name."
The Tempest in the Ivory Tower By RACHEL DONADIO Published: March 17, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/books/books-harvard.html?pagewanted=1
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Iraqi Librarian Becomes Cultural Hero in 2 Children's BooksBy EDEN ROSS LIPSON Published: March 17, 2005
"It is hard to imagine how startled Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of Basra, Iraq, has been to discover that she is the hero of two American children's books. Ms. Baker, who rescued 30,000 books just days before the city's main library was burned during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, has sent e-mail messages recently to thank the authors for "showing us Iraqis as an educated people" and says she was surprised but also happy that the books "describe the truth.""
Interesting observation:
"Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe.
So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word "sinful" is most commonly associated with chocolate."
Saturday Night Lite By David Brooks Published: March 12, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/opinion/12brooks.html?ex=1111381200&en=5e1cc2602df9a75d&ei=5070
"Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe.
So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word "sinful" is most commonly associated with chocolate."
Saturday Night Lite By David Brooks Published: March 12, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/opinion/12brooks.html?ex=1111381200&en=5e1cc2602df9a75d&ei=5070
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