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Daily Archives: January 5, 2024
Campus Life at the
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Five British Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Good design is consistent in every detail.
~ Dieter Rams
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The world’s leaders are correctly fixated on economic growth as the answer to virtually all problems, but they’re pushing it with all their might in the wrong direction.
~ Donella Meadows
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Generative AI Statement of the Day
via Brown University
The Generative AI Statement recently published by Brown University can be found here:
Potential impact of AI on our academic mission
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Painting can not, without falling into abstraction, let a partial aspect of art dominate, whether it be drawing, color, composition, or any other one of the extraordinary multiplicity of means the totality of which alone constitutes this art.
~ Gustave Courbet
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Bradley Cooper was born on this day in 1975
Bradley Charles Cooper — the American actor — was born on this day — January 5, 1975 — in Abington Township, Pennsylvania.
He holds a BA from Georgetown University — where he majored in English and minored in French — and an MFA in acting from the Actors Studio Drama School at The New School.
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