Will be doing my thought-experimental Reading the New Testament class again next term.
Now that I’m taking a break from my big blog and posting many small things here at micro.blog, I am just so impressed by how well thought-out this service is. It’s a delight to use, so much more streamlined and less cumbersome than WordPress. Props to @manton & crew.
An extremely raucous murder of crows in the neighborhood this morning is reminding me of lines from a poem by E. B. White: “In their assemblies at the edge of town, / Crows introduce resolutions, then vote them down.”
What an image. Among the silent trees a Russian rocket finds its resting place. (Taken near a Ukranian village by Francisco Seco / AP.)
Temple Grandin: “Some visual thinkers, like me, are ‘object visualizers’—we see the world in photorealistic images. Many of us are graphic designers, artists, skilled tradespeople, architects, inventors, mechanical engineers. ‘Spatial visualizers’ see the world in patterns and abstractions. They are the music and math minds—the statisticians, computer coders, electrical engineers, and physicists. Being an object visualizer means I’m good with my hands, at fixing and making things. But I’m terrible in areas such as algebra, which rely entirely on abstraction and provide nothing to visualize.”
Currently reading: Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada Palmer 📚
Noah Smith: “The authoritarians of the world are already making a pretty good case for liberal democracy simply by being incredibly incompetent.”