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Archive for May, 2008

I’m alive

Posted in Thought Drafts on May 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »

A long absence, and what do I have to show for it? Two things: an extremely tentative PhD thesis title and a new appreciation of the entwined perils of Narrowness and Overambition in PhD work. Brief thoughts –
I started thinking about Narrowness quite early on this year. It was especially striking when I attended a [...]

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links for 2008-05-18

Posted in Links on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

snopes.com: A Tale of Two Houses
Gore vs Bush. don’t judge a man by his powerpoint?
(tags: hypocrisy environment busted! america)

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links for 2008-05-15

Posted in Links on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Bad Writing Contest
“That these passages constitute bad writing is merely our opinion; it is arguable that anyone wanting to pursue an academic career should assiduously imitate such styles as are represented here. These are your role models.”
(tags: academic jargon writing english philosophy)

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bookporn #32: NYC bookstore (I): somewhere on broadway

Posted in Bookporn on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »

a most excellent bookstore somewhere on Broadway, NYC, whose name I can neither remember nor decipher from the shopwindow. A glorious, crammed place! Wallspace and floorspace are colonized with equal vigour: books and DVDs line the slender, precarious staircase that dissects the shop down the middle; books are stuffed into every shelf crevice and occupy [...]

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links for 2008-05-04

Posted in Links on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Google Video: Eversion of a Sphere
AWESOME
(tags: awesome topology video)

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links for 2008-05-03

Posted in Links on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Radical Middle Newsletter: What the Poor Need Now
“He couldn’t believe I lived on a pittance so I could write what I felt was the truth about things.”
(tags: poverty truestories journalism america beinghuman)

TheStar.com | Books | History in the eye of the beholder
The Uses and Abuses of History – to investigate.
(tags: books toread history academic usesofthepast)

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