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3D printing - 0 views

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    This is a BBC site for the 3D printing that we've talked about in class from time to time. Pretty cool
Brian Earley

Road Conditions - 1 views

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    Here's the site for all your weather-related Road conditions across the U.S.  Pick your state and share it with your friends. Drive safe everyone!
Brian Earley

FutureQuake Online - 0 views

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    Dr. Future interviews famous people, including Alvin Toffler.  Check "past shows" and you'll find a library of 5 years of AM recordings.
Brian Earley

2001: A Space Odyssey Interpreted - 1 views

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    After watching the movie I was lost, but this interpretation gave me an understanding of the crucial bits without the drawn out breathing clips. If you watch this four part video for 30 minutes you've practically watched the movie.
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Definitions of Jungian Terms from Marie Louise von Franz - 0 views

  • Alter ego: (Latin) The other aspect of oneself, a second ego; also, one's doppelgänger.
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      Who knew Batman had a doppelganger
  • Extroversion, extroverted: Directed outwardly. A psychic attitude, characterized by a concentration of interest on objects; easily susceptible to outer influences.
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      I always thought of extroverts and introverts as to social abilities.  The introvert seems like the more desirable of these two ideas.
  • Introversion, introverted: Directed inwardly; a concentration of energy on inner-psychic processes, oriented to an inner evaluation of experience.
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    Carl Jung created his own terms to describe his ideas.  
Brian Earley

Carl Jung and Tarot Meanings Dictionary H - P - 1 views

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    Look at individuation.  Jungian terms spread even to the mystical outskirts.
Brian Earley

SparkNotes: Yeats's Poetry: "The Second Coming" - 3 views

  • (It is safe to say that very few people who love this poem could paraphrase its meaning to satisfaction.)
  • In other words, the world’s trajectory along the gyre of science, democracy, and heterogeneity is now coming apart, like the frantically widening flight-path of the falcon that has lost contact with the falconer; the next age will take its character not from the gyre of science, democracy, and speed, but from the contrary inner gyre—which, presumably, opposes mysticism, primal power, and slowness to the science and democracy of the outer gyre. The “rough beast” slouching toward Bethlehem is the symbol of this new age; the speaker’s vision of the rising sphinx is his vision of the character of the new world.
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    For those of us who don't catch what Yeats is throwing
Brian Earley

InnoCentive: Crowdsourcing bored brains - 0 views

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    InnoCentive showcases tough problems in industry that have stumped the pros.  Register as a solve, and get paid to figure it out.
Brian Earley

NSG IT World: History of Computers - 0 views

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      Sticky note marks the spot of beginning.
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Boolefest a celebration of the life of George Boole - 0 views

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      Activities arranged around Boole's impact.  Lectures for 4 nights straight.
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      link to a cool video also.
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      Final Project: I think our class could create a short biography about some character from class discussion that would be as good or better than this video.
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    Boolefest! I tried twitter and found this week long event at the University of Lincoln.  We had Boole day on Sunday 10/10/10.  Way to go binary.
Brian Earley

Of Things That Matter Most - 0 views

  • For example, it wasn’t long after astronauts and cosmonauts orbited the earth that they realized ballpoint pens would not work in space. And so some very smart people went to work solving the problem. It took thousands of hours and millions of dollars, but in the end, they developed a pen that could write anywhere, in any temperature, and on nearly any surface. But how did the astronauts and cosmonauts get along until the problem was solved? They simply used a pencil.
  • Let us simplify our lives a little. Let us make the changes necessary to refocus our lives on the sublime beauty of the simple, humble path of Christian discipleship—the path that leads always toward a life of meaning, gladness, and peace.
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    Maybe we don't need to drop everything and live in the woods.  We need to take a look at life and prioritize.  We can have a Walden-like experience by simplifying.
Brian Earley

Let Him Do It with Simplicity - 1 views

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    Simplicity inspired by Thoreau's Walden experience
Brian Earley

Life's Lessons Learned - 0 views

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      Thoreau put his priorities on understanding himself.  We must make our priorities and work diligently for them.
  • I have known many great men and women.
  • they all have this in common: they work diligently and persistently towards achieving their goals
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  • “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,” wrote Henry David Thoreau, “and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”1     UAdd a Note In other words, never take your eye off the ball.
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    I love this football story, but it emphasizes following simple principles in a complex system.  "Keep your eye on the . . ." We each decide what fills the blank.  Let's see our dreams and advance confidently in that direction.
Brian Earley

Let Him Do It with Simplicity - Ensign Nov. 2008 - 0 views

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    Elder Perry refers to Thoreau's experience and his own at Walden Pond.  He teaches importance principles about simplifying life.
Brian Earley

