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Apr. 22nd, 2007 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meoraeThere are a number of things I want to write about, just not right now... Instead, I'm emptying my folder of interesting things I've come across online.
There's the cute story of a cat who rides the bus to a fish and chips store and back.
Then the response of a high school student to an over-the-top letter from MIT.
An article on plagiarism that says everything I tried to say in my research paper ten times better.
A website with an overview of history from prehistoric times until today, which I've vaguely been interested in finding in order to fill in the huge gaps in my knowledge of history.
An article about the notion of traditional marriage.
An interesting discussion about the nature of wants versus needs.
A funny vid tying together X-men with Hugh Jackman's musical work.
Two essays on education.
A sad article in which Joshua Bell played classical music in a busy metro station and only a few people stopped to listen or noticed him. I found the author's tone to be annoying, but the overall article is interesting.
Paul Graham's essay on wisdom.
And finally, Henry Jenkin's blog entry on the wisdom of crowds.
Oh, and for the half of my flist starting their college searches, I've found the Princeton Review's search to be the most useful.
There's the cute story of a cat who rides the bus to a fish and chips store and back.
Then the response of a high school student to an over-the-top letter from MIT.
An article on plagiarism that says everything I tried to say in my research paper ten times better.
A website with an overview of history from prehistoric times until today, which I've vaguely been interested in finding in order to fill in the huge gaps in my knowledge of history.
An article about the notion of traditional marriage.
An interesting discussion about the nature of wants versus needs.
A funny vid tying together X-men with Hugh Jackman's musical work.
Two essays on education.
A sad article in which Joshua Bell played classical music in a busy metro station and only a few people stopped to listen or noticed him. I found the author's tone to be annoying, but the overall article is interesting.
Paul Graham's essay on wisdom.
And finally, Henry Jenkin's blog entry on the wisdom of crowds.
Oh, and for the half of my flist starting their college searches, I've found the Princeton Review's search to be the most useful.
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Date: 2007-04-23 10:03 am (UTC)It's really fucking long though, hos need to learn brevity
The wisdom essay was interesting to me, especially since wisdom vs intelligence has been on my mind a lot (though I used knowledge over intelligence since it seemed more explicitly defined). I've decided that a lot of the people at Wheaton are knowledgeable and yet don't have wisdom for shit.
It was interesting to read the wisdom essay because I felt like the person who wrote it was almost too simple minded. It felt like he was working off of assumptions rather than knowledge of the matter (something that I'll admit is difficult to judge).
the MIT thing is pretty cute.
All these links made me realize that you read vastly different things than me on the internet. I almost never read articles like the ones you had on the internet. I realized that I read web comic rants, The Week articles, bOING bOING posts, and LJ posts all for information over analysis. I think part of the reason is that I don't find the analysis that most people do to have much value, it strikes me as too basic.
It's funny, because I don't really know anyone whose thoughts I respect that actual writes about their thoughts. The New Yorker writers are amazingly sophisticated, but they don't really bother with trying to explain their thoughts, they just write in a way that sometimes leads you to see glimpses of those thoughts. I've been reading Asimov recently and I guess he does quite a bit of analysis and questioning in literary form.
Still, I find the most value in being exposed to new information or synthesis because it allows me to create new ideas and analysis that is sufficiently deep for me. I should read more classic thought, I imagine.