Rose White is our new monochrom blogger! A warm welcome!
Rose is a sociology PhD student at Graduate
Center-CUNY, in Manhattan, but lives in Brooklyn
because that's where all the action is. Her
doctoral work is on how bright people break rules
(in other words, deviance and
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams at the University of Leicester,
along with their colleagues on the Stratigraphy Commission of the
Geological Society of London, have presented research suggesting that
humans have changed the Earth to such an extent that we have brought
about an end to the
How would you go about learning a language that nobody speaks? It
depends. A well-documented language would have a dictionary, grammar
book, a body of literature (such as folk tales or religious texts),
and, in some cases, videos and recordings that a dedicated student
could learn from...
Die Reduktion des modernen Ichs auf ein mehr oder weniger
'unrettbares' Konstrukt, einen ephemeren Empfindungskomplex
(Ernst Mach) führt zu einem Subjektivitätskonzept, das Einheit
durch Vielheit und Dauer durch Wandel ersetzt: Die Polyphrenie
(Wolfgang Welsch) des modernen und erst recht des
Paul McGuinness said he believed the Silicon Valley culture and its
ecosystem had to undergo a cultural shift, noting the original hippy
values of the west coast technology pioneers in the late 1970s and
their internet equivalents in the late 1990s. Embedded deep down in
the brilliance of
