William James

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A Flyover Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

Rebecca Solnit (BSS #312)

The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Rebecca Solnit is most recently the author of A Paradise Built in Hell. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Finding hostility within legitimate clarification. Author: Rebecca Solnit Subjects Discussed: William James’s second treatise on pragmatism, the alternative notion which means the same as a preexisting notion, General Funston’s martial response to the 1906 earthquake vs. Pauline Jacobson’s...

Money as Symbolic

OmniNerd News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

I attended the annual convention of the National Communication Association last week in Chicago. The meeting was an opportunity for me to present two papers on the rhetoric of political economy. I wanted to give a snippet view of one of my papers, “Substitution and Atonement in Kenneth Burke’s Symbolic of Money.” The paper is adapted from a larger work I published this summer in...

Marriott International Developing Green Hotels

GlobalGiants.Com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

ENLARGE Photo: Marriott International will expand its green hotel portfolio ten-fold in five years, with a new green hotel prototype for its Courtyard brand that will be pre-certified LEED(R) (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by the U.S. Green Building Council. Shown here, the Courtyard Portland City Center, which is certified LEED-Gold. (© Marriott International, Inc., William...

Veterans Day

Omniorthogonal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

For the Union Dead Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded. The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales. The airy tanks are dry. Once my nose crawled like a snail on the glass; my hand tingled to burst the bubbles drifting from the noses of the cowed, compliant fish. My hand draws back. I often sigh still...

Blackmore: Remembering the Second World War (2)

Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Blackmore’s War Memorial contains only the names of those who served in the First World War. The only commemoration to those who served in the Second World War (1939 – 1945) is a handwritten list, in two frames, attached to a pillar near the entrance door to the Priory Church of St Laurence. Each sheet is titled “ON ACTIVE SERVICE”, and at the foot, “FOR KING AND COUNTRY”....

Gaston Bachelard on the Middle Path

The Plumbline School (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

I was reshelving a book in my office and noticed a volume on the shelf that I hadn't picked up in a couple of years-- a collection of selections from the work of Gaston Bachelard, On Poetic Imagination and Reverie (edited by Collette Gaudin). I remembered being disappointed when I first got the book that it was a collection of snippets rather than something more substantial. I pulled the book off the...

Increase in intellectual standing of newborns

Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

One great blooming, buzzing confusion — that was how William James, a 19th-century psychologist, described how the world would look to a newborn baby. But over the past decades science has revealed that from birth we are armed with the basic building blocks of language, mathematics and music that we need to make sense of what we see and hear.

What's the best way to take a study break?

Cognitive Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

Greta and I did our undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, or as a commonly-sold T-shirt on campus put it, "where fun goes to die." To say that Chicago didn't emphasize academics over a social life is to deny that people literally lived in the library (a full-scale campsite was found behind one of the stairwells in the stacks; students had been living there for months). It's...

William James

Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” William James quotes

Boston Blotter: T Cops Grab Gropers

Bostonist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

Blotter siren -- T police arrested two men on unrelated counts of indecent assault and battery yesterday. William Carlyle, a 52-year-old Boston man, was nabbed at Copley Station after allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks on the Green Line platform at Park Station. And William James was picked up for allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks on a Red Line platform at Quincy Center Station last June. [MBTA...

A brief look at Ayn (rhymes with "pine")

Opinion Dominion (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn't Win -- New York Magazine A pretty amusing review of a new Ayn Rand biography. Some lines I liked: "...her temperament could have neutered an ox at 40 paces" “Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive,” she once wrote, “and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.” As a child, she was solitary, opinionated, possessive, and...

teach your teachers well....,

subrealism (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

NYTimes | ARNE DUNCAN, the secretary of education, recently called for sweeping changes to the way we select and train teachers. He’s right. If we really want good schools, we need to create a critical mass of great teachers. And if we want smart, passionate people to become these great educators, we have to attract them with excellent programs and train them properly in the substance and practice...

• Op-Ed Contributor: Teach Your Teachers Well - New York Times

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)

Critic After Dark (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

King of pain Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker has been called the best film yet made about the war in Iraq, and one can see where they’re coming from--it’s crude yet coherent, understated yet intense, and it knows that first and foremost, before you even deal with the politics of war, you portray its head rush, the ‘drug’ mentioned in the film’s opening titles....

"The greatest revolution in our generation is...

Dialectical Migrations (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

"The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." -- William James (1842-1910)

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sunny225 | 06/23/2009

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