Humorous asides - 1 views

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    The world fair continues today. These funny pictures and articles give great publicity though it could be considered rude.
Brian Earley

BYU IT Training - Learn how to... - 0 views

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    This is the BYU training site for all those programs that everyone needs to be able to use.
Brian Earley

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Burke's Writings and Speeches, Volume the Second, by Edm... - 0 views

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      Irish born English conservative approves of the American Revolution
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    The gutenberg project is an amazing source for online books and I just happened to find a compilation of Edmund Burke's works online.
Brian Earley

YouTube - Jeff Howe - Crowdsourcing - 0 views

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    very cool video to meet the author.  I'm picking up the book from the library.  I'll post this video and hopefully a book review within a week.
Brian Earley

Rene Descartes perceptions of philosophy - 0 views

  • As Descartes said, “Those who set about giving precepts must esteem themselves more skilful than those to whom they advance them”
  • In other words, someone might alter the truth solely so they could come up with something to say, while the real truth might not be capable of being expressed so easily, it can only be observed. Some things in life are too complicated to express, but however there are going to be people who believe they can express those things, even though they cannot accurately do so.
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      I have read scientific journals wherein the author reports on complex interactions or relationships on the molecular level. Often I believe that they really cannot accurately do so. Perhaps scientific journals would be better if they were accompanied by videos. That would make them more like blog posts.
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  • are the emotions which are based off of your opinions even real, since they are based off of opinions?
  • Your perception is going to determine what it is that you feel, that is, your conscious and unconscious perception of what is going on is
  • For it seemed to me that I might meet with much more truth in the reasonings that each man makes on the matters that specially concern him, and the issue of which would very soon punish him if he made a wrong judgment, than in the case of those made by a man of letters in his study touching speculations that lead to no result, and that bring about no other consequences to himself excepting that he will be all the more vain the more they are removed from common sense, since in this case proves to him to have employed so much more ingenuity and skill trying to make them seem probable.
  • More especially did I reflect in each matter that came before me as to anything that could make it subject to suspicion of doubt, and give occasion for mistake, and I rooted out of my mind all the errors that might have formerly crept in. Not that indeed I imitated the skeptics, who only doubt for the sake of doubting, and pretend to by always uncertain; for, on the contrary, my design was only to provide myself with good ground for assurance, and to reject the quicksand and mud in order to find the rock or clay.”
  • since emotional intelligence is not completely concrete, it can be subject to skeptics
  • “how do I know that anything is even real”
  • Accordingly I shall now suppose, not that a true God, who as such must be supremely good and the fountain of truth, but that some malignant genius exceedingly powerful and cunning has devoted all his powers in the deceiving of me; I shall suppose that the sky, the earth, colors, shapes, sounds and all external things are illusions and impostures of which this evil genius has availed himself for the abuse of my credulity…”
  • I am, I exist. This is certain. How often? As often as I think. For it might indeed be that if I entirely ceased to think, I should thereupon altogether cease to exist. I am not at present admitting anything which is not necessarily true; and, accurately speaking, I am therefore [taking myself to be] only a thinking thing, that is to say, a mind, an understanding or reason-terms the significance of which has hitherto been unknown to me. I am, then a real thing, and really existent. What thing? I have said it, a thinking thing
  • So it really is thought that makes him who he is, since he is thinking about himself all of the time, in addition to thinking about and in regular life.
  • Thought determines who someone is because your thoughts are controlled, and all your thoughts over your lifetime caused your emotional development, which causes you to be who you are.
  • So it is easy to say that your thoughts understand and/or control who you are, but it is much harder to say that your emotions understand and/or control who you are.
  • I recognize it is impossible that He should ever deceive me, since in all fraud and deception there is some element of imperfection. The power of deception may indeed seem to be evidence of subtlety or power; yet unquestionably the will to deceive testifies to malice and feebleness, and accordingly cannot be found in God.
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      I think people in "The Matrix" would love Descartes
  • “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded”
  • conclusive as to whether or not pleasing other people infinitely is going to be self-beneficial, it could be considered a perfect thing to do since it is positively contributing to life.
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      The conclusion for me from this commentary is that thoughts are what make us who we are. Therefore, we must put a lot of our energy into controlling our thoughts so we can become what we want to be.
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      On my mission, I taught a lady that was offended to the point of tears when a member called the Prophet, the 'mouthpiece' of the Lord. She thought it as a very degrading term to call such a respectable man. Perceptions determine feelings.
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    This commentary explains the unique observations that Rene Descartes made of observations. I feel like I have had similar thoughts at times. I feel comforted knowing a dead French guy thought the same way that I think.
Brian Earley

Peritoneum Then - 0 views

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    I compared the enlightenment encyclopedia to the wikipedia. The observations are similar if not the same. Louis Jaucourt observed what we still observe today.
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