Posts for August 2008
The Humanities
In the summer 2008 Wilson Quarterly, Wilfred McClay, SunTrust Chair of Humanities at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, calls us to consider once again the importance of study of the humanities, i.e. a collection of disciplines including literature and language, history, philosophy, comparative religion, ethics, history and theory of the arts – and related sub-disciplines [...]
Published on Aug 18, 2008 at 9:02 am. No Comments.
The Obsession with Keeping One’s Options Open
Two recent articles point to a phenomenon of our age, and particularly of the rising generation: the obsession with keeping one’s options open.
In the February 26 New York Times, John Tierney describes MIT professor Dan Ariely’s experiment for which he devised a computer game that paid real cash for players to look behind three [...]
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Published on Aug 4, 2008 at 9:34 am. No Comments.