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An Appetite For Wonder By Richard Dawkins – Review (richard Fortey)
Is science the poetry of reality?
Dawkins is on less secure ground when he claims that "science is the poetry of reality". Poets would no doubt claim that poetry is also a portrait – sometimes of a scientific sort – of reality, since it seeks to express in precise words emotions that otherwise defy…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Ethic is not unegoistic
Ethic as Man's Self-Analysis.—A good author, whose heart is really in his work, wishes that someone would arise and wholly refute him if only thereby his subject be wholly clarified and made plain. The maid in love wishes that she could attest the fidelity of her own passion…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Dh sites need a strong computational infrastructure
A decade later, the term is morphing again as some scholars advocate a turn from a primary focus on text encoding, analysis, and searching to multimedia practices that explore the fusion of text-based humanities with film, sound, animation, graphics, and other multimodal…
Universal Grammar
Universal grammar's implicational rules
Universal Grammar is made up of a set of rules that apply to most or all natural human languages. Most of these rules come in the form of "if a language has a feature X, it will also have the feature Y." Rules that are widely considered as part of UG include: If a language is…