Director of Training & Knowledge Management + Educational Researcher + Professor + Poet + Wikipedian = Liminality + Actor-Network Theory + Open Education
The newest Faculty-Productivity Index in the November 16 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education ranks the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research #9. This is a major leap forward, especially for a Continental program with a focus on the European tradition of social research. Congratulations!
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. . . the popularization of a trend in using locally grown ingredients, taking advantage of seasonally available foodstuffs that can be bought and prepared without the need for extra preservatives . . . The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation. “Locavore” was coined two years ago by a group of four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius.
Great idea, though difficult to do in the middle of Manhattan. Any locavores out there?
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twice last night, and can’t get this hypnotic tune out of my head:
Ding-dong the witch is dead Which old witch? The wicked witch Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead Wake up you sleepyhead Rub your eyes, get out of bed Wake up the wicked witch is dead She’s gone where the goblins go Below – below – below Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low Let them know the Wicked Witch is dead
Not sure why I like this tune so much. The rhymes? Cleverness? Passion? Humanity? Triumphant? Reminiscent? Triumph over evil? Jubilation of justice? Whatever the case, I hum this tune frequently. I wonder if she was green, too?
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The New York Times had an interesting article in their Sunday Magazine about Hugo Chavez and how he is using profits from oil to support his vision of a socialistic Venezuela. While the Western concept of oil as belonging to whomever controls the land on which the equipment to get it out of the ground operates, one of the learnings I took from this article looks at it from another perspective. Can any person or company own these ancient reserves, or does it belong to the society itself under whose land the oil is drilled? Does Big Oil control oil since it could afford to lobby or bribe politicians to allow it to drill within state-controlled preserves or wildlife lands? Does oil belong to governments, to use as any other source of revenue? Does the oil belong to the people (in Venezuela, the slogan states: El Petroleo es Nuestro!, loosely translated as The Oil Is Ours!), and thus nationalizing the oil reserves is a form of patriotism and duty of the govenerment to care for its citizens? Perhaps oil is more like a drug, where anybody who controls it and the potential wealth it brings wants to decide it is whatever is convenient, insofar as it maintains and supports the status quo for those in power? Perhaps oil is itself a necessary evil?
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