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Monthly Archives: February 2025
Campus Life at the
Joseph Stiglitz was born
on this day in 1943
Joseph Stiglitz – the American economics professor, author, and Nobel laureate – was born on this day – February 9, 1943 – Gary, Indiana.
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Campus Life at the
University of Brighton
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In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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Five American Universities
to follow on Twitter
Campus Life at
Boston College
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Google Maps was launched
on this day in 2005
Google Maps was launched on this day – February 8 – in 2005.
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Campus Life at
Duke University
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What happens on the imperial level also happens at the local level, within the United States and the Western European societies that make the rules of globalization. Non-technocrats, whether they are the resentful members of the old working class or just people wisecracking about the progressive pieties of corporate human resource managers, are not going to be permitted to tangle up the system with their demands.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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