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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Marshall McLuhan opined that a new medium first uses the content of an old medium. For example, the first narrative films imitated theater; the pioneers of photography emulated painting.
Whatever. I’ve been thinking about the blogging which primarily uses the medium of written language, more specifically printed language. It also seems bloggers write in […]
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Sure, you can get great classical literature at Project Gutenberg to download as e-books or even to convert to computer-generated ‘audiobooks’ (although you might not like listening to Ode to a Grecian Urn as interpreted orally by a text-to-voice software program). You can also download real audiofiles (mp3’s, wav’s, etc) from Librivox recordings. {This volunteer-run […]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Everyone knows standardized testing is a bunch of nonsense, and doesn’t signify anything of importance. Still, it’s fun to consider which students scored the worst. Regarding the verbal part of the GRE’s, here are the five lowest average scores by intended field of concentration. This does mean something, although understanding just what is probably difficult.
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
This is what Matthew W. Barrett , CEO of Barclay’s Bank had to say:
If you can get me a young person who can divine the patterns of imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, it would take me just a half hour to teach that person how to break down a balance sheet.
Teach kids the humanities, and […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
From my research, the best answer I can give is “I don’t know.” However, if you examine the work of educational researcher John Tyler, you will discover that studies indicate about 2% of GED holders complete the first year of college. If one were to extrapolate from this percentage, the percentage who actually receive a […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Do you find it odd that the book rated as the top selling title in Audiology on Amazon.com is a guide that provides suggestions on how to write stylistically superior prose? I thought it strange at first, but then it made perfect sense. I’m assuming there isn’t some strange anomaly like a misplaced category or […]
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