My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Category Archives: The Human Condition
Not since the Greeks...
We are in the middle of a literacy revolution, the like of which has not been since since the Greeks invented writing in the first place, says Standford writing and rhetoric professor Andrea Lunsford.
Also posted in New Media, Social Networking Tagged Andrea Lunsford, Clive Thompson, composition, education, New Media, Social Networking, wired, writing Comments closed
“Fail” gets the NYT treatment
The New York Times’ “On Language” blog has a post about the word “fail” and how it has transformed from common verb to Internet exclamation to noun — and even adjective in some cases. Ben Huh, CEO of Pet Holdings, the company that owns Fail Blog, told the Times that “fail” really took off because of [...]
Also posted in New Media Tagged Anil Dash, Ben Zimmer, fail, language, New Media, New York Times Comments closed
Atheism in America, a view from 2001
I’ve been reading Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, and in that book, he mentions an article by Natalie Angier, published in the New York Times in 2001. I’m not really going to comment on it much, but I do think it’s a valuable read. I’ll post a few choice quotes here.
Posted in The Human Condition Tagged atheism, Natalie Angiers, religion, Richard Dawkins Comments closed
Facebook will melt your brain
A British neuroscientist, whose work I’ve written about before, was the subject of an article in the Guardian yesterday. In it, Lady Susan Greenfield, a professor of synaptic pharmacology a Lincoln college, Oxford, tells us that the fast-paced, instant gratification world of social networking is probably changing the way a generation of networked children’s minds work. [...]
Also posted in Social Networking Tagged brain, empathy, Facebook, Guardian, Social Networking, Susan Greenfield Comments closed
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