October 23, 2010
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I think we get a bit of insight into Rupert Murdoch’s mindset when we read things like this: Nicknamed after Julius Caesar’s victorious siege of Gallic forces in 52 B.C., Rupert Murdoch’s “Project Alesia” was supposed to be his attack against Google News, which he’s always seen as a content-thieving enterprise. [more] via Rupert Murdoch…
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This sounds like it would have been very interesting to attend: These days, when an event is billed as vampire related, one might expect the target audience to be mostly made up of adolescent girls. Not so for the considerable crowd that turned out to the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Rainey Auditorium on…
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The Wall Street Journal had an item of interest … an article comparing US and Italian education systems penned by an ‘urban professional’ from the US working in Rome. Here’s the excerpt that caught my eye: The pedagogy is old-fashioned, with lots of memorization: the despised “rote learning” that American educators have been warning against…
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Mentioned this on facebook last week … forgot to post it here. Here’s the incipit: Even though Homer’s Iliad was written approximately three thousand years ago, the character of Achilles is still alive and well. He is forty one years old, lives in Mississippi, and spends his autumns and winters in Minnesota. Minnesota Vikings quarterback…
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Aesop seems to be a theme today for some reason … here’s the end of an item from the Huffington Post commenting on the Florida senate elections debates: Thankfully, a commercial break intervened, but immediately afterwards, moderator Antonio Mora, news anchor for host station WFOR-TV, returned to the theme. That’s when Aesop made his cameo…
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