And now, for something completely different: GEB virtual course

I’ve been thinking of finding some folks to “take” one of MIT’s OpenCourseware classes together. After thinking through various possibilities (face-to-face bookclub, social networks, listserv, etc), here’s my proposal: Use my blog as the meeting place and record of conversation for the MIT course: SP.258 / ESG.SP258 Gödel, Escher, Bach The Penrose triangle, also known [...]

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This post was written by Karyn on August 22, 2009 Comments (17)

Have a sticky beak at these gucci videos

It’s obvious from the total views listed for these videos that not enough people have followed the links on Ros’ blog to see what Michael Bird is really like. Considering I just spent intolerable amounts of time traveling back from vacation in a car, I might attribute some of his insanity to travel toxicity (most [...]

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This post was written by Karyn on August 10, 2009 Comments (1)