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Started by Cain, July 08, 2009, 07:58:02 PM

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Pope Pixie Pickle

#165
September 11, 2009, 10:24:18 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2009, 09:40:43 PM
Page DuBois -  Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives

We've become accustomed to the wisdom of the ancient Greeks being trotted out by conservatives in the name of timeless virtues. At the same time, critics have charged that multiculturalists and their ilk have hopelessly corrupted the study of antiquity itself, and that the teaching of Classics is dead. Trojan Horses is Page duBois's answer to those who have appropriated material from antiquity in the service of a conservative political agenda-among them, Camille Paglia, Allan Bloom, and William Bennett. She challenges cultural conservatives' appeal to the authority of the classics by arguing that their presentation of ancient Greece is simplistic, ahistorical, and irreparably distorted by their politics. As well as constructing a devastating critique of these pundits, Trojan Horses seeks to present a more complex and more accurate view of ancient Greek politics, sex, and religion, with a Classics primer.

this seems very interesting to me. nao to get pdf's working on Linux.

Cain

#166
September 11, 2009, 10:52:46 AM
That one is actually a .djvu file.  There are readers around for it...just not many.

Pope Pixie Pickle

#167
September 11, 2009, 11:22:58 AM
shit.

this may mean dead tree format for me....

I shall look it up when I get back from work and various other missions today.

Requia ☣

#169
September 12, 2009, 01:16:18 AM
Get Calibre (should be in your repository), then use the command 'any2pdf'.  Converts dvju nicely.
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Requia ☣

#170
September 12, 2009, 01:21:36 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 11, 2009, 09:41:33 AM
I have Anathem by Neal Stephenson, which I haven't read yet, but by all accounts, that shit is heavier than radioactive refuse.

this would be awesome.
Inflatable dolls are not recognized flotation devices.

Cain

#171
September 12, 2009, 01:24:10 AM
Its in HTML, but that's easy to convert to any format.

Telarus

#172
September 12, 2009, 11:35:26 PM Last Edit: September 14, 2009, 10:59:17 PM by Telarus
My dad bought me "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell when he was in town lat month. Very very interesting look at how early choices influence success more than intelligence or ambition.

I'm a few chapters in, and the breakdown of the birthdates of professional Canadian Hockey players is really interesting. Basically, canadian kids are exposed to hockey at a very early age, and  there are multiple leagues as the kids get older. The top level of one league gets more training and coaching, more play time, and so get into a higher class of hockey league than others of their age. So the "best" kids play the "best" kids, etc, etc as they get older.

Well, because the first league has an arbitrary birthday cut-off (Jan 1), it's the kids that are born between January and May that get picked to go to the special training. This is because @ 10 years of age, the ones born in Jan thro May get 7-10 months of extra growing time, and are thus that much bigger and that much more mature than the kids born later in the year. So the bigger more mature kids get the extra training, which puts them in a better position to go to the A-level league next year. And the next, and the next.

90% of Professional Canadian Hockey players are born between January and May. All because of an arbitrary birth-date cut-off selection process.

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Cramulus

#173
September 14, 2009, 07:15:52 PM
wow - that's crazy interesting

The Good Reverend Roger

#174
September 14, 2009, 07:17:55 PM
What about the Phillipics?

That was the best ranting ever done, in that age or any other.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

#175
September 16, 2009, 08:41:12 AM
Actually here is one we can all agree on

Dan Brown's latest historical thriller masterpiece THE LOST SYMBOL.

Yes I have copies.  Both paperback and pdf.

Cain

#176
September 16, 2009, 03:14:02 PM
Its not, trust me.

Emergence, quantum, Washington D.C. and Masons have all suffered terribly at his hand already, and I'm only 50 pages in.

The Good Reverend Roger

#177
September 16, 2009, 04:56:06 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 16, 2009, 03:14:02 PM
Its not, trust me.

Emergence, quantum, Washington D.C. and Masons have all suffered terribly at his hand already, and I'm only 50 pages in.

:lulz:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

#178
September 16, 2009, 05:04:03 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Noetic_Sciences

These guys are getting a lot of play, too.

The Good Reverend Roger

#179
September 16, 2009, 05:13:32 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 16, 2009, 05:04:03 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Noetic_Sciences

These guys are getting a lot of play, too.

Goddamn astronauts.  Let them go to the moon and they all freak the fuck out.

Because space, apparently, is really big, and this makes monkey brains go all wonky.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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