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gleans at 12:10 AM MT, 11/08

2009-11-08T02:13:17-05:00

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'Lost' cargo ship Arctic Sea gives up its secrets - The crew at the centre of the hijacked cargo vessel tell of their ordeal for the first time http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6907933.ece
The cheat's guide to dinner-party chat - No time to read the latest idea lit? Then take our crash course in the groovy new philosophies http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6900872.ece

'Mad Men' is putting the Manhattan martini back on lunchtime menus in New York, says Stephen Whitlock.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/northamerica/usa/newyork/6513320/New-York-The-perfect-Manhattan-martini.html

Christopher Middleton applauds ’World Have Your Say’ - a phone-in radio programme that has taken the world by storm.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6501080/World-Have-Your-Say-global-discussion-that-asks-the-unaskable.html

Barack Obama's reaction to bad news is to play it so cool that Americans yearn for a bit more drama - and some even for his predecessor, writes Toby Harnden in Washington.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6520286/Bloodless-President-Barack-Obama-makes-Americans-wistful-for-George-W-Bush.html

Parent Academies (Life / Education)

How schools are helping moms and dads do more for their kids

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine#ixzz0WD5zH1IO

The Dollar in Danger (The Curious Capitalist)

Much of the worried talk about our currency sounds like hyperbole. But what if it isn't?

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine#ixzz0WDDQEvNv addenda

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New Publication

Cecil Collins: The Artist as Writer and Image Maker

See details here

The Underlying Order and other Essays is a gathering of six previously uncollected essays by Kathleen Raine, selected and with an Introduction by her Literary Executor Brian Keeble. Contents: Nature and Meaning, The Underlying Order: Nature and Imagination, A Sense of Beauty, John Donne and the Baroque Doubt, Shelley as a Mythological Poet, Wordsworth: A Remembered Experience. A downloadable order form with further information is available here

Inward Lies the Way – German Thought and the Nature of Mind by Stephen Cross and Jack Herbert (Temenos Academy Papers no. 26) is a 136 page softcover book comprising four lectures originally given at the Temenos Academy in 2002. The lectures included in the book are ‘The German Romantics and the Vision of India’, ‘Goethe’s Faust as Opus Alchymicum’, ‘Arthur Schopenhauer and the Thought of India’ and ‘C G Jung and the German Tradition’. The book costs £9.50 inclusive of postage and packing (UK only, other rates apply for overseas). A downloadable order form is available here

Kathleen Raine – Poetic Imagination and the Vision of Reality by Brian Keeble has been published as Temenos Academy Papers no. 28. A booklet of 23 pages, with Sue Hufton’s calligraphy on the cover, it is the text of the Kathleen Raine Centenary Memorial Lecture which was given by Brian Keeble on 2nd June this year. The book costs £6 inclusive of postage and packing (UK only, other rates apply for overseas). A downloadable order form is available here

gleans at 8:55 AM MT, 11/07

2009-11-07T10:57:15-05:00

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The US Army major who carried out the Fort Hood massacre sprayed more than 100 rounds at his comrades using a gun nicknamed the "cop killer."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6519392/Fort-Hood-shootings-gunman-used-cop-killer-weapon-in-massacre-at-US-Army-base.html

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-texas7-2009nov07,0,652942.story - By Don Lee - The Lone Star State's attractions include its low cost of living and no income tax.

Mad Men's Don Draper effect - http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1106/p09s01-coop.html

Less poetry, music but big Miami book fair goes on http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMBYi-8N5dV9JMW9lF14lPTeAJ-QD9BQ7M4G3

Human suspicion of realistic robots and avatars may have earlier origins than previously thought.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8344203.stm

A technology helpline claims that there are significant differences between the types of calls it receives from men and women.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8346810.stm

Osamu Tezuka was a seminal figure in 20th century Japanese popular culture. A new book by Helen McCarthy explores the work below the waterline. Here she tells us why Tezuka is so important

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/6508042/The-Art-of-Osamu-Tezuka-God-Of-Manga.html

Dublin's Other Poetry: Rhymes and Songs of the City (Paperback - Sep 15, 2009)

http://www.amazon.com/Dublins-Other-Poetry-Rhymes-Songs/dp/1843511614/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257608564&sr=1-1

Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World - http://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-Lowry-Mersey-Bryan-Biggs/dp/1846312280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257608621&sr=1-1

Zombie-Pataphysics - http://zombiepataphysics.blogspot.com/
A look at art, science, philosophy, computing, humour, humor, seriously zombie, zombi, zombies, alchemy, politics, food, cooking, Derrida, amazing, ...

