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Introduction to Ancient Greek History

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:31:14 GMT

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Introduction to Ancient Greek History with Professor Donald Kagan

Course Contents: Introduction to Ancient Greek History; Syllabus; Class sessions; Downloads; Survey

About the Course

This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars. view class sessions >>

This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 75 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2007.

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote & image

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:15:48 GMT

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Truth; Realism. Are you not scared by seeing that the Gypsies are more attractive to us than the Apostles? For though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

THE HEART OF EMERSON'S JOURNALS

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Artforms of Nature

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:10:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his fantastically illustrated book Artforms of Nature. The copyright for this book from 1904 has now expired and thanks to Wikimedia Commons it is available for everyone to appreciate.

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Artforms of Nature

The nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his fantastically illustrated book Artforms of Nature. The copyright for this book from 1904 has now expired and thanks to Wikimedia Commons it is available for everyone to appreciate.

Haekel's artistic interpretation of the biological forms he studied have a clarity of symmetry and detail that has been a source of inspiration for many artists and engineers over the years. They provide the perfect subject matter for the Fractal Explorer plugin.

All images here are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.

Erwin James

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:12:56 GMT

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Erwin James Monahan was born to itinerant Scottish parents in Somerset in 1957. A family lifestyle described as, “brutal and rootless” by a prison psychologist following the death of his mother when James was seven, led to a limited formal education. Aged ten he was sleeping rough when he gained his first criminal conviction, for the burglary of a sweet shop, which resulted in him being taken into care. He left the care home at 15 and spent the rest of his teenage and early adult years drifting, living with extended family members, and again often sleeping rough. During that time he worked in various labouring jobs, but also committed relatively petty, mostly acquisitive, but occasionally violent crimes (criminal damage, common assault.) His directionless way of life, which included a period in the French Foreign Legion, continued, until August 1984 when he began his life sentence. Ian Katz: The Guardian and Erwin James

A Precious Gift for Lovers of Literature

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:09:33 GMT

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The Paris Review Interview Archive

"Since 1953, when the first issue of the magazine appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, our Q&A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: the Paris Review interview. More than fifty years—and more than three hundred interviews—later, the archive continues to grow with each new issue of the magazine. In November 2006, the first volume of a four-book set of The Paris Review Interviews was celebrated by reviewers across the English-speaking world. In tandem with this publishing project, we offer here online a complete index of every interview ever published, searchable by author and by date—as well as a substantial sampling of the archive’s finest interviews, posted in their entirety. Taken together, these conversations with novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, biographers, journalists, and critics constitute what Salman Rushdie calls “the finest available inqui

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INTERVIEW ARCHIVE INDEX

Search the Interview Archive

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1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

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P-T

U-Z

CONRAD AIKEN
1968

Recalling a dinner with T. S. Eliot: “He was wearing a cowboy hat, and we all got plastered . . . He couldn't walk, for his ankles were crossed, so Valerie lifted him into the taxi.”

EDWARD ALBEE
1966

“Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf . . . who's afraid of living life without false illusions.”

SAUL BELLOW
1966

“I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.”

JORGE LUIS BORGES
1967

On color: “When I began to lose my sight, the last color I saw was yellow, because it is the most vivid of colors. I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.”

JEAN COCTEAU
1964

“. . . Appreciation of art is a moral erection; otherwise mere dilettantism. I believe sexuality is the basis of all friendship.”

The Romance of Alexander the Great

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:23:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The gorgeous full and half page illuminated manuscript miniatures seen above - definitely click through to large and very large versions for the full impact - were produced by the workshop of the Flemish illuminator, Jehan de Grise, between 1338 and 1344.

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The Romance of Alexander' was originally produced in Greek in about 200-300 AD from a variety of written accounts and stories from the oral tradition. It purports to record the history of Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) but is really a fantastical amalgam of legend and fact that catapulted the already remarkable accomplishments of Alexander's thirty two years on the planet to mythological status

Attributed to an unknown author called Pseudo-Callisthenes

not really a single work but a great evolving and heterogeneous collection of texts and manuscripts, often shaped by regional scribes and translators to fit the pervading culture. Impossible deeds were often attributed to Alexander - his encounter with a tribe of headless men, for instance

an ascent into the air in a basket borne by eagles, a descent into the ocean in a diving bell, a meeting with the Amazons, an interview with the Brahmans or naked philosophers, and the search for the Water of Life

Why all cities are haunted

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:24:58 GMT

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Megalopolisomancy, Or Why All Cities Are Haunted

Your city seethes with ghosts. Its impossibly twisted streets stream with magic, and its chimneys exude smoke of a decidedly hallucinatory nature. Why do modern, urban places feel as if they are home to so many unexplainable, otherworldly forces?

