WEB BOHEMIAN
(Wednesday, November 21, 2012)
(1)- WHO IS
FETHULLAH GULEN? -- Controversial Muslim preacher, feared Turkish
intriguer—and “inspirer” of the largest charter school network in America.
Gülen is a powerful business figure in Turkey and controversial.
(2)- BRAIN
WITH A HEART -- He is now probably the most famous, and most beloved, brain
doctor at work today. He does not publish scientific papers, do research, or
advance arguments about theoretical questions.
(3)- HARVARD
GUINEA PIGS -- Skull clamps and scrotum calipers. Harvard scholars poked
and prodded students to learn the secrets of a successful life. What did they
find?
(4)- TOTALITARIANISM
AND FAMINE -- The worst human tragedies of the 20th century were certainly
most deadly when sponsored or unleashed by totalitarian regimes, and food was a
crucial element of their politics.
(5)- IS
THIS A FAD OR SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TO CONSIDER -- Online versions of college
courses attract hundreds of thousands of students, millions of dollars in
funding and accolades from university administrators.
(6)- POLITICS
IN THE AGE OF CAESAR -- Quintus
Cicero suggested was well advised to lie his way into popular favor, or at
least that he should promise more than he could deliver.
(7)- 19th
CENTURY FADS – Men wore the enormous cravats which had been introduced by
George the Third to hide the swelling on his neck; carrots were scarcely used
and the tomato was known as the ‘love apple’ and considered poisonous…
(8)- ALBERT
SPEER -- Every engineer in the course of his career faces moral decisions
that are similar to, if less weighty than, the ones that Albert Speer faced.
How did his character and technical person connect.
(9)- BIOLOGY
AND BUDDHISM -- For Buddhists, as for ecologists, all individual lives are
eventually ‘over’, but their constituent parts continue ‘living’ pretty much
for ever, in a kind of ongoing process of bio-geo-chemical reincarnation.
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