Context is all important in asking any question? And these days a key question is the importance of history. Pragmatic agendas of the daily grind obscure how significance the study of the past is for getting a perspective on how to live a better life. This blog looks at how different present contexts are better understood from what preceded.
The world has completely changed in 12 years for me (as "pictured"), although you can point out unimportant perennial themes, such as the wall items are the same in the office. It goes to how the 'stupid' read images in an image-obsessed culture. There are are too...
Dr Dzavid Haveric of Charles Sturt University is the leading historian in the story of Muslim-Australian experiences. He has also published about an Islamic leader, sometime ago, in Queensland history, who was a philosopher. His work covers those experiences of...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The second of a three post series. My youngest daughter gave the following birthday present: Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesserus (2022; editors). Knowledge and information: The Potential and Peril of...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The third and final of a three post series. My oldest daughter gave the following birthday present: some money and six cup cakes delivered to the door Our family has been very good at...
Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. For a treat I had my first formal "conversation" with 'generative artificial intelligence' (G.I.A.). It was weird as the G.I.A. reported clearer ideas, clearer intelligence, than the human beings who have decision-making powers...
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...
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...