Ramesh Raskar on femto-photography
Megapixels are so last year. Ramesh Raskar’s TED talk on imaging at a trillion frames per second:
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Three new novelists
Over the spring and summer I read three enjoyable books, all by first-time authors of fiction. Looking forward to more from them. Pietros Maneos, The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos. A lushly Romantic series of letters by young American poet on an odyssey to Rome — both contemporary Rome and the idealized and historical city
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Explaining Postmodernism as university textbook
I learned this week that my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault will be used this academic year as a textbook in philosophy courses in New York, Canada, and South Africa. How cool is that.
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Carlin Romano’s America the Philosophical
Over the years I’ve enjoyed and learned from many of Carlin Romano’s articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He can do good philosophical reporting. So I picked up America the Philosophical, and I was disappointed. Romano’s thesis is that the United States is a nation of vigorous philosophical activity and — contrary to the
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I received an email from the Übermensch today
Subject: Emanation of Zarathustra… Dear Professor Hicks, I’ve noted in your “Overman” piece: “Nietzsche gives a name to his anticipated overman: He calls him Zarathustra, and he names his greatest literary and philosophical work in his honor. “Zarathustra will be the creative tyrant. Having mastered himself and others, he will exuberantly and energetically command and
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Farewell to summer 2012
Summer vacation is over, and the new academic year beckons. A picture from the lazy days. Course syllabi and regular posting coming soon. When I was a kid growing up in Canada, the school year began early in September, right after Labor Day, which seems more civilized to me. Interesting that for as long as
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Mises on the state — a consistency question
A question for those who know the great Ludwig von Mises’s work better than I. Are the following two statements, both from Liberalism, consistent with each other? “I am not an ‘enemy of the state’ any more than I can be called an enemy of sulphuric acid because I am of the opinion that, useful
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Munger and Tabarrok on lateness and punctuality
Two economists channel Miss Manners and Robert’s Rules of Order — or why good time-management manners have practical value. Mike Munger on lateness and punctuality. (I need to get me a terrifying assistant.) And Alex Tabarrok on the economics of punctuality.
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