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I was sitting in a waiting room yesterday, and as I casually scanned the room, everyone’s head was staring down at their smartphones. No head was looking up except for me looking at them. 

The term heads-up is a message that alerts or prepares. Heads-up is used to call attention to danger or another important matter. Now, this is not to say that we shouldn’t look down because that’s how we discover and how we accomplish things. Yet, oh, how we miss so much, always looking down, hovering over a distraction that has us in a trance, and unable to tap into that present moment. Look up, take in the view, read the room, and discover something new and amazing today. 

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SCIENCE IS NOT YOUR ENEMY

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In an attempt to clarify another widespread misconception, I am exerpting only a small part of Stephen Pinker’s major article in a 1913 issue of the New Republic:

The humanities are the domain in which the intrusion of science has produced the strongest recoil. Yet it is just that domain that would seem to be most in need of an infusion of new ideas. By most accounts, the humanities are in trouble. University programs are downsizing, the next generation of scholars is un- or underemployed, morale is sinking, students are staying away in droves. No thinking person should be indifferent to our society’s disinvestment from the humanities, which are indispensable to a civilized democracy.

Diagnoses of the malaise of the humanities rightly point to anti-intellectual trends in our culture and to the commercialization of our universities. But an honest appraisal would have to acknowledge that some of the damage…

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Review: More Jules Verne, with Mutiny, aka Les Révoltés de la “Bounty” — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

I found this book surprising. Thank you again, librivox.org! “Merci, librivox.org ! I didn’t know that this film began life as a French novel!  And the film doesn’t start at the mutiny… Je ne savais pas que c’était un roman Français ! Aussi, le film n’avait pas commençait par le mutiny… Divided into […]

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♫ If I Could Turn Back Time ♫ — Filosofa’s Word

I was at a loss for a song tonight, unless you count the Osmond Brothers earworm that our friend Keith planted earlier this evening!  So, it being after 3:00 a.m., and me having planned to go to bed no later than 1:30, I did a quick skip through my archives and found this one by […]

♫ If I Could Turn Back Time ♫ — Filosofa’s Word

January 6th Committee And More … — Filosofa’s Word

Yesterday I watched what I presume will be the final televised hearing of the January 6th Committee.  At a few points I felt tears welling up, at other points rage took over.  I must commend the committee for they have done an excellent and thorough job, despite the obstacles they have had to overcome.  As […]

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Ricapitolando [14/10/2022] — Barbara Picci

Ecco la lista degli articoli pubblicati nell’ultima settimana. OPERE “Self-Portrait of You + Me (Sean Connery)” by Douglas Gordon “I Have Grown Taller from Standing with Trees” by Claudia Comte “Gangorra (Seesaw)” by Monica Piloni “Forgetting Is The Only Continuum” by Mel Bochner “Ombra di terra” by Giuseppe Penone “A Belgian Politician” by Marius Ritiu […]

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Streetart – Jana und JS @ Vienna, Austria — Barbara Picci

Jana und JS @ Vienna, Austria Jana und JS @ Vienna, Austria Jana und JS @ Vienna, Austria Jana und JS @ Vienna, Austria Location: Vienna, Austria Artists: Jana und JS For: Kaiserschild-Stiftung, Calle Libre, home4students Address: Schäffergasse / Waaggasse USEFUL LINKS: Jana und JS su questo blog | Website | Instagram | Facebook fan […]

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