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We live in an endless scroll world of relational voids. The ways we consume content has now surpassed even the worst fears of media theory greats like Marshall MacLuhan and Neil Postman. Amusing ourselves to death is no longer a fear but a practical reality. So we spot auto playing clips divorced from context of […]
Techne and episteme are foundational concepts in Greek philosophy. Practical knowledge and theoretical understanding are interwoven for humans. Aristotle distinguished between five virtues of thought: technê, epistêmê, phronêsis, sophia, and nous, with techne translating as “craft” or “art” and episteme as “knowledge” Via Wikipedia As I enjoyed a brief trip to the academy last week I am myself considering how much meaning I derive […]
On April 16 Spain hit its first weekday of 100% renewable power on the national grid. Spain’s grid operator Red Eléctrica was celebrated for this milestone. Today Spain and Portugal went dark as the grid collapsed after a massive dip in demand. “We have never had a complete collapse of the system,” Sánchez said, before […]
I spent my day at a conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Bensen Center for the Study of Western Civilization. It’s my hometown university and while I never studied there I was greatly enriched by its traditions of public and community programming. The land grant universities educated Americans like me even if we […]
Being back in America after any amount of time in Europe is always a weird transition for me. I am in Colorado for an academic conference so I’m staying in a chain hotel. Being accustomed to European systems that simply don’t work beyond a set range I turn the air conditioning on maximum before bed […]
I’m surprised that the bad manners and poor social graces perpetuated by pandemic isolation continue to plague all forms of public transit. I am flying from Europe to America today for a conference appearance in Boulder Colorado. This has involved a few smaller regional hops where an hour or so of flight time is spent […]
I am excited to be a panelist at an academic conference at my hometown’s university later this week. While I didn’t attend the University of Colorado at Boulder myself, as a townie kid it holds a special place as educational institution in my life. Their libraries lent me books, I attended events like their famed […]
I feel the change all around me. I feel the change inside me. On Easter one feels the miraculous in big and small ways. Having traveled a not insignificant portion of the Silk Road from Adriatic to Ionia to the Bosporus this week I feel the changing flows of commerce, empire and faith rather viscerally. […]
I spent the night in a port city in Greece as I am making my way back to Western Europe. I’ll be crossing by airplane via polar routes on my way to Colorado next week for an academic conference at my home town university. I feel like I’ve made it when I am invited to […]
I love bathing cultures of all kinds. It’s the beauty girl in me. I’ve been lucky to have worked in a number of wellness and fitness settings professionally and it’s privileged me to experiences that make one feel deeply human. The modern Korean spas are dazzling and as enjoyable to me as natural Rocky Mountain […]