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OED #WordOfTheDay: J-stroke, n.
In canoeing: a paddle stroke resembling the letter J, consisting of a straight forward stroke followed by a rotation of the face of the paddle outward.
View the full entry: oxford.ly/4cI45Em
ALT The OED definition of \u2018J-stroke\u2019,\u00A0today\u2019s word of the day.\n
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Aristotle’s schema employs things like formal cause and final cause, which modern science eschewed. Fair enough, insofar as it has allowed us to *do* more. But our understanding is far less. When physics is ultimately math, as at present, we don’t actually understand anything
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Here is why I made this outrageous claim:
1. Big state schools are vulnerable to the worst trends in GenEd, such as asynchronous online courses.
2. State university systems have been slashing languages, philosophy, literature etc along with theoretical math, chem, physics .. 1/x
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I've spent years working to disprove the so-called "sunk-cost fallacy" and I'm not going to stop now.
Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, “chameleon”.
Until about a century ago, most publishers did “this.” But many publishers now do ‘this’, or “this”. Find out what happened, and why, in this newly updated post at CMOS Shop Talk. cmosshoptalk.com/2020/10/20/…
“It is so easy to think of oneself as Socrates … until the hemlock is served.”
I’d like to share some advice I give to my students–especially those of my students who aspire to academic careers.
Although it's natural and, in itself, good to desire and even seek affirmation, do not fall in love with applause. It is a drug. When you get some of it, you crave more. It can easily deflect you from your mission and vocation. In the end, what matters is not winning approval or gaining celebrity. Your mission and vocation is to seek the truth and to speak the truth as God gives you to grasp the truth.
There is a particular danger for those who dissent, as I do, and as many of my graduate students and top undergraduate students do, from the reigning orthodoxies of the prevailing intellectual culture. You may be tempted to suppose that your willingness to defy the career-making (and potential career-breaking) mandarins of elite opinion immunizes you from addiction to affirmation and applause and guarantees your personal authenticity and intellectual integrity.
It doesn’t.
We are all vulnerable to the drug. The vulnerability never completely disappears. And the drug is toxic to the activity of thinking (and thus to the cause of truth-seeking).
To me, the reality of this temptation, no less than any other temptation, should keep one mindful of the need constantly to tend the garden of one’s interior life. If anything can immunize us against the temptation to love applause above truth, it's prayer. We all need that immune system strengthener. Even those of us who think we are strong, who flatter ourselves with the thought that we are invulnerable to the lure of approval, are weak. In fact, in our self-flattery we are, perhaps, among the most vulnerable.
It is so easy to think of oneself as Socrates … until the hemlock is served.
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Brazos Fellows is pleased to be part of an exciting project being launched by @TASeminary and funded by a new $10 million grant from the Lilly Endowment. Read more about what this means here: brazosfellowsblog.wordpress.…
Mine was 50 cents because the library used book sale thought it worth no more…
The physical book is also of excellent quality, and not that pricey on Amazon. Discounted to less than $60 for the hardcover, and it’s 1200 pages!
a.co/d/18RV1Rj
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Published a piece on universities and AI (particularly in application to Oxford) in last week's Oxford Magazine.
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Our guest instructors at Brazos Fellows will include Dr. Elizabeth Corey, Dr. Charity Anderson, Joel Trigger, Dr. Alex Fogleman, @DWil76, Brittany McComb, Taylor Slusser, Dr. D.H. Williams, Dr. Joshua Mobley, @Patered, Fr. Andrew Hollinger, Fr. Daniel Wright, @E_E_Marvel,
Can we say: “One key plot line is to convince some gods to remember you exist and then eventually show favoritism in defiance of some other gods”?
It is less snappy, as poster talk goes.
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C.S. Lewis writing about living in a world with nuclear bombs. Always relevant.
ALT If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
First American born ever is either the biggest flex or you need to edit your AI content better.
HISTORIC ⚡
1975: This man made a shocking decision:
He rejected Harvard Law to serve Peru's poorest villages
Now, he's the 267th Pope
• Speaks ancient Incan
• Walked 8hrs to help the poor
• First American born ever
The untold story of new elected Pope Robert Prevost: 🧵
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
He graduated from high school in 1973 and college in 1977, so couldn’t have turned down Harvard Law in 1975.
press.vatican.va/content/salast…
