December 2010
36 posts
“After acquiring a Masters Degree that will not increase their salary or hiring...”
– #81 Graduate School « Stuff White People Like
“But of more immediate concern, especially for those in arts departments, is the...”
– UK crisis sounds a warning to sector | The Australian
“Philosophy does not contribute to our knowledge of the world we live in after...”
– Peter Hacker
“Joan Acocella on the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov: “If there is a point in...”
– Helen Garner in The Monthly
“It is our remoteness that pains us. We are so far, far off. Our veins run warm...”
– Sydney poet and writer Louise Mack, An Australian Girl in London, 1902. (via The Literary Piano)
“For if art is just its own pleasing, weightless thing; if it comes into being by...”
– Nicholas Rothwell
“The work ethic has become obsolete. It is no longer true that producing more...”
– Andre Gorz
“I can identify just three credible ideas that have been advanced for the renewal...”
– Mark Latham in The Monthly
The QI Movement →
QI has climbed to the peak of television schedules and established Stephen Fry’s status as national treasure and brainiest Briton. But peel away the cordial humour and silly sound effects of this chummy quiz show and you reveal what its creator believes could be a catalyst for social change.
“Culture is not an assortment of aesthetic sugar-plums for fastidious palates,...”
– R. H. Tawney
“It is not necessary, in attacking the ethics of Assange’s actions, and...”
– Gillard’s WikiLeaks double-speak | Rob Burgess | Commentary | Business Spectator
“Had I never lived, someone else would probably have formulated the principle of...”
– Werner Heisenberg, discoverer of the uncertainty principle in physics (via libraryland)
“Has Earth become a sort of amplified Facebook, where an in-crowd of Heathers,...”
– The Blueprint | the human network
“Newspapers and magazines have been doing it for centuries—but if book...”
– On Books That Try Too Hard | The Atlantic Wire
