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Strange Days- When briefs are the right kind of tight June 12, 2013 Colin Burch
- What Saxby Chambliss has confused June 5, 2013 Colin Burch
- A fresh prostitution charge followed by a not-so-fresh mug shot May 29, 2013 Colin Burch
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- Summer albums to remember: ‘Ear Candy’ by King’s X June 18, 2013King’s X released Ear Candy on May 20, 1996, just in time for summer listening. [...]The post Summer albums to remember: ‘Ear Candy’ by King’s X appeared first on Books And Vinyl.
- ‘Radioactive’ by Imagine Dragons moves up the Billboard chart June 14, 2013Imagine Dragons have released the debut album “Night Visions,” and the single “Radioactive” moved up [...]The post ‘Radioactive’ by Imagine Dragons moves up the Billboard chart appeared first on Books And Vinyl.
- Listen to the new album by Radar Vs Wolf June 7, 2013The new, self-titled Radar Vs Wolf album reminds me of a well-executed fireworks display — [...]The post Listen to the new album by Radar Vs Wolf appeared first on Books And Vinyl.
- Summer albums to remember: ‘Ear Candy’ by King’s X June 18, 2013
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- cane corso, n. June 13, 2013
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- Poem of the Day: In Memoriam, July 19, 1914 June 19, 2013We aged a hundred years and this descended In just one hour, as at a stroke. The summer had been brief and now was ended; The body of the ploughed plains lay in smoke. The hushed road burst in colors then, a soaring Lament rose, ringing silver like a bell. And so I covered up my face, imploring God to destroy me before battle fell. And from my memory the sha […]Anna Akhmatova
- Poem of the Day: In Memoriam, July 19, 1914 June 19, 2013
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- As You Walk Out One Morning by Glyn Maxwell June 19, 2013by Glyn Maxwell
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- Streams of Consciousness
- When Is Stress Good for You? [Video] June 6, 2013We hear a lot about the downsides of stress. Too much of it can impair thinking, harm our health and, more prosaically, put us in a bad mood. But anyone who pontificates about the risks of chronic stress would be remiss in not pointing out that some measure of psychological tension is an important (not [...]Ingrid Wickelgren
- Meeting Your Spouse Online May Lead to a Better Marriage June 3, 2013I met my husband at a party in a bygone era. He had no online profile. Neither did I. We didn’t trade email addresses, as neither of us had one of those either. He seemed like a good guy–and a party was as good a venue as any for meeting a future spouse. He still [...]Ingrid Wickelgren
- Hear Me Talk about Social and Emotional Learning! May 10, 2013On Monday, May 13, at 7pm, I’ll be moderating a panel at The New York Academy of Sciences. If you are in the area, please attend! Here a description of the event: Social and Emotional Learning: Preparing Our Children to Excel Monday, May 13, 2013 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM The New York Academy [...]Ingrid Wickelgren
- When Is Stress Good for You? [Video] June 6, 2013
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Leibniz's Exoteric Philosophy June 18, 2013[New Entry by John Whipple on June 18, 2013.] It is no secret that G. W. Leibniz is a difficult philosopher to study. One central reason for this is that the content of his philosophy is extremely challenging. It involves a range of subtle distinctions and paradoxical theses, such as the denial of causal interaction between substances and the thesis that eac […]John Whipple
- The St. Petersburg Paradox June 18, 2013[Revised entry by Robert Martin on June 17, 2013. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, Petersburg-Paradox-tp.png] The St. Petersburg game is played by flipping a fair coin until it comes up tails, and the total number of flips, n, determines the prize, which equals $2n. Thus if the coin comes up tails the first time, the prize is $21 = $2, and the game ends. […]Robert Martin
- Galileo Galilei June 14, 2013[Revised entry by Peter Machamer on June 13, 2013. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) has always played a key role in any history of science and, in many histories of philosophy, he is a, if not the, central figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th Century. His work in physics or natural philosophy, astronomy, and the m […]Peter Machamer
- Leibniz's Exoteric Philosophy June 18, 2013
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Foucault, Michel: Political Thought June 11, 2013Michel Foucault’s Political Thought The work of twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault has increasingly influenced the study of politics. This influence has mainly been via concepts he developed in particular historical studies that have been taken up as analytical tools; “governmentality” and ”biopower” are the most prominent of these. More br […]
- Time May 17, 2013Time Time is what clocks measure. The three key features of time are that it orders events in sequence one after the other; it specifies how long any event lasts; and it specifies when events occur. Yet despite 2,500 years of investigating time, many issues about it are unresolved. Here is a list of the [...]
- Justice, Western Theories of May 16, 2013Western Theories of Justice Justice is one of the most important moral and political concepts. The word comes from the Latin jus, meaning right or law. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the “just” person as one who typically “does what is morally right” and is disposed to “giving everyone his or her due,” offering the [...]
- Foucault, Michel: Political Thought June 11, 2013
- Neuroskeptic
- Book Review: Brainwashed June 18, 2013Brainwashed, by Sally Satel and Scott O Lilienfeld. Basic Books. I wanted to dislike this book. You see, I was suspicious of the fact that one of the authors is a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an organization whose political values I oppose, and, insofar as it’s an organization with political values, [...]
