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February 10, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Before reading the ideas in this blog, I invite you to view a piece by artist M.C. Escher and listen to the “Endlessly Rising Canon” by Bach. In his book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter paraphrases Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness …
December 18, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. During this pandemicky year, a friend of mine has taken to writing me a letter every day. She usually includes details about the workday, family responsibilities, emotions of being at home, etc. A few times, she has included an old postcard, written more …
September 11, 2020 Thanks to Dean Coslovi, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. “Among my writings my Zarathustra stands by itself. With this book I have given mankind the greatest gift it has ever been given.” – Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche has his enlightened character, Zarathustra, proclaim …
Thanks to Dylan O’Hara, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. May 22, 2020 Some of the research that has inspired me the most over the last two years or so has been Urban History. The academic crossover between History, Anthropology, Political Science, Cartography, Geography, and Environmental Studies suddenly opened up a whole …
April 10, 2020 Thanks to Minette Bryant, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. To say the least, these are unprecedented times. Certainly for the current generations—all of them!—there has not been another scenario like the one we are living out. We are making it up as we go. As a mother and …
October 25, 2019 Thanks to Ned Boulberhane, a 2019 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. China: The far lands of the Orient, and perhaps the world’s oldest living civilization. However, the days of Huang He River Valley have evolved into something quite different than the previous centuries. 1949 saw the rise of …
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August 16, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. -ess (or -esse): from ME -esse < OF < LL -issa < Greek -Merriam-Webster Online English borrows words from many languages. One way to identify the origin of a word is to look at the word parts. Today’s blog will outline some details …
January 18, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Every Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I enjoy rereading some of Dr. King’s remarkable works. As a culture, we are still coming to terms with his life, his death, and his very beautiful words. Personally, his words resonate with me in any number …
January 4, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Some members in my family celebrate New Year’s Eve with lutefisk or sauerkraut. Some people celebrate with both. I, however, draw the line at lutefisk. I just cannot stomach it. What seems to me to be a petty difference of taste really bothers …
July 13, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I am interested in the way(s) in which literary language intersects with language itself. By literary language, I mean language that most often occurs in writing, but not necessarily in everyday speech. A marked difference between the spoken and written word of a …
