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Overacademization And Ph D Titles
Keller, Morton, and Phyllis Keller (2001). Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University. Story behind the Passage Today in the morning, I received breaking news on my cell phone that went: “Minister for Family Affirs resigns from office.” This is not the first time that this happens to a leading politician. We have been…
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Mirrors
Plath, Sylvia (1971/1961). “Mirror.” Story behind the Passage It is very easy to explain again how this topic and the poem made it to my blog today. In the past days, I heard the term “mirror” at least five times from three different people in many different contexts. The thing is, I am getting sick…
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Reading Helps
Hynes, Arleen McCarty (2019). Bibliotherapy: The Interactive Process. A Handbook. Story behind the Passage Today, someone shared with me that the reading circles we did in the past weeks actually helped her overcome a personal problem. And I mean — a serious personal problem that had to be treated professionally. Then she participated in the circles and…
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Big Bang Theory
Kowalski, Dean A., editor (2012). The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke. Story behind the Passage With a dear friend and mentor of mine, we talked about nerds and sex today. And then she said: “You have to watch The Big Bang Theory! There you have it all. A bunch of…
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Existentialist Freedom
Beauvoir, Simone de (2009/1949). The Second Sex, 37. Story behind the Passage Today in my Feminist reading circle, we discussed Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex. I never read the whole thing before but as soon as I started reading the first chapters again in preparation for the course, I immediately felt catapulted back to the time…
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The Voice
Murakami, Haruki (2011). What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, 19. Story behind the Passage On some days, there are simply no words left. How often do you have to tell people that writing is vision, mission, and method at the same time? Haruki Murakami is one of those writers who writes about writing….
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Feeling Ready
Lelord, François (2010). Hector and the Search for Happiness. Story behind the Passage First, you discover that happiness is the thing you experience every day while you keep looking for it. Then you discover that everything you do to make you happy depends on the stories you tell yourself about yourself. As soon as you…
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Book Of The Week Start Something That Matters
Mycoskie, Blake (2012). Start Something That Matters. Story behind the Book Choice Today’s pick is easy to explain because I chose it for my class on Social Entrepreneurship. The thing is, Mycoskie is NOT a social entrepreneur because he intentionally designed a for-profit-model when starting TOMS. What is social behind this is the mission: Mycoskie wanted…
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Book Of The Week Silent Spring Part Ii
Carson, Rachel (1962). Silent Spring. Story behind the Passage Last week, I did not make it through the Carson book. Today I did — kind of. I have to admit, the book is so dense and so full of profoundly researched examples that I was not able to read and digest every single one of them. But that…
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Oratory
Diggins, John Patrick (1989). The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941–1960, 292. Story behind the Passage Today I gave a talk at a conference together with a dear colleague of mine. I just had five minutes or so — but I used them. I had no idea what I was going to say beforehand. And…