It’s spring, and an old man’s fancy turns to thoughts of golf. My thoughts concentrate on three conditions that no longer seem to exist, neither in golf nor in the society. Golf, as the game was designed and expected to be played, is out of sync, out of joint, with the society determined to paralyze the game.
Continue reading → Dr. Howard Stein on Golf and the Principle of Consideration
Over 50 years ago, C.P. Snow set the educational and cultural and political worlds afire as he argued in his ovaric book — “The Two Cultures” — that there was a growing divide between the Arts/Humanities and Science in explaining how the world worked and he warned us against the perils of getting caught in the crossfire of that ashen division.
Continue reading → Intent on the Internet: The Intellectual Divide Between Knowledge and Information
What is your favorite search engine and why?
If you think you know something — is that enough — or do you feel a responsibility to back up your knowledge with outside facts?
Continue reading → Divination, Knowing and Proprietary Learning
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