gleans at 8:30 AM MST, 11/05

2009-11-05T10:30:51-05:00

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Wikipedia writer/editors are 80% male, 65% single, 85% without children, about 70% under the age of 30. Does that tell us anything?. http://bostonreview.net/BR34.6/morozov.php
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_sc/us_space_elevator
Sign Language: week 73

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/signlanguage/6501798/Sign-Language-week-73.html

The Men Who Stare at Goats: A new film about psychic warfare is based on its use during the Cold War, but paranormal powers are still being harnessed for murder investigations today. Florence Waters meets one of Britain’s leading professional remote

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/6495470/The-Men-Who-Stare-at-Goats-the-power-of-psychic-spying.html

Paired right, the versatile little citrus punches up an otherwise ordinary dish. Pie is a natural, of course, but also consider scones, marinades and even ceviche. http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-keylime4-2009nov04,0,7394157.story
Watching the decline of the California State University system from within its boardroom mirrors the erosion of the California dream. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bleich4-2009nov04,0,1193621.story

Seville: a city for all seasons

Join the crowds in Seville for Holy Week, or enjoy the peace and warm climate of winter. Nick Trend weighs up the options.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/6487915/Seville-a-city-for-all-seasons.html

My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas (Hardcover - Aug 5, 2009)

http://www.amazon.com/My-Fathers-Places-Aeronwy-Thomas/dp/1849010056/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257289113&sr=1-1

No Cloak No Dagger by Grace Stoddard (Paperback - Oct 15, 2008)

http://www.amazon.com/No-Cloak-Dagger-Grace-Stoddard/dp/1604941448/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257289209&sr=1-1

When invited by a millionaire to jet between islands, sampling food and wine created by world experts to raise money for charity, how could anyone refuse? Robert Joseph gets his fill of fine Caribbean dining

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/foodandwineholidays/6445949/Caribbean-cuisine-on-a-Branson-budget.html

The rapidly increasing surveillance power of unmanned aircraft gives U.S. officials an option besides troops. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-drone-eyes2-2009nov02,0,3816238.story

San Antonio successfully lobbied to win a competition to host the new Air Force cyberwarfare operation. - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/us/01cyberwar.html?ref=us
Colorado county copes with methane mystery

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_bi_ge/us_methane_mystery;_ylt=Auz060vdrdpjWNYe93J9Biis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM0cWNnbDliBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTAyL3VzX21ldGhhbmVfbXlzdGVyeQRjcG9zAzcEcG9zAzQEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNjb2xvcmFkb2NvdW4-

CDC Study Finds Swine Flu May Have Infected As Many As 5.7 Million Americans

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2009/October/30/Swine-Flu.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Drzal-t.html?_r=1&ref=booksInside one of the world's largest data centers - CNET gets a tour of Microsoft's 700,000-square-foot Chicago facility--a data center the company says just might be the biggest on the planet.

The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess (The Public Square) by Andrei Codrescu (Paperback - Feb 22, 2009) <== must reading for Dadaists

http://www.amazon.com/Posthuman-Dada-Guide-Public-Square/dp/0691137781

gleans at 11:20 AM MST, 11/04

2009-11-04T13:18:35-05:00

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Scientists seem addicted to predictions lately, the more ominous or hysterical, the better. Science didn’t used to be like this, says Stuart Blackman. What’s going on?... more»

The Secret Ingredient Is Politics
By MARIAN BURROS
At the White House, politics, cooking and popular culture collide.

Cookbooks as Edible Adventures
By JULIA MOSKIN
Even in the age of ever-expanding recipe databases, cookbooks are still alluring. Here are this season’s most interesting titles.

Restaurants
Hop Off the Wheel and Taste Paris
By SAM SIFTON
The food at Le Relais de Venise recalls an era of silver plate and good manners, the simplicity of salad, steak and fries, heavy on the salt and butter, rich as a cardiologist.

Slide Show: Inside Marea | Post a Comment

The Pour

An Honest Day’s Work From Vienna
By ERIC ASIMOV
That any wine comes from Vienna seems absurd on the face of it. Great urban centers are not known for their vineyards, beyond a novel acre here and there. But Vienna is different.

The Temporary Vegetarian
By ELAINE LOUIE
Joaquin Baca only serves the food he loves at Brooklyn Star in Williamsburg, including the green bean casserole.

