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Monthly Archives: August 2025
Campus Life at
Robert Solow was born
on this day in 1924
Robert Solow – the American economics professor, author, and Nobel laureate – was born on this day – August 23, 1924 – in New York City.
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Campus Life at
CSU Bakersfield
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A document called “syllabus” persists, and is still distributed to prospective students at the start of each semester—but its function as a course plan has been minimized, if not entirely erased. First and foremost, it must satisfy a drove of bureaucratic needs, describing school policies, accreditation demands, regulatory matters, access to campus resources, health and safety guidelines, and more.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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A world dominated by the technologies of industrial society is fundamentally more detrimental than beneficial to human happiness and survival.
~ Kirkpatrick Sale
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Campus Life at
Minnesota State Mankato
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The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.
~ Charles MacKay
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