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Used to ride the highway, I used to know where I was going.  Now this shady dirt road is feeling cool beneath my feet.  Used to ride on to get to where I was going in a daze, but now I stop and go, and stop and go along the way. - Widespread Panic (Space Wrangler, Stop-Go)

I made [...]

A BBC news correspondent writes (link via Blogdex):
Doctors and experts are baffled by an Indian hermit who claims not to have eaten or drunk anything for several decades - but is still in perfect health.  

I am happy that Western medicine is starting to take notice of the power of prana, ki, chi, or lifeforce.  Our digestive [...]

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Will Richardson, a pioneer in using weblogs in educational settings, writes:
To me, the process of blogging is, most of the time, an ongoing series of steps: 1. Find and read material that is relevant to your life. 2. Capture the essence of this relevant reading, give credit to its source, and synthesize those ideas into [...]

I recently came across a March 2001 Salon interview with Camille Paglia:
The entire American school system needs to be stringently reexamined from primary grades through college. If high school has turned into a seething arena of boredom and competitive tension erupting in mayhem, it’s partly (as I told Interview magazine after the Columbine massacre two years [...]

I would like to propose that there is a growing need to study and finally support human learning as it takes place outside institutionalized and formal contexts, or as it transcends these contexts in our individual and collective lives. In addition we should also try to find ways how we can support the transition from [...]

My daughter Aili, who turned 9 months this week, does her best to play music.  So far, we’ve managed to collect five instruments for her: a bamboo flute, a drum, some windchimes, a pair of moraccos, and a glockenspiel.  Her favorite instrument so far is the bamboo flute.  When I play it, she sings along with [...]

 
The Japanese version of the www.eastasiacenter.net is coming soon.  Barbara, Steve, and I will be creating a similar such space for intercultural communications majors from Ryukoku University who study abroad and wish to keep in touch with their classmates and teachers.  It should be interesting to see how Japanese students take to the medium and use it to [...]

If anyone is interested in reading the report I wrote on our blogging experiment last spring, here it is: 
The Experience of Computer Supported Cooperative Learning Using Weblogs in the University Classroom: a phenomenological case study
Thanks again to those of you who took part in the course and allowed me to research your activities and make [...]

On the topic of Enneagram and other such personality tests, Jaymie states that “you pretty much choose your own Enneagram type by what mood you are in when you take the test.”  In spite of the wisdom of those words, is this what the designers of the test had in mind?  What validity could a [...]

The field of meanings that constitutes the artificial body has lasting ramifications. As the female organic body is replaced with the artificial body of the woman, the host of symbols and meanings contained therein are taken as real, and as natural. The result is that the artificial body is normative. In the heavily sexualized artificial [...]