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Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
Un'enciclopedia della saggezza per età
Dovevo chiedere alle persone di sintetizzare a parole le tre cose che avevano imparato dalla vita. Più vecchio era l’intervistato, meglio era. Provai a ottenere risposte in vari modi. Cominciai con il porta a porta, ma la maggior parte delle volte mi cacciavano scambiandomi per…
Prof.dr. B. Mons
Knowledge discovery in escience
Each Knowlet has an ‘attraction’ to each other Knowlet with similar concepts in its ‘Object Cloud’, while some knowlets have very little to do with each other and may even repulse each other, some others may move closer and close in the Concept Web, pushed and pulled by many…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
A beauty that sours without goodness
It was impossible for me to tell her age or her nationality. She might’ve been Spanish. She might’ve been Russian. She might’ve been Indian, in part, or Chinese, or even Greek. And Karla was right—she had been beautiful once. It was the kind of beauty that grows from the sum of…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
The Saturn Return
FOR ASTROLOGY THERE ARE two particularly critical junctures in the life of any individual, the first at the end of their twenties, and the second at the end of their fifties. Called the Saturn Return, these are the two occasions the planet Saturn completes its orbit around the…
The Daily Portal – Jon Mitchell, Cosmos Journalist
Ripples of meaning around us
Even though it seemed a little New Age-y for the Silicon Valley set (yeah, right), I started wearing an interesting blue medallion around that I found because it reminded me of the portal. It's a series of nested squares arranged concentrically around a little square portal in…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Middle-aged women disappear
A second, related way in which the social self matters is that if people are treated very differently depending on how they appear, that can change how they perceive themselves. ‘I’ve been finding that recently I’ve been learning to be unconfident,’ Jñanamitra told me. ‘I’m now…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Same stages, different ages
Piaget believed that children all pass through the same stages when developing their thinking skills. The age at which children accomplish these stages of development can vary. Because of this variation, charts outlining Piaget’s stages may also differ slightly.