A few months back I listened to a podcast on memory from one of my favorite radio shows, Radiolab out of NYC.
While we often think of our memory as file cabinet and when we want to retrieve a memory we just go into the drawer and pull it out. Through experiments scientist have concluded that [...]
I’ve blogged about This Date, From Henry David Thoreau’s Journal blog before on my other blog, but I enjoyed todays entry so much I had to share it with the UMW community.
We boast that we belong to the Nineteenth Century, and are making the most rapid strides of any nation. But consider how little this [...]
This semester I am also in a US History in Film class and in it we have to create an original online research project analyzing a particular film.
I’ve chosen the Grapes of Wrath and while I already know the Reverend has put some mighty fine clips of the film up on his blog awhile ago [...]
(image from cultural logic)
I am currently taking a course on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and after the first class and doing some readings I am really excited for the class to get going.
I freely admit to being ignorant about souther writers although I have read a few novels by both Faulkner and Morrison. Being [...]
Another school year at Mary Wash.
I have mixed feelings of excitement, nervousness, optimism, and cynicism.
So as promised when I started this blog, cheesy song lyrics for my current cynicism:
Derek Webb - A New Law
“Don’t teach me about politics and government,
just tell me who to vote for.
Don’t teach me about truth and beauty,
just label my music.
Don’t [...]