Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
~ Charles MacKay
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Daily Archives: February 12, 2025
Midday Music Fix
Alice In Chains – Stone
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Learning Object
via Ian Bremmer
Exporting AI in a responsible and secure way
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Quote, Unquote
Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Book Recommendation
Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu
Campus Map
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
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Campus Life at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
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Quote, Unquote
Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Five British Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
Quote, Unquote
Michel Houellebecq doesn’t just forecast current events; he satirizes them, dryly, with perfect pitch. His mimicry of the inflated language of marketing, bureaucratic euphemism, and hypertechnical mumbo jumbo finds the exact midpoint between amusing and appalling.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
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