- Why Do Some Irish Drink So Much? June 16, 2013An interesting new paper asks Why Do Some Irish Drink So Much? (EDIT: please note, this is the actual title of the paper) In a survey of students attending University College Dublin, (n=3500 respondents), the authors examined self-reported alcohol consumption. Participants also answered various questions about their family background and their place of origi […]
- So You Want A PhD June 15, 2013I’ve been thinking lately about PhDs, so I’ve written down some advice for anyone considering starting one, based on my own experience and those of the students and former students that I know. My PhD was in neuroscience but as far as I can tell, the situation is similar in most sciences. However, I’m not [...]
- When Cleaning fMRI Data is a Nuisance June 12, 2013A flaw in data processing could be leading to biases in fMRI brain functional connectivity patterns, according to a new report: The Nuisance of Nuisance Regression. Ironically, two high-profile recent papers about bias are amongst the victims. The new paper, from Pittsburgh’s Michael Hallquist and colleagues, is essentially about a case where 2 + 2 [...]
- Smarter Children Have More Gray Matter 60 Years Later June 8, 2013Your IQ at the age of eleven predicts your brain anatomy sixty years later, according to a Canadian/Scottish team of neuroscientists: Childhood cognitive ability accounts for associations between cognitive ability and brain cortical thickness in old age. The authors of the new paper, Karama et al, made use of a unique long-term study of Scottish [...]
- Book Review: Brainwashed June 18, 2013
- Science & the Sacred
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Part 1 June 18, 2013How could we make progress on questions involving the evolution of form without a scientific understanding of how form is generated in the first place? [By the 1970s] population genetics had succeeded in establishing the principle that evolution is due to changes in genes, but this was a principle without an example. No gene that affected the form and evolut […]Sean Carroll
- Series: Evolution Basics June 14, 2013Written by BioLogos Fellow of Biology Dennis Venema, this series of posts is intended as a basic introduction to the science of evolution for non-specialists.Dennis Venema
- Breaking Away from a False Dilemma June 11, 2013With a high-school level understanding of science and theology, I was convinced by this "either-or" argument and, to my knowledge, became the first Young Earth Creationist in my local Nazarene church. I knew the enemy and the enemy had a name. It was Evolution.Steven M. Smith
- God Did It (But I Don’t Exactly Know How the World Was Created) June 10, 2013After we both exhaled some relieved laughter, I whispered, "I believe God created the world and holds it together. Just how he did that is up for debate, but whatever conclusions you come to about the earth's origins, God did it. Okay?"
- Introducing Our New BioLogos Commercials June 7, 2013We’re pleased to introduce the first official commercials for BioLogos, produced by Ryan Pettey of Satellite Pictures and featuring BioLogos vice president Jeff Schloss, philosopher Alister McGrath, and theologian NT Wright.
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Part 1 June 18, 2013
- The New Inquiry
- Narrow bridges June 19, 2013About a bridge in Bucks CountyRob Horning
- I’ll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze June 18, 2013If you spend a lifetime housing your internal surveillance system, you might not be terribly surprised when you find that there are external surveyors you hadn't considered.Autumn Whitefield-Madrano
- Let Loose the Dogs of Love June 18, 2013A conversation with not-novelist Masha Tupitsyn about her new book Love Dog.Mairead Case
- Narrow bridges June 19, 2013
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- A day of rest. June 18, 2013Share and Enjoy:Jessica Hagy
- Some prisoners don’t have tough dilemmas. June 17, 2013Share and Enjoy:Jessica Hagy
- The faster the wheel turns, the more expensive your life is. June 14, 2013Share and Enjoy:Jessica Hagy
- A day of rest. June 18, 2013
- Arcade
- A MOOC Roundtable June 15, 2013 Lee Konstantinou
- Talking back to the MOOC brigade June 7, 2013 David Palumbo-Liu
- Cervantes' Intent May 18, 2013 William Egginton
- "Anthropophagy as a worldview": Camus meets Oswald de Andrade May 6, 2013 João Cezar de Castro Rocha
- Bowdoin under attack May 3, 2013 William Flesch
- amandafrench.net
- Digital Humanities Now
- Resource: WordSeer 3.0 June 13, 2013
- Job: Data Specialist, Library of Congress June 13, 2013
- Resource: Easy steps towards open scholarship June 13, 2013
- Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
- Group and Method: Collaboration in the Digital Humanities April 10, 2013
- Digital Pedagogy in Practice: Workshop Materials March 4, 2013
- Exploring the Significance of Digital Humanities for Philosophy February 26, 2013
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- Black, White, and Red February 20, 2013
- The Hacker Way February 13, 2013
- Take me to your leader: The importance of knowing who’s in charge January 29, 2013
An important church in my family: All Saints Church (Episcopal), Avenue, Maryland
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Colin Burch
Persuasion Consultant for Executives and Candidates
"I make your speeches stronger. I make your letters more persuasive."
Lecturer in English at Coastal Carolina University
Columnist for the Weekly Surge: Beerman and Strange Days
Recipient of a scholarship to the 2006 C.S. Lewis Foundation Summer Institute
Winner of awards from the N.C. Press Association and the S.C. Press Association
Graduate of the Knight Ridder Assigning Editors Seminar
Graduate of the Leadership Institute's Broadcast Journalism School
Completed the Committee of Concerned Journalists Newsroom Workshop
Semi-Finalist, the 1996 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship
