Monthly Archives: May 2024
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Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
~ Marcel Proust
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Tate Liverpool Gallery
turns 36 today
The Tate Liverpool Gallery in Liverpool, England was opened on this day – May 24 – in 1988.
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Why do companies struggle to use ideas produced by universities? The loss of the corporate lab is one part of the answer. Such institutions were home to a lively mixture of thinkers and doers. In the 1940s Bell Labs had the interdisciplinary team of chemists, metallurgists and physicists necessary to solve the overlapping theoretical and practical problems associated with developing the transistor. That cross-cutting expertise is now largely gone.
~ via The Economist
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What’s at stake, when we ask what college is for, is nothing less than our ability to remain fully human.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Campus Map
Michigan State University
www.msu.edu | Wikipedia | LinkedIn | YouTube
[Twitter] @michiganstateu
[Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/michiganstateu/
[Snapchat] https://www.snapchat.com/add/michiganstateu
[Facebook] https://www.facebook.com/spartans.msu/
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Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Campus Map
University of Miami
www.miami.edu | Wikipedia | LinkedIn | YouTube
[Twitter] @univmiami
[Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/univmiami/
[Facebook] https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofMiami
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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