History and the Unknowable

Why are vampires' mythical, bloodstained faces hidden in trashed alleyway shadows in your city? Because most cities aren't just packed with people. They are layered with history - sometimes many thousands of years of it. Even in relatively new cities like San Francisco or Toronto, several dead generations have walked the streets before you. They've lived in your houses, and gone to your favorite shops.

Like vampires, these unknowable phantoms of history are hidden. But their influence lingers in the present. When you go into the buildings they built, buy their used clothing at the Goodwill, and eat in the dining rooms where they once did, you brush shoulders with the dead.

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Seven Japanese aesthetic principles

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:09:48 GMT

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Below are just seven design-related principles (there are more) that govern the aesthetics of the Japanese garden and other art forms in Japan.

Kanso (簡素) Simplicity or elimination of clutter. Things are expressed in a plain, simple, natural manner.

Fukinsei (不均整) Asymmetry or irregularity. The idea of controlling balance in a composition via irregularity and asymmetry is a central tenet of the Zen aesthetic.

Shibui/Shibumi (渋味) Beautiful by being understated, or by being precisely what it was meant to be and not elaborated upon. Direct and simple way, without being flashy. Elegant simplicity, articulate brevity.

Shizen (自然) Naturalness. Absence of pretense or artificiality, full creative intent unforced.

Yugen (幽玄) Profundity or suggestion rather than revelation.

Datsuzoku (脱俗) Freedom from habit or formula. Escape from daily routine or the ordinary. Unworldly. Transcending the conventional.

Seijaku (静寂)Tranquility or an energized calm (quite), stillness, solitude.

7 Photography Projects to Jumpstart your Creativity

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:15:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More great ideas from Digital Photography School. If you are into photography this is one site you should keep up with. They have a weekly newsletter that makes it easy too.

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Let’s face it, no matter how much we take our camera out, there’s only so many pictures we can take of our kids, pets, house and garden before we start itching to shoot something else… but what?

Hopefully this list of projects you can undertake will inspire you to find something creative to shoot.

1. 365 Days

there are multiple variations of the 365 project

self-portrait

kids

open-topic

2. 52 Photowalks

get out of the house once a week with your camera

3. 100 Strangers

the 100 Strangers group

4. A-Z

You can also try this with numbers

5. Pick-A-Something

Pick something and try to get a collection of photos representing it

For instance, pick a color

or try only getting pictures of things that are square

photos of people’s shoes

6. Go Mono

During my 365 (open-topic, not self-portraits), I decided to take one month and do all my photos in black-and-white

7. Scavenger Hunt

DPS Scavenger Hunt group

PS from Darren: Also check out our weekly Assignments in the DPS forums for a little inspiration

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The Bible in Stained Glass

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:19:30 GMT

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La Nativité

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Thèmes bibliques :

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Jésus bénissant les enfants

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La tentation de Jésus

By imagining many possible worlds fiction can chang our Minds

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:36:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "For more than two thousand years people have insisted that reading fiction is good for bookyou. Aristotle claimed that poetry—he meant the epics of Homer and the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, which we would now call fiction—is a more serious business than history. History, he argued, tells us only what has happened, whereas fiction tells us what can happen, which can stretch our moral imaginations and give us insights into ourselves and other people. This is a strong argument for schools to continue to focus on the literary arts, not just history, science, and social studies.

But is the idea of fiction being good for you merely wishful thinking?'

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Changing our Minds

By imagining many possible worlds, argues novelist and psychologist Keith Oatley, fiction helps us understand ourselves and others.

People often think that a fiction is something untrue, but this is wrong. The word derives from the Latin fingere, to make. As something made, fiction is different from something discovered, as in physics, or from something that happened, as in the news. But this does not mean it is false. Fiction is about possible selves in possible worlds

In terms of 21st-century psychology, we might best see fiction as a kind of simulation: one that runs not on computers, but on minds. Such mental simulation unfolds on two levels.

The first level involves simulating the minds of other people: imagining what they are thinking and feeling, which developmental psychologists call "theory of mind

The theory-of-mind simulation is like a watch, which is a small model that simulates the alternation of day and night as the earth rotates.

Philosophical Weblogs

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:26:29 GMT

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Philosophical Weblogs

This is a list of weblogs that are devoted to topics in and around analytic philosophy, or that are by analytic philosophers. Suggestions for addition are welcome.

Bioethics (Bioethics.net)

Group Weblogs (Topical)

Ethics (Ethics Etc)

Philosophy of Mind (Brains)

Philosophy of Mind (Brain Pains)

Metaphysics (Matters of Substance)

Philosophy of Sport

Philosophy of Time

Philosophy Talk

Teaching Philosophy (In Socrates' Wake)

What Sorts of People Should There Be?

