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Not to Complicate Matters, but … - ChronicleReview.com

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The new devotion to complexity gives carte blanche to even the most trivial scholarly enterprise.

If you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with a serving of Dr. Frankfurt’s finest.

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Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: Re: [HM] Coauthorship (was: Oskar Morgenstern)

Monday, August 25, 2008

All this issue began in the late forties when, at Levi-Strauss’s request,
Andre Weil wrote an appendix (pp 278-285) to Claude’s famous book ‘Les
structures elementaires de la parente’”

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Anne Trubek on Why We Shouldn’t Still Be Learning Catcher in the Rye

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Its main appeal to students, he argued, is simply that the young like to read about the young, prefer short books, and ones without too many references to other books. Salinger, he says, “flatters [their] very ignorance and moral shallowness”

(Via Good Magazine:.)

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Legal Theory Blog: Intellectual Property and the Internet

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

“All the theory that fits”

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::: Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection :::

Monday, July 28, 2008

Eventually, all history is reduced to a term paper

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Dishonorary Degrees - ChronicleReview.com

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

causis honoris: “Mike Tyson’s 1989 doctorate in humane letters from Central State University, in Ohio. Kermit the Frog’s doctorate of amphibious letters, in 1996, from Southhampton College at Long Island University”

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Music of the spheres

Thursday, May 1, 2008

 
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BLDGBLOG: The mathematics of preservation and the future of urban ruins

Friday, April 4, 2008

Reading about urban form is more gratifying than driving through it.

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