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Posted on May 17, 2018May 14, 2018

Why hasn’t an earthquake toppled the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

I’m sure you’ve asked yourself the same question… well, here is the answer…. Basically, it’s all down to the soil: After studying available seismological, geotechnical and structural information, the research…

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Posted on May 16, 2018May 13, 2018

“The Best Lack All Conviction, while the Worst / Are Full Of Passionate Intensity”

According to this article from August 2016, lines from Yeats’ The Second Coming were quoted more often in the first seven months of 2016 than in any of the prior…

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Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018

The Immanent Self: Epigenetics, Modern Liberalism and Spinoza

Originally posted on The Nexus of Epigenetics:
by Shea Robison (@EpigeneticsGuy) (The following is a summary of a talk presented at the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy on January 11, 2016.…

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Posted on May 5, 2018May 4, 2018

Adam DeVille on Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia”

From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog:   In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…

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Posted on April 29, 2018May 4, 2018

What Does it Take? – from “Dispatches from the Undergrowth” blog, on saving a species

Originally posted on dispatches from the undergrowth:
 Conservationists constantly worry about how to ‘keep things going’ – be it a bird, butterfly, or some other organism teetering on the brink.…

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Posted on April 29, 2018

“The secret mimeticism beneath the surface of the assertion of autonomy”

From “God’s Gamble: The Gravitational Power of Crucified Love” by Gil Bailie, here is a passage on “the cul-de-sac of autonomous individualism.” I have been reading a lot of and…

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Posted on April 9, 2018

The amnesia of our age: the lonely passion of Brian Moore

When I became aware of “serious” literature in the late 80s/early 90s, Brian Moore was quite a substantial figure – repeatedly nominated for the Booker Prize, his books made into…

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Posted on April 7, 2018April 7, 2018

The past and future of handwriting- David Rundle in the TLS

In the current TLS there is an excellent review by David Rundle of two recent books on handwriting. Anyone who knows me, or more specifically had had to read my…

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