March 20, 2009

The Circe conference this year is centered on the theme of Nature. From what I understand it is not just about the natural world, but also about the nature of things: the nature world around us, the nature of God, the nature of students, the nature of the seven liberal arts, the nature of teaching, […]

Archimedes once claimed that if you gave him a fulcrum he could move the whole world. He understood leverage. In the last 160 years, but beginning even before that, the world has been moved. We do not live or think as people did 200 years ago. This is not an unmixed curse. Life 200 years