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		<title>Rebecca Goldstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Photograph by Steven Pinker

Recently, I enjoyed reading Rebecca Goldstein&#8217;s  36 Argu­ments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction. It is a novel of ideas which explores the intersec­tion of intel­lec­tual life and spiritual life. The protagonist, Cass Seltzer, is an academic, a psychologist of religion whose sur­prise best-seller, Varieties of Religious Illusion, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science and Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April of 2005, shortly after Larry Summers&#8217; public comments which resulted in his resignation as president of Harvard, there was a debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke, both from the Harvard psychology department, on &#8220;The Science of Gender and Science.&#8221; Streaming video, a transcript, and slides from this debate are available on Edge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Essay on Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alexander Pope
&#8216;Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
Appear in Writing or in Judging ill,
But, of the two, less dang&#8217;rous is th&#8217; Offence,
To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense:
Some few in that, but Numbers err in this,
Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss;
A Fool might once himself alone expose,
Now One in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenebrae</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The world premiere of Nathan&#8217;s Tenebrae, for harp and string quartet, will be March 31, 2011, at Lincoln Center. It is sponsored by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and will be performed by Bridget Kibby and the Jupiter String Quartet. Tickets go on sale August 2 here.
&#8211;Paul
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		<title>Philip L. Barlow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about a remarkable man who I have been fortunate to have as my friend. Philip Barlow is a Mormon and a scholar of American religion; he earned his B.A. in History from Weber State College in 1975, his M.T.S. from Harvard in 1980, and his Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School in 1988. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs on Flash</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=9175</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In commemoration of Apple surpassing Microsoft in market capitalization last week, here is Steve Jobs on Apple&#8217;s choice not to support Flash on the IPad:



&#8211;Paul
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		<title>Aleksandr Hrustevich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 02:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With summer coming on, this seems appropriate:

From Vivaldi&#8217;s Four Seasons, played by the young Ukrainian accordionist Aleksandr Hrustevich. (via Alex Ross)
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		<title>Thucydides and Plato</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 14:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a recurrent trope in writing about Thucydides to place him in opposition to Plato. I would like to consider some of the ramifications that this opposition may have for our understanding of Thucydides, and to evaluate its limitations. But first we must try to disentangle the various guises that it assumes.
At the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euler&#8217;s Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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From xkcd.
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		<title>Logical Positivism</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=8254</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The name &#8220;positivism&#8221; comes from the writing of Auguste Comte, the 19th century philosopher of science and founder of sociology.  In his Course of Positive Philosophy, published from 1830 through 1842, Comte described human history as progressing through three distinct stages, which he called the theological, metaphysical, and positive &#8211; the final stage corresponding to the ordering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Peirce</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Peirce, the father of Charles Sanders Peirce, taught mathematics and astronomy at Harvard from 1831 until his death in 1880. and was probably the leading American mathe­matician of his time. He is best known, in the history of mathematics, for his Linear Asso­ci­ative Algebra of 1870, and for his proof, as a young man, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawrence Lessig</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=8677</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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Lawrence Lessig earned an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a law degree from Yale. He is a founder of Creative Commons. Formerly a professor of law at Stanford, he is currently the director of the Safra Foun&#173;dation Center for Ethics at Harvard.

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		<title>His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

Here is the Wikipedia entry on Alec Derwent Hope.
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		<title>Dalrymple on Galbraith</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=8056</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=8056#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Theodore Dalrymple&#8217; is the pen-name of Dr. Anthony Daniels, retired British doctor, contributing editor for the City Journal, author, and eloquent conservative obser­ver of contem­po­rary culture. Recently, Daniels was invited to give the annual John Kenneth Galbraith Lecture at Memorial University in Newfoundland. The Galbraith Revival is a reflection on that experience.
Other articles to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actus Tragicus</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7944</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7944#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Johann Sebastian Bach
The Cantata &#8220;Actus Tragicus&#8221;, BWV 106, is one of Bach&#8217;s greatest cantatas. Here is Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Part II), from a wonderful performance on period instruments by Joshua Rifkin and The Bach Ensemble.
actus.mp3

