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Set Brains On Fire: what is good?

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Set Brains On Fire. Commentary on contemporary educational issues and educational leadership; framed within a context of scholarly educational literature and juxtaposed with references to pop culture. Saturday, October 30, 2010. It doesn’t get any better than that. When it comes to the concept of the quality teaching, what is good? First off, the concept of quality itself is difficult to articulate. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Lila: An Inquiry into Morals. The pendulum has been in full swi...

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Educação é um Romance: Abril 2010

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Educação é um Romance. Proposta de um diário digital sobre os encontros, seus autores e estudos por meio de apresentações, falas e análise da obra. Um recorte sobre a Educação, professores, escola e nós. Alunos conhecendo os vários Romances. Segunda-feira, 26 de abril de 2010. José Lins do Rego. A delícia e a dor de ler a obra como intenção de retratar a realidade" GALVÃO, Ana 2010. Links para as obras (Menino de engenho - 1932 e O Moleque Ricardo - 1935). A Narrativa é uma proximidade com a História.

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Boulder: Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance | Back 2 Back Coast 2 Coast

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Back 2 Back Coast 2 Coast. Boulder: Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance. July 7, 2014. During the first weeks of our trip, Francien finally managed to finish Robert Pirsig. 8216;s classic “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – an inquiry into values” (1974). It had been on her reading list for more than 20 years, but apparently it took being on a road trip in the US herself to be able hop on the author’s motorcycle and go along with the story. On Sunday, we discovered that word about our trip ha...

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Twelve Links: Inorganic patterns of value

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Thursday, August 10, 2006. Inorganic patterns of value. Lila: An Inquiry into Morals. Pirsig, Lila, Ch.8). Pirsig goes about this "reversal" by attacking the concept of. Using a principle of empiricism - that all knowledge must come from experience - and also a kind of underdetermination argument. But if there is no substance, it must be asked, then why isn't everything chaotic? Why do our experiences act as if they inhere in something? Ibid, Ch.8). The empiricist argument points out that we have no know...

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Twelve Links: Smolin on relational physics

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Monday, August 07, 2006. Smolin on relational physics. Lee Smolin is a process physicist who I find very interesting to read. The below is from an article featured in Brockman's. The Third Culture: Beyond The Scientific Revolution -. Which you can link to here http:/ www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/z-Ch.17.html. In which he talks about a relational model of physics as having the potential to provide a theoretical basis for the elusive quantum theory of gravity. Bold italics are my emphasis:. This is ...

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Twelve Links: August 2006

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Some more thoughts about "values" as providing a descriptive basis of a workable paradigm. In retrospective terms, we could say that evolution is the creation of valuable. Information through selective replication and innovation. That is, information - and its phenotypic extension - that survives environmental pressures becomes valuable by virtue of its being successfully propagated. Which pursues this same naturalisation. Pirsig, Lila, Ch11). Note: So Dynamic Quality has to c...

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Twelve Links: Suffering succotash

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Monday, August 14, 2006. Further thoughts on karma, suffering and evolution. I have linked the. Aspect of karma with suffering by virtue of the. Element of evolution (biological and cultural). The flip-side of this condition of suffering is the clinging to patterns in the face of the. Thus we have the twin barbs of suffering:. Wanting things to change when they are constrained to stay the same. Wanting things to stay the same when they are driven to change. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Twelve Links: Latest stats on the Evolution vs Creation debate in the U.S.

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Thursday, August 17, 2006. Latest stats on the Evolution vs Creation debate in the U.S. From New Scientist today - "Why doesn't America believe in evolution? By Jeff Hecht. (Not sure how Intelligent Design figures in these stats):. Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? Vol 313, p 765). That's despite a series of widely publicised advances in genetics, including genetic sequencing, which shows strong overlap of the human genome with those of chimpanze...

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Twelve Links: Quantum Darwinism

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Thursday, August 24, 2006. If one major thesis running through this blog is panrelationalism then another is the applicability of the basic premises of the Darwinian theory of evolution to almost any area of inquiry. Below is an article published in nature.com. In 2004 describing how Wojciech Zurek and colleagues have attempted to show how a Darwin-like process of selective propagation of information can be used to describe the transition from quantum to "preferred" classical states:. If it wasn't for qu...