By Dr. James Fieser / 04.01.2011 Professor of Philosophy University of Tennessee at Martin Introduction Larry Phillips Jr.& Emil Mătăsăreanu (the High Incident Bandits), 1997 Robbery / Creative Commons One February morning two armed gunmen wearing black ski masks entered a Los Angeles bank, fired their machine guns and ordered everyone to the ground. Bank personnel gave[…]
OVID WITH LAUREL WREATH (CREDIT : WIKIMEDIA) By Louise Taylor / 05.06.2013 TEFL Educator Southwest France Ovid’s Background Ovid is more playful, intimate and prone to digression. It is episodic in nature. Ovid can’t quite keep his focus on any specific thing, he likes to move from one piece of the story to a totally different story[…]
By Charles Eisenstein / 12.12.2017 Understanding the Power of Our Actions Sometimes when I encounter pioneers in a certain domain of alternative culture, I get the feeling that even if they are doing their work on a small scale–perhaps within a small eco village, an isolated prison, a single community in a war zone or[…]
A heavy oak chest in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) was used to store objects left as collateral for loans of money. Its ironwork features the outline of a plant – but no-one knew why. Now a visitor to the Library may have unravelled the meaning of this decorative motif. 12.10.2017 A visitor to the Parker Library[…]
The Tiber River / Creative Commons From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (student paper) / 12.03.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington Introduction Figure 1: Ancient Tributaries of the Tiber Legend tells us that Rome was founded by a brother who, along with his twin, was sentenced to death as an infant. They were[…]
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (student paper) / 12.14.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington Introduction Water is a basic necessity for life and civilization. Humans can survive a month without eating, but only a week without drinking water (Spector, 2014). In ancient times, before the practice of purifying and cleaning water was[…]