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The Two Cultures Problem And The Rationality Axiom
Murray Gell-Mann [physicist] qtd. in Brockman, John. The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995, 22. Story behind the Passage Today, I did not even have to take a picture of the page I am writing about because I had the passage in my own book — or at least, in the manuscript….
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Open Science
Franzen, Martina (2018). Die Digitale Transformation der Wissenschaft. Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 40:4, 9. Story behind the Passage What is scholarship? I have been struggling with this question ever since I became a scholar. And I still have not figured it out. To me, it always seemed weird how you, from one day to the next by…
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Book Of The Week The Ultimate Hitchhiker S Guide To The Galaxy 1
Adams, Douglas (2002/1979). The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Story behind the Book Choice It is pretty simple. The more you get into tech, the more you are interested in the future — or what the future looked like to people in the past. Hence, you end up with science fiction. Actually, when I bought my “new”…
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Freeing The Inner Rebel
Heintze, Anne (2016). Auf viele Arten anders: Die vielbegabte Scanner-Persönlichkeit: Leben als kreatives Multitalent, 203. Story behind the Passage I talked about scanner personalities and Barbara Sher before. Anne Heintze is pretty much the German pendant on this topic. She translated and adapted Sher’s wisdom for the German audience. Today, I grabbed the book because…
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1001 Blog Posts Sheherazade S Legacy
Darraj, Susan Muaddi, ed. (2004). Sheherazade’s Legacy: Arab and Arab American Women on Writing, 3. Story behind the Passage This morning I woke up and I had an idea: What if I continued my blogging challenge beyond my self-set target of 365 days? What if I extended it to 1001 blog posts? Is that crazy? Is…
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Idea Bazooka
bazooka | Origin and meaning of bazooka by Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com) Story behind the Passage Actually, I think, my next degree might even be in Physics. Am I kidding? Probably! I would not manage to pass any exams in Physics, I think. Still, I have never never been that close to the natural sciences….
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Somewhere Else
Kaldas, Pauline (2007). Letters from Cairo, 131. Story behind the Passage The passage is from a book I discussed in my Ph.D. thesis back in 2013. I remember the story very well, like most of the narratives by Arab American women that I worked on. The funny thing is that for so many years, all this…
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Time More Is More
Dobelli, Rolf (2013). The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions. Story behind the Passage Time has always been an issue for human beings. After all, we know that our life time is limited and that is why all of us, at some point in our life, discover that time really is the most…
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Second Third Fourth Careers
Drucker, Peter F. (2008/1999). “Managing Oneself.” Harvard Business Review Classics, 47. Story behind the Passage Yes, I talk about change all the time. But sometimes I have the feeling — I am either missing out on changing my life or I am changing my life all the time without me even noticing it! As I said to…
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Circularity
Lewis, Richard (2014). How Different Cultures Understand Time. Business Insider. Story behind the Passage In a meeting on a new project today we talked about the circular economy. I feel, this is one of these “trendy” concepts in economics that has been around for quite a while but now I am actually seeing it in practice — how…