January 2009
27 posts
Give your cows a name... →
Learning is cyclical
londondonlon:
Today there was a presentation involving the “Memory Palace” method that we used in a lesson for our Rhetoric class (that one is filed under “which I find really interesting and useful but everyone else seemed to hate”).
i hear everyone is foreclosing on thier memory palaces. times are tough.
i missed you when you were home! next time.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama lifts ban on abortion... →
Thank you, Mr. President
i’m still writing 2010 on all my checks
“…I think there are reasons in nature, why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear. It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions.”
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
A Tenth Century Chinese Classification of The Animal World
(1) Those Belonging to the Emperor; (2) Embalmed; (3) Tame; (4) Suckling Pigs; (5) Sirens; (6) Fabulous; (7) Stray Dogs; (8) Included in the Present Classification; (9) Frenzied; (10) Innumerable; (11) Drawn with a Very Fine Camelhair Brush; (12) Et Cetra; (13) Having Just Broken the Water Pitcher; and (14) That From a Long Way Off Look...
Further, owing to thier being asleep, fish may be captured by torchlight.
Aristotle Historia Animalium, c. 344 BC
