“We don’t hand out doctoral degrees here, but I thought it would be fun to give Max one,” Franklin said, noting that Vermont Public Radio covered the story. I, like anyone, will be misunderstood. So, let me be clear : I have no problem in Max the...
I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening? From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in "OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance," The Washington Post....
This morning's story, for me, is Patrick Jack's article in The Higher Education supplement, which examined the fallout in a conflict: Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom, with Kamna Patel, associate...
dumbassery Jump to navigationJump to search Contents 1English 1.1Etymology 1.2Noun 1.2.1Synonyms English[edit] Etymology[edit] From dumbass + -ery. Noun[edit] dumbassery (uncountable) (slang,vulgar,Canada, US) Immature, foolish behavior;...
Dear friends, What has happened in the United States is a shift of the weight of the Block-Thinking Division between "Religious" and "Secular". Let me unpack that phrasing. Block-thinking is the cognition motivated by the collective agenda of an interest group,...
What a day! Donald J. Trump becomes a convicted felon. 2. One of my significant academic-scholar mentor, John Moses past; and significantly, 3. an important review essay for the field of Australian contemporary studies-in-religion and social...
Dear Colleagues, Ingrid Moses messaged last night that John had died, after a long illness, although he was still quite sharp still in the last weeks and we had been messaging often. He was 91. Quite...
Review Essay: Matthew Hunter, Charles Taylor’s Sublime Shortcomings: The great philosopher’s book about poetry is provocative but disappointing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MAY 22, 2024. Charles Taylor (2024). Cosmic...
“The [UK] creation of the Office for Students by the 2017 Higher Education and Research Act to ‘encourage competition between English higher education providers’ and to ‘promote value for money’ has been particularly instrumental in promoting...