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Grafton on the mission of the university. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. Grafton on the mission of the university. September 8, 2010 in Uncategorized. In a slightly dated article about the decline of universities in Britain, Anthony Grafton defines the mission of the modern university (in bold, below) and then goes on to discuss how recent budget measures in Britain have made it next to impossible for British universities to fulfill that mission:. Are academic salaries really the main source of the pressure on the principal? A Don’s Life. My Mo...
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Color me shocked. | Perplexed with Narrow Passages
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Perplexed with Narrow Passages. January 9, 2010 in The University in Ruins. And it’s going to shock you to find out that your intuitive sense that all those workshops and seminars and faculty development thingies were a complete waste of your time, was actually a scientific fact. Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Had these ideas been offered up for the public good, we might. But learning styles weren’t exactly. Sold for a song. Seems unlikely, doesn’t it? Learning styles will continue to gene...
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Jay Rosen on our Media Malaise: Who Will Tell the People? - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Open Source with Christopher Lydon. Http:/ media.blubrry.com/radioopensource/p/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/RadioOpenSourceWithChristopherLydon-JayRosen05Apr2012CambridgeMa/rosendraft02.mp3. Podcast: Play in new window. April 13, 2012. Jay Rosen on our Media Malaise: Who Will Tell the People? Jay Rosen on our Media Malaise: Who Will Tell the People? 8211; NYU journalism professor, social-media rock star and most thoughtful of press watchers. 8216;s last book of sermons. Nobody...
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Too Big To Fail: The First 5000 Years — Crooked Timber
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Too Big To Fail: The First 5000 Years. February 25, 2012. One of the many fascinating pieces of information that David Graeber tosses off like shrapnel in Debt. Is that the first recorded appearance of the word “freedom” in a political document is in a Sumerian proclamation of a debt amnesty or jubilee. 8217;s decision in 2009 to transfer the assets and deposits of Washington Mutual to JP. Tell me more about these exceptions! My word is my bond) is the motto of the London Stock Exchange). The first peopl...
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Wisconsin again — Crooked Timber
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February 19, 2011. 021911 at 5:30 am. Students have had such an amazing presence all week. On that note, see this:. Student energy and perspectives: three days of footage (Feb 15-17) from the Madison WI protests: http:/ bit.ly/e4eEz2. I see some West High students in it too. 021911 at 5:50 am. With not an iota of pride. Unlike her father. 021911 at 6:38 am. 021911 at 8:47 am. The Wisconsin protests are really inspiring. Keep posting! 021911 at 9:00 am. The emerging national common sense line, by the way,...
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Before and after | Under my byline
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By Rrishi on 11 December 2010. In the last year or two a handful of shows and publications (like this one. Have juxtaposed images of Himalayan glaciers from the 1950s and earlier with photos taken since 2000. The story to be filled in is, of course, the one about man-made climate change. Photographs are a good way to constructively frighten people. So that’s how I approached. Earth Then and Now: Potent Visual Evidence of Our Changing World. The same street now in St Peters...
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Business magic | Under my byline
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By Rrishi on 13 August 2011. Six days after it opened, three months ago, I happened by the Spell and Bound Bookshop and Café. In SDA Market, a prosperous corner of South Delhi. The market has restaurants and coffee places and one of the better-stocked. In the city. Primed by years of Harry Potter products, my eye was instantly captured by Spell and Bound’s forest-green and olde-worlde facade, with its promise of cosiness and warm bookery. All this was ready on the sixth day.
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Unfairport | Under my byline
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By Rrishi on 13 September 2010. Last week a design-related experience left me angry and unsettled. We went to pick up a relative at the new international airport. Terminal. The plane was to land around 3 am, so we were on the Gurgaon highway at about that time. The lane leading to the international airport exit was marked, on the big green signboards above the highway, thus: I.G.I.A. Terminal 3 . That lane took us along the facade of the arrivals hall. We stopped where...
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‘Everything is rotten. It has to be changed’ | Under my byline
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. 8216;Everything is rotten. It has to be changed’. By Rrishi on 25 June 2011. Back in the summer holidays of 1990, not yet 13 years old, I sat down to write a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev. He was then still General Secretary and head of state, and beloved of. Which came regularly to my school reading room. I wrote about myself and my family, that we liked the movies shown at the Soviet Cultural Centre. Foolish, childish, romantic? No, not very. In the newest issue of. We] st...
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Written in stone | Under my byline
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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By Rrishi on 15 May 2011. To Mount Kailash, Colin Thubron climbs out of his comfort zone. Of course this is a pilgrimage. Colin Thubron walks two weeks from remote western Nepal to the Tibet border, is carried by SUV to the foot of Mt Kailash and then performs the. But Thubron, now in his 70s, appears to struggle with the idea. His other books are travel narratives and novels. In 2000 he told the. 8221; Iswor asks, “Why are you doing this, travelling alone? Thubron went be...