Philosophy of Religion (Prosblogion)

Political Philosophy (Public Reason)

Philosophy of Science (It's Only A Theory)

Philosophy of Art

Gender, Race, and Philosophy

Free Will/Responsibility (Garden of Forking Paths)

Feminist Philosophers

Formal Epistemology (Choice and Inference)

Ethics (Pea Soup)

Ethics of Resource Allocation

Experimental Philosophy

Group Weblogs (Local)

ANU (Probably Possible)

London (Bloggin the Question)

Philosophers (= roughly: Philosophy Ph.D.)

Anton Alterman (Brain Scam)

Albert Atkin (The Wages of Ignorance)

Melusine

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:02:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A 14th century fresh water mermaid.

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Melusine (or Melusina) is a figure of European legends and folklore, a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers.

She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails or both, and sometimes referred to as a nixie.

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the story outlines the consequences for her human husband after he watches the changeling Melusine bathe against her wishes (or similar).

These cropped details are from a 1468 'Melusine' manuscript, hosted by the German National Museum.

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Melusina (France, Thomas Keightley)

Melusina (Luxembourg)

Melusina (Germany, Ludwig Bechstein)

Melusina (Germany, Joh. Aug. Ernst Köhler)

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Melusine legends are especially connected with the northern, most Celtic areas of Gaul, and the Low Countries. Sir Walter Scott told a Melusine tale in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802 -1803)

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Melusine” in the Russell Cotes Museum

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Strange jellies of the icy depths

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:01:51 GMT

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New details are emerging about the life-forms that survive in one of the world's most inaccessible places.

Scientists have published descriptions of a range of jelly-like animals that inhabit the deep oceans of the Arctic.

The animals were originally filmed and photographed during a series of submersible dives in 2005.

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The small blue jelly, a type of Narcomedusae, is new to science.

One of the biggest surprises is that one of the most common animals in the Arctic deep sea is a type of jellyfish that is completely new to science.

In pictures: Icy jellies

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Crossota millsae, a brilliant red and purple jellyfish found at a depth of 2000m in the Arctic Ocean, is also found off California and Hawaii.

an international team of scientists

conducted a series of deep-sea dives using a remote operated vehicle

There were a lot of surprises

just how many different jellies there were, and the sizes of their populations

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The large bright orange Aulacoctena species may get its colour from worms that it eats

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10 Fascinating Bioluminescent Organisms

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:18:58 GMT

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Glowing Mushrooms (Mycena lux-coeli mushrooms)

During Japan's rainy season, a glow-in-the-dark mushroom begins to sprout in Wakayama prefecture. The Mycena lux-coeli mushrooms sprout from fallen chinquapin trees and as they grow, a

Hawaiian Bobtail Squid (Euprymna scolopes)

of the deep ocean, some animals create their own light. Among these is the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes, which forms a partnership with the luminous bacterium Vibrio fischeri. The squid houses colonies of these bacteria in

Alarm jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)

Some animals use their bioluminescence to "scream" for help.

Jack-O-Lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olearius)

Through metabolic and physiological functions, all living things must produce and ultimately dispose of waste.

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Introduction to Ancient Greek History

About the Course

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote & image

Artforms of Nature

Artforms of Nature

The nineteen century German biologist Ernst Haeckel is famous for his fantastically illustrated book Artforms of Nature. The copyright for this book from 1904 has now expired and thanks to Wikimedia Commons it is available for everyone to appreciate.

Erwin James

A Precious Gift for Lovers of Literature

The Romance of Alexander the Great

Why all cities are haunted

Megalopolisomancy, Or Why All Cities Are Haunted

Seven Japanese aesthetic principles

7 Photography Projects to Jumpstart your Creativity

1. 365 Days

2. 52 Photowalks

3. 100 Strangers

4. A-Z

5. Pick-A-Something

6. Go Mono

7. Scavenger Hunt

The Bible in Stained Glass

La Nativité

Jésus bénissant les enfants

La tentation de Jésus

By imagining many possible worlds fiction can chang our Minds

Philosophical Weblogs

Philosophical Weblogs

Melusine

Strange jellies of the icy depths

10 Fascinating Bioluminescent Organisms

Glowing Mushrooms (Mycena lux-coeli mushrooms)

Hawaiian Bobtail Squid (Euprymna scolopes)

Alarm jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei)

Jack-O-Lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olearius)

Luminescent Panellus (Panellus stipticus)

Ctenophore Bathocyroë

Dinoflagellates

Crystal jelly (Aequorea Victoria)

Glow worm (Lampyris noctiluca)

Fireflies (Photinus pyralis)