No, not aristocrats... More like the "landed gentry" or the 21st century equivalent those with extensive family backgrounds from financial, social or occasionally, intellectual capital.
M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 11:36 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION'; 'Arthur Cordell' Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to renewal Aristocrats? REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 8:10 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; Arthur Cordell Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to renewal I can appreciate Arthur's intuitive response to the mention of The Economist. Arthur's wariness, like mine, is probably due to the E's silly policy of anonymous writers (at least it was when I last looked). They justify this by saying that this shows that they all speak with one voice! This is as ridiculous as some of the articles they carry sometimes. And this, in turn, is due to their policy of hiring their bright young things straight from (almost exclusively) Oxford and Cambridge. It's a case of intellectual chutzpah. I'll accept that some of their articles are brilliant, but then their are some howlers, too. I've noticed, however, that when The Economist carries a long report (once a quarter or thereabouts), the name of the senior writer is also mentioned -- always someone who has plenty of experience in real life and has earned high laurels elsewere. Keith At 01:52 28/01/2013, you wrote: >No. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael >gurstein >Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 4:59 PM >To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' >Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to >renewal > >The Economist says it is so, thus it is so... no? > >M > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur >Cordell >Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 1:43 PM >To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' >Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to >renewal > >A Muslim scientific awakening is under way. > >Evidence???? > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael >gurstein >Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 3:49 PM >To: Futurework >Subject: Re: [Futurework] [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to >renewal > >Interesting article... > >M > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Dewayne Hendricks >Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:39 PM >To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net >Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Islam and science: The road to renewal > >Islam and science: The road to renewal >After centuries of stagnation science is making a comeback in the >Islamic world Jan 26th 2013 ><http://www.economist.com/news/international/21570677-after-centuries-s >tagna >tion-science-making-comeback-islamic-world-road> > >THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced >more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The >world's >1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel laureates in chemistry >and physics. Both moved to the West: the only living one, the chemist >Ahmed Hassan Zewail, is at the California Institute of Technology. By >contrast Jews, outnumbered 100 to one by Muslims, have won 79. The 57 >countries in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference spend a puny >0.81% of GDP on research and development, about a third of the world >average. America, which has the world's biggest science budget, spends 2.9%; Israel lavishes 4.4%. > >Many blame Islam's supposed innate hostility to science. Some >universities seem keener on prayer than study. Quaid-i-Azam University >in Islamabad, for example, has three mosques on campus, with a fourth >planned, but no bookshop. Rote learning rather than critical thinking >is the hallmark of higher education in many countries. The Saudi >government supports books for Islamic schools such as "The >Unchallengeable Miracles of the Qur'an: The Facts That Can't Be Denied >By Science" suggesting an inherent conflict between belief and reason. > >Many universities are timid about courses that touch even tangentially >on politics or look at religion from a non-devotional standpoint. >Pervez Hoodbhoy, a renowned Pakistani nuclear scientist, introduced a >course on science and world affairs, including Islam's relationship >with science, at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, one of >the country's most progressive universities. Students were keen, but Mr >Hoodbhoy's contract was not renewed when it ran out in December; for no >proper reason, he says. (The university insists that the decision had >nothing to do with the course >content.) > >But look more closely and two things are clear. A Muslim scientific >awakening is under way. And the roots of scientific backwardness lie >not with religious leaders, but with secular rulers, who are as stingy >with cash as they are lavish with controls over independent thought. > >[snip] > > > >Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Futurework mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > >_______________________________________________ >Futurework mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > >_______________________________________________ >Futurework mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > >_______________________________________________ >Futurework mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