Key lime: Handle with care - By Noelle Carter - Paired right, the versatile little citrus punches up an otherwise ordinary dish. Pie is a natural, of course, but also consider scones, marinades and even ceviche.

Apres Gourmet: Food magazines find their niches

By Russ Parsons - In a narrowcasting world, the magazine's demise may have been caused by its inclusiveness.

California's higher-education debacle

By Jeff Bleich - Watching the decline of the California State University system from within its boardroom mirrors the erosion of the California dream.

Elevator to space? They're really trying -

Seville: a city for all seasons

Join the crowds in Seville for Holy Week, or enjoy the peace and warm climate of winter. Nick Trend weighs up the options.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/6487915/Seville-a-city-for-all-seasons.html

There's a certain degree of irony in watching an online video about an analogue blogger using a blackboard to bring news ... [more]

Does the universe have a skeleton? ... [more]

What makes us self-aware and how can you test it? ... [more]

New clues point to the puzzling origin of the Falklands wolf [more] ... [more]

gleans at 9:35 AM MST, 11/01

2009-11-01T11:33:13-05:00

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Police quash nude pumpkin run

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8336308.stm

Some Like it Hot: Me, Marilyn and the Movie

http://www.amazon.com/Some-Like-Hot-Marilyn-Movie/dp/075352225X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257089159&sr=1-1

gleans at 7:35 AM MST, 11/01

2009-11-01T09:36:11-05:00

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Geithner: Recovery could be 'a little choppy' The Associated Press - ‎WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the economic recovery "could be a little choppy" and it's going to take a while. ...
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gleans + 1xlagniappe at 5:50 PM MT, 10/31

2009-10-31T19:49:00-04:00

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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/why-computers-suck-at-maths-644771

Is There a 'Bad Driver' Gene?

Prayers and Criticism After F.B.I. Kills Imam

Southern Cornbread Dressing MuffinsIt’s the season for dressing up, starting with the cornbread.

November NightThe wind goes keening through the dark,

Disconsolate for what is lost—

The rose, the leaf, the lyric stream

Now songless under ice and frost.

12 Causes of fatigue and how to fight it

After all the fuss, govt health plan to cover few

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« back to Samuel Taylor Coleridge books

Launch Reading Mode

Youth and Age

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,

Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee -

Both were mine! Life went a-maying

With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,

When I was young!

When I was young? -Ah, woeful When!

Ah! for the change 'twixt Now and Then!

This breathing house not built with hands,

This body that does me grievous wrong,

O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands

How lightly then it flashed along,

Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore,

On winding lakes and rivers wide,

That ask no aid of sail or oar,

That fear no spite of wind or tide!

Nought cared this body for wind or weather

When Youth and I lived in't together.

Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;

Friendship is a sheltering tree;

O the joys! that came down shower-like,

Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,

Ere I was old!

Ere I was old? Ah woeful Ere,

Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!

O Youth! for years so many and sweet

'Tis known that Thou and I were one,

I'll think it but a fond conceit -

It cannot be that Thou art gone!

Thy vesper-bell hath not yet tolled -

And thou wert aye a masker bold!

What strange disguise hast now put on,

To make believe that thou art gone?

I see these locks in silvery slips,

This drooping gait, this altered size:

But Springtide blossoms on thy lips,

And tears take sunshine from thine eyes:

Life is but Thought: so think I will

That Youth and I are housemates still.

Dew-drops are the gems of morning,

But the tears of mournful eve!

Where no hope is, life's a warning

That only serves to make us grieve

When we are old:

That only serves to make us grieve

With oft and tedious taking-leave,

Like some poor nigh-related guest

That may not rudely be dismist;

Yet hath out-stayed his welcome while,

And tells the jest without the smile.

gleans + 1xaddenda at 9:15 AM MT, 10/31 (Halloween for the less alert)

2009-10-31T11:14:05-04:00

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“It is much better to read books of travel than to travel oneself,” Somerset Maugham wrote. Pico Iyer is grateful he failed to take his own advice... more»

Science may at last help us to answer the eternal political question: really now, are liberals smarter than conservatives?... more»

Could texting be good for students?

Iran's Nuclear Response Creates a Quandary for Obama

By ANDREW LEE BUTTERS - By pushing back against what Western powers regard as the key aspect of a nuclear deal, Tehran is making clear that there'll be no quick diplomatic solution to the standoff

Cyberattacks traced to N. Korea

addenda - education stuff from the NYT

The R.O.T.C. Dilemma
By MICHAEL WINERIP

Joyce Dopkeen for The New York Times
SYMBOLS Anthony Runco, left, and Taylor Giffen as cadets at Yale, at the Memorial Quadrangle Gate (forged with crests of the armed services).

