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Death of the Humanities? A response to Stanley Fish
a guest post by Daniel H. On January 6th, the prominent theorist, writer and scholar Stanley Fish wrote an intriguing article in the New York Times, called “Will the Humanities Save Us?” In it, he...
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What is the Future of Music?
The music industry, if you haven’t heard, is undergoing some big time transformations. Late last year, Radiohead decided to self-release their new album. Online. For whatever price people wanted to...
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Steve Jobs on Reading
[Taylor, I pinkie-swear I won't write about Apple or Steve Jobs after this post for at least one month.] I won’t go into detail about what happened at Macworld yesterday. I leave that to the multitude...
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Rice Stats: Exploring Information Gluttony and Apathy
As Dan has discussed, we live in an age of information saturation. Every day we hear more and more “figures”: rates, percentages, polls, etc. The 21st century is quickly becoming the “data century.”...
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Real-Time Change
Now this is cool. Worldometers is a site that shows real-time statistics about all sorts of stuff: spending, environment, food consumption, demographics, education, and more. You can click on the...
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More on the Pros and Cons of Social Networking
Dan wrote a while ago about some of the pitfalls of social networking. Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics fame is apparently curious about the debate as well, and polled several researchers in this area...
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Augmented Reality: A Preflection
A Story While I usually take the bus to work in the morning so I can get in some reading, on my way home I usually end up taking the Metro and making the 20-minute hike up Mt. Saint Alban to our...
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New York Times to Steve Jobs: “You Are Wrong”
Timothy Egan of the New York Times tackles the statement Steve Jobs made last month about the decline of reading. I covered Jobs’ quote here, and a lively debate ensued in the comments. It’s been our...
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Whoa whoa whoa…. dunces?
The Argument A week or two ago, author Susan Jacoby wrote an opinion essay in The Washington Post called: “The Dumbing of America.” The tagline for her article: “Call Me a Snob, but Really, We’re a...
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