When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
~ Milan Kundera
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Daily Archives: September 20, 2024
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An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
~ Walter Bagehot
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Campus Life at the
Colorado College
The iPhone 11
was released on this day in 2019
The iPhone 11 was released today – September 20, 2019 – having been unveiled 10 days earlier at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California by Apple CEO Tim Cook. The iPhone 11 featured the A13 Bionic chip, an ultra-wide dual-camera system and a 4G LTE modem.
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The iPhone 5C was released on this day in 2013
The iPhone 5C was released today – September 20 – in 2013.
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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Learning Object
Via @ibm
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Campus Life at the
University of Cincinnati
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The protocols and norms that emerged in the aftermath of 18th-century revolutions — the inviolability of private property, the abstract idea of the rights-bearing individual, the fiscal-military nation-state — are today under attack as forms of privilege themselves.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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The post-liberal university is defined by a combination of moneymaking and activism. Perhaps the biggest difference between 1968 and 2024 is that the ideas of a radical vanguard are now the instincts of entire universities—administrators, faculty, students. They’re enshrined in reading lists and codes of conduct and ubiquitous clichés.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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