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[Aug. 5th, 2005|12:30 pm] |
autumn's first geese
crapping on people
fly on
hatsu kari ga hito ni hako shite tôri keri
Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue |
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[Aug. 5th, 2005|02:27 pm] |
Contributions to US colleges and universities rose $800m last year, to $24.4bn, led by Harvard and Stanford with more than $500m each, the New York-based Council for Aid to Education reported yesterday.
The donations amounted to an increase of 3.4 % for all colleges and universities for the year that ended June 30 2004. After adjusting for inflation, the increase amounted to only 0.7%.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,1429545,00.html
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"Fewer and fewer students are pursuing science and engineering. While immigrants are taking up the slack in many areas, defense laboratories and industries generally require American citizenship or permanent residency. So a crisis is looming, unless careers in science and engineering suddenly become hugely popular, said Robert J. Barker, an Air Force program manager who approved the grant. And what better way to get a lot of young people interested in science than by producing movies and television shows that depict scientists in flattering ways?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/movies/04flyb.html?ex=1280808000&en=b35c2085878bcf51&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |
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[Aug. 5th, 2005|03:08 pm] |
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1175/is_n4_v29/ai_18440951/print
Robert Epstein
Capturing creativity - includes information on exercises and games that promote creative ability
Over the years, my students, colleagues, and I became increasingly adept at providing certain minimal training that would inexorably lead to the generation of a specific, complex, new performance--one that could be called "creative." What we ultimately concluded was that previously established behavior manifests itself in new situations in new yet orderly ways. Novel behavior is truly new, but the particular novel behavior that emerges in a new situation depends on the particular behaviors that were established previously--that is, on prior knowledge. Creativity, in short, is not something mystical; it's an extension of what you already know. To be more specific, new behaviors (or "ideas") emerge as old behaviors interact, and the process by which behaviors interact is orderly. |
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[Aug. 5th, 2005|10:58 pm] |
And the Lord appeared to him by the terbinth of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; and he raised his eyes and looked, and , lo, three men stood by him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the ground, and said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant; let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree; and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort your hearts; after that you shall pass on: seeing that you are come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
..And he took butter , and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they ate. And they said to him, Where is Sara thy wife? and he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return to thee at this season; and, lo, Sara thy wife shall have a son. And Sara heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
another communication experiment. first the angel, now the three men. |
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[Aug. 5th, 2005|11:38 pm] |
tying her
to my memory -
moonlit rain
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