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Anniversaries, atomic and otherwise
So my memory for myself and history must be sagging because I completely forgot about the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb being …
Aug 6, 2015
2 min read
Musings
JCDL 2015 Conference - Knoxville, TN - Part 1
I’m posting some brief notes on the presentations from JCDL 2015. Here are some thoughts and notes from the first day. Panel on …
Jul 7, 2015
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Events
Education and cognitive domination
A brief excerpt in Today’s Professor newsletter from a book edited by Chad Hanson. In the past 20 years, scholars and …
Jun 12, 2015
3 min read
Juxtapositions
On Hamlet's Blackberry by William Powers
Powers joins the ranks of people who are critical of our ‘always-on’ connected world and calls for more people to take time …
Mar 18, 2015
2 min read
Review
On The Incrementalists by Steven Brust and Skyler White
Brust and White tell the story of a small group of people who have been manipulating human history for millennia by gradually changing …
Jan 22, 2015
1 min read
Review
On Stoner by John Williams
A mid-century classic which is little known. William Stoner grows up a poor farmer’s son, he goes to college to study agriculture …
Jan 22, 2015
1 min read
Review
The Social Sciences and Scale
The following are some preliminary thoughts on scale, epistemology, the social/human sciences, and philosophy spurred by some recent …
Oct 29, 2014
4 min read
Musings
Citizen Science and Open Data
I spoke on a panel last week about citizen science and open data. The panel was one of the events put on by the University of Alberta …
Oct 28, 2014
4 min read
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Musings
On loops, feedback, and other symbology
A recent article at Aeon magazine proposed that one of the master symbols of twentieth century biology, the double-helix structure of …
Sep 26, 2014
5 min read
Musings
Information ecologies in another context
This post is a partial response to a post at the CLIR blog on information ecology and morality by Timothy Norris. In 1999 Bonnie Nardi …
Sep 19, 2014
5 min read
Musings
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