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Monthly Archives: August 2005
Aufheben Bridges
August 29, 2005 – 3:42 pm
Betcha didn’t know that John Roebling, father in the father-son team that designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge, was a student of Hegel’s: (from David McCullough’s The Great Bridge p. 42)
In Berlin, [John Roebling] had studied architecture, bridge construction, and hydraulics. He also studied philosophy under Hegel, who, according to one biographical memoir, “avowed [...]
Roberts and Jones Redux
August 29, 2005 – 2:52 pm
I’d already pointed out that Supreme Court nominee Roberts had harsh words for former Bob Jones University president Bob Jones, but today the AP is running an article that provides some more details:
Documents obtained by The Associated Press showed that Roberts, then working as an assistant to White House counsel Fred Fielding in 1984, had [...]
Faster than the Speed of Light
August 27, 2005 – 5:43 pm
This is interesting:
Scientists have recently succeeded in doing all sorts of fancy things with light, including slowing it down and even stopping it all together. Now a team at the Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland is controlling the speed of light using simple off-the-shelf optical fibers, without the aid of special media [...]
Give Her Some Credit
August 27, 2005 – 2:24 am
Bob Jones University is seeking accreditation now, and that’s a good thing because the increase of degree mills and consequent backlash is likely to make this not an unusual case:
Melinda Benton, who has taught at the Winchester college since 1996, filed suit in 2001, seeking an injunction barring the state from enforcing a law that [...]
Out-classed
August 25, 2005 – 12:15 am
In discussing elites and class in Christianity and Culture, p.112, T. S. Eliot has an interesting observation on the benefits of an upper class:
At the state of dominance of bourgeois society (I think it would be more exact to say here, “upper middle class society”) there is a difference applying particularly to England. However [...]
Happy Birthday Windows 95
August 24, 2005 – 10:26 pm
Slashdot reminds us that today is the tenth anniversary of the debut of Windows 95:
As part of the launch, Microsoft paid $12,000,000 for the rights to use the Rolling Stones’ song “Start Me Up” (containing the prophetic line ‘You make a grown man cry’). “
Nice. But the truth is, despite its problems, Windows 95 [...]