The ban of the program at the elites is in its 40th year. Yet the students are hardly antimilitary. The opposite, in fact. Is it time to bring R.OT.C. back?

Post a Comment »

At Public Universities: Less for More
By PAUL FAIN
Why top flagships are raising tuition, enrolling better students and becoming more like privates. And why that may not be a good thing.

Slide Show: Public University Snapshots
Graphic: States' Evidence
Post a Comment »

The Whole Applicant
By LISA W. FODERARO
Who are you, really? State schools want to know.

For Debate: Who Picks School Board
By WINNIE HU
In Montclair, N.J., which will vote on whether to change its appointed board, groups and countergroups have formed on each side.

Drop the Halloween Mask! It Might Scare Someone
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Deeming some Halloween traditions too scary or offensive, schools across the country are limiting what costumes are acceptable.

Slide Show
City Room: Only-in-New York Costume Ideas
Post a Comment

College Enrollment Set Record in 2008
By TAMAR LEWIN
Almost 40 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds were enrolled in college last year, a Pew Research Center study found.

After Error by Yale, Anger and a Court Fight Ensue
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
A major Korean university in Seoul has accused Yale of negligence after it mistakenly confirmed a professor’s claims of having a Ph.D.

Federal Researchers Find Lower Standards in Schools
By SAM DILLON
A study shows that nearly a third of the states lowered their academic standards to avoid the penalties under the No Child Left Behind law.

gleans at 6:25 PM MT, 10/30

2009-10-30T20:24:07-04:00

Poll: 23 percent of American adults believe in ghosts

Spooky tech tales to make your computer crawl

We asked readers to send in their spookiest tech tales in advance of Halloween, and they delivered the gore. Get ready to be scared.

Having My Cake and Eating It Too
By MELISSA CLARK

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times

This sweet, gooey butter cake resembles the center of a pecan pie, with a crackling crust.

The Minimalist

To the Middle East, With Collard Greens
By MARK BITTMAN
These little meatballs made with lamb, bulgur, cumin and mint are destined to become part of a dish that’s Middle Eastern in spirit.

Video: Lamb Meatballs

This Week’s Recipes

Lamb Meatballs And Collard Dolmades

St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake

Apple-Beet Chutney

Ginger-Apple Upside-Down Cake

Fresh Apple Salsa

Curry-Glazed Duck Legs

Recipes for Health: Risotto With Winter Squash and Collard Greens

Recipes for Health: Potato and Collard Green Hash

Hungarian Cabbage Strudel

Brussels Sprouts With Bacon and Figs

Leek Bread Pudding

Sautéed Chicken Breasts With Tarragon

Seafood in Stout

Lobster Cantonese

Recipes for Health: Collard Greens With Farro

gleans + 1xlagniappe at 9:55 AM MT, 10/30

2009-10-30T11:53:50-04:00

Asterix and the golden jubilee
guardian.co.uk - ... her translation solution – to use very dated, stilted, 'upper class twit' language in the style of PG Wodehouse – met with the French writer's approval. ...

Email has its faults, but it has also been, like journalism early in the 20th century, a cleansing agent for prose, inhibiting dull, abstract wordiness... more»

Science has set out to explain human life and its origins but has succeeded only in emphasizing that life is a mystery and we a mystery to ourselves ... [more]

Cheap and disgusting: Delicacies of the world

Ghost stories from haunted Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/6461939/Ghost-stories-from-haunted-Britain.html

***lagniappe***

Traditional Scottish Songs
- Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

When Robert Burns sent this song to Mrs Dunlop he commented "There is a small river, Afton, that falls into the Nith, near New Cumnock, which has some charming, wild, romantic scenery on its banks."

Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
Though stock-dove whose echo resounds from the hill,
Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny dell,
Thou green created lapwing, thy screaming fore-bear,
I charge you, disturb not my slumbering fair.

How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighbouring hills,
Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills.
There daily I wander, as morn rises high,
My flocks and my Mary's sweet cot in my eye.
How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below,
Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow.
There oft, as mild evening creeps over the lea,
The sweet scented birk shades my Mary and me.

Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides
And winds by the cot where my Mary resides.
How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave,
As gathering sweet flow'rets, she stems thy clear wave.
Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes,
Flow gently , sweet river, the theme of my lays.
My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring stream,
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

Meaning of unusual words:
braes=hillsides
birk=birch
cot=cottage
lave=wash