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Literati roundup: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Education… “49 millions artworks, artifacts, books, videos, and sounds from across Europe…

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Nietzsche Lays Out His Philosophy of Education and a Still-Timely Critique of the Modern University (1872) Open Culture by Josh Jones In a recent entry in the New York Times‘ philosophy blog “The Stone,” Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle locate a “momentous turning point” in the history of philosophy: its institutionalization in the research university in … Read more

Literati roundup: after all Google’s scan of millions of books has been declared legal…”Digital Islamic Humanities Project…

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Google’s audacious project that scanned millions of books has been declared legal The Next Web by Owen Williams Google Books, a project that involved scanning tens of millions of books to make them available online, was met with resistance from authors around the world. A group of authors sued Google in 2008 claiming that the project violated copyright and … Read more

#Ferguson burning after Grand Jury decisions. A roundup…

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It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did FiveThirtyEight – Ben Casselman – Nov 24, 6:30 PM – A St. Louis County grand jury on Monday decided not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police Officer Darren Wilson in the August killing of teenager Michael Brown. The decision wasn’t a surprise — … Read more