“The propensity of American university professors to eat their lunch in front of a computer screen is among the strangest things a European academic will encounter upon taking a posting in the United States.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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Monthly Archives: May 2024
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If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Serious reflexion about one’s own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Campus Life at the
University of Plymouth
Microsoft acquired Skype on this day in 2011
Microsoft aquired Skype on this day – May 10 – in 2011.
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Tate Modern Gallery
turns 24 today
The Tate Modern Gallery in London, England was opened on this day – May 11 – in 2000.
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Campus Life at the
University of California – Riverside
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In a world that otherwise values competition, effort, and merit, the British have allowed their state to be governed by the purest chance. It seems like a formula for disaster. Instead, it has produced 350 years of constitutional stability.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
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There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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