Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one.

By Maria Konnikova | August 10, 2012

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/08/10/humanities-arent-a-science-stop-treating-them-like-one/

wonderful article

Well I see by the clock on the wall, that it’s time to wish you one and all… goodbye, so long…?
... farewell, adieu…

Be good (Stay Well) Bye Bye (Keep Warm) Relax (At Ease) Take Care (Stay Loose)
Adieu mon vieux. A la prochaine. Goodbye ‘til when we meet again!

lyrics from:

http://blogs.pinkelephant.com/index.php?/itilv3/comments/there_is_no_itil_v4_coming_your_way/

There are many people I would love to send this to!!!


To remove the “Sent from my iPhone” text:

1. On the iPhone Home screen, tap Settings.
2. Tap the Mail button.
3. Tap the Signature.
4. To remove the “Sent from my iPhone” string, remove the signature to blank. Alternatively, just change the signature to whatever text user prefers

from 

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-and-remove-sent-from-my-iphone-signature-on-email-messages/

From a review of The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, by Roger Kimball (St. Augustine’s Press, 360 pp., $35) at http://www.city-journal.org/2012/bc0803bt.html#cform

"John Buchan, the now-forgotten inventor of the spy novel." I find this a funny comment, as while he may be  forgotten , but his best know work may sound very familiar, The Thirty-Nine Steps, best know for being  filmed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Funny editing/translating mistake in Rabbi Lau's book

"…it is hard to find anyone today who doesn’t see Warhol as a major genius, and the artists of the 1980s and ’90s whom Hughes especially hated are now starting to feel as safe and substantial as Monet."

This depressing quote says it all about the American “arts” scene. Even if Warhol was, “a major genius,” that everyone who is “anyone” agrees to something like that is disturbing.  Call it what you will. Groupthink, walking in step, clones. What is also disturbing is this obsession with the present. That an artist from the eighties and nineties  is “kosher” today, does not make them like Monet.
This writers’ biography is very impressive. But who needs a doctorate from Oxford to say what is safe and popular?

From THE SOURCE OF FAITH IS FAITH ITSELF by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein

At one point, during my late teens, I was troubled by certain ethical questions concerning [the destruction of] Amalek etc. I then recalled having recently read that Rabbi Chaim Brisker would awaken nightly to see if someone hadn't place a foundling at his doorstep. I knew that I slept quite soundly, and I concluded that if such a paragon of kindness coped with these laws, evidently the source of my anxiety did not lie in my greater sensitivity but in my weaker faith. And I set myself to enhancing it.

http://www.heritage.org.il/innernet/archives/faith.htm

From 

The Emperor Who Ate the Bible: And More Strange Facts and Useless Information by Scott Morris

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/07/locked-in-syndrome-richard-marsh News World news United States Locked-in syndrome: rare survivor Richard Marsh recounts his ordeal When Richard Marsh had a stroke doctors wanted to switch off his life-support – but he could hear every word but could not tell them he was alive. Now 95% recovered, he recounts his story Share 804 Email Amelia Hill guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 August 2012 06.45 EDT

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/tip-sheet/article/53409-the-top-10-most-difficult-books.html The Top 10 Most Difficult Books By Emily Colette Wilkinson & Garth Risk Hallberg They obviously never heard of Ulysses... UPDATE: From the comments below.. “If you think To the Lighthouse is hard to read, you shouldn't be writing for Publishers Weekly..”

Washington Diarist: A Saint in the City Leon Wieseltier August 1, 2012 | 6:00 pm http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/politics/105712/washington-diarist-saint-in-the-city-springsteen great article!

Hunt Tomato sauce on great sale at Bravo!

The Tory Anarchist George Orwell deserves better than Jeffrey Meyers. Aug 13, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 44 • By JOHN P. ROSSI http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/tory-anarchist_649290.html?nopager=1