Ancient southwesterners gave turquoise, the greatest wealth, as offerings to water, the desert’s greatest gift. They left tokens of turquoise at canyon seeps and springs amid emerald mosses, maidenhair ferns, creamy blooms of columbine, crimson monkey flowers, dragonflies the color…
Because it can be unbearably vulnerable-making to admit our own tender need for assurance, because pride is the antipode of vulnerability and therefore the great enemy of meaningful connection, we often find ourselves too proud to ask for what we…
An outage on the Apple Card was resolved Wednesday afternoon, according to Apple’s system status dashboard. The trouble started around 6:17 a.m. PT, according to the dashboard, and users may not have been able to manage their card, make payments or see recent…
(via Tad Schmaltz) Bergmann spent most of his career at the University of Michigan, but previously had taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1959. Professor…
Robert R. Ammerman, Ph.D. joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in 1957. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927, and moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1937. In 1945, he enlisted in the U.S.…
The optimal scenario with any credit card is that you’re paying off the balance each month. But if you need a longer timeline to pay off your debt, that 0% introductory interest period can offer a valuable reprieve. And unless…
A new digital humanities initiative at the Institute Vienna Circle (IVC) at the University of Vienna provides an open-source archive of digitized materials from and on the history of logical empiricism. The Vienna Archive of Logical Empiricism, or VALEP, contains…
Results: As already noted, there were problems with the implementation of this survey. In particular, by tying participation to an active membership we effectively imposed a ‘paywall’—to quote a word used by a graduate student who could not easily get…
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With his poetic ear pressed to the pulses of compression and rarefaction unspooled by the tuning-fork as it pinches matter into waveform, Johnson writes: These alternate equidistant forces travel at the rate of 1,180 feet per second through the elasticity…
