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I rode into Minneapolis today on Metro Transit to attend the first day of a conference entitled “Rethinking the University: …
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Here are some of the things I’m currently thinking about: Framing and communication. I got sucked into the most recent dustup …
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Three years ago I wrote the following about my experience at Socrate’s Cafe here in Minnesota. I stopped attending for three …
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The blog has languished for many months but this will hopefully be the beginning of a new wave of publishing around here at EcEc. To …
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As a random exercise in memory I offer the following none too certain linkage between the former core curriculum of the MSI program at …
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Happy Pi day + 1 everyone. I’ve been personally buried in an avalanche of reading, writing, processing, thinking, sensemaking, …
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Two weeks ago I wrote about a presentation by Scott Page on diversity and the wisdom of crowds. One of the examples he used was the …
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I can feel myself being pulled to the dark side of philosophy through this semester’s classes and readings. I’m starting to …
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A class assignment in 503 asked for the top favorite books and movies. So it here it is for another audience. I notice that the movie …
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Scott Page, an economics, political science, and complex systems professor at Michigan spoke to the ICOS seminar today about his new …
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