Recorded in 1985, Joshua Rifkin and The Bach Ensemble, with Ann Monoyios, Steven Rickards, Edmund Brownless, Jan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherry Turkle</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7652</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7652#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, and is the director of the MIT Initiative on Tech­nology and Self. She earned her doctorate in sociology and per­son­ality psychology from Harvard University, and is a licensed clinical psycho­logist. She writes about the &#8220;subjective side&#8221; of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Count Basie Remembers The Blues</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7638</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7638#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

(via Instapundit)
&#8211;Paul
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		<title>Eros and Death in Verdi&#8217;s Otello</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7505</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7505#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Verdi&#8217;s Otello is a work very much of its time, and this is true nowhere more than in its treatment of love and the erotic.  The simplest illustration of this may be found in the stark contrasts between the opera and its source.
Shakespeare&#8217;s Othello, more than any other play, is haunted by the theme of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Toulmin 1922-2009</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7434</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7434#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Toulmin died last month. He studied with Wittgenstein and was a reader, with Kolakowski, of Phil&#8217;s dissertation. Toulmin was probably best known for his 1958 book, The Uses of Argument, and for his seminal work on the philosophy of science. In a long and distinguished career, he taught at Oxford, Melbourne, Leeds, Brandeis, Columbia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thorium Reactors</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7326</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7326#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an article for Wired, Uranium is So Last Century, Richard Martin touts the promise of thorium fueled nuclear fission. Unlike uranium, thorium is plentiful in nature and produces a &#8220;miniscule&#8221; amount of radioactive waste. It is also an effective breeder and lacks the weaponization potential of uranium. The tech­nology is called LFTR &#8212; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intimations of Immortality</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7253</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7253#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by William Wordsworth (1807)
Ode
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe&#8217;er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve McIntyre</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7218</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7218#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[climate science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A profile, Centre of the Storm, from Macleans.ca.

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		<title>From The Book of Time</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7211</link>
		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7211#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Oliver
1.
I rose this morning early as usual, and went to my desk
But it&#8217;s spring,
and the thrush is in the woods,
somewhere in the twirled branches, and he is singing.
And so, now, I am standing by the open door.
And now I am stepping down onto the grass.
I am touching a few leaves.
I am noticing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alkan/Beethoven</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=7099</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) was a composer and virtuoso pianist who lived in Paris and knew both Chopin and Lizst. He was an orthodox Jew, and the legend is that he died when one of his bookcases fell on him (also a hazard in academic life).
This is Alkan&#8217;s transcription of the first movement of Beethoven&#8217;s Piano [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Integrity</title>
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		<comments>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=6535#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week an unknown hacker &#8212; or inside whistleblower &#8212; distributed on the internet emails and documents apparently taken from the computers of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England. The CRU and its director, Phil Jones, were central players in establishing the theory of anthropocentric global warming that is endorsed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golf Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Golf Dreams is John Updike&#8217;s brilliant collection of stories and essays about the game of golf. In the title story, Updike describes a golf dream &#8212; a dream in which targets mysteriously recede, hazards materialize out of thin air, balls change into cylinders, and clubs develop an odd flabby appen­dage which prevents them from contacting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by W. B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haochen Zhang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[During May and June I listened to the live webcasts of most of the Van Cliburn Piano Competition. I am not sure what to think about competitions in general &#8212; perhaps they are a necessary evil &#8212; but it was a good opportunity to hear wonderful young musicians and some remarkable performances. Early on, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respecting Childhood</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=5992</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ludwig Wittgenstein once asked rhetorically, Do we bring up our children because we have found it pays? [1] This sounds absurd, yet in many ways our expressed thinking about children is utilitarian and fails to take them seriously as ends in themselves. Perhaps we are no longer driven to produce family heirs, but when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where My Books go</title>
		<link>http://www.arisbe.com/detached/?p=5961</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by W. B. Yeats
ALL the words that I utter,
And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm-darken&#8217;d or starry bright.
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