{"id":1242,"date":"2007-08-23T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2007-08-23T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T21:01:15","slug":"summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a selection of interesting papers for your summer reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orionmagazine.org\/index.php\/articles\/article\/334\/\">Is it time to unplug our schools?<\/a> &#8211; Almost everything published in Orion is interesting.  This article looks at what schools are doing to teach a deep relationship to nature.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orionmagazine.org\/index.php\/articles\/article\/342\/\">Altar calls for true believers<\/a> &#8211; on the challenge of practicing what we preach with respect to sustainability.  This is a good piece on why systemic change in general doesn&#8217;t necessarily correlate with necessity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orionmagazine.org\/index.php\/articles\/article\/343\/\">Horse Power<\/a> &#8211; Old technology for a new world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/articles\/2007-08-08-norberg-en.html\">No coffee<\/a> &#8211; A great piece on Jurgen Habermas, coffeehouses and the power of conversation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanscientist.org\/template\/AssetDetail\/assetid\/55839?&#038;print=yes\">Modern Cosmology: Science or folktale?<\/a> &#8211; I think the cosmic story is both.  This article argues the same, but from the perspective of a skeptical scientist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/news\/show\/120764.html\">World Bank economist Kirk Hamilton on the planet&#8217;s real wealth.<\/a> &#8211; It turns out that the greatest resource the world has is &#8220;intangible capital&#8221; &#8211; people&#8217;s wisdom and labour.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bigtext\">         <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/review\/2007_08_16\">Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero<\/a>.  A review of a new biography about the Italian patriot Giusepe Garibaldi, for whom my local extinct volcano at the head of Howe Sound was named.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/14\/science\/14tier.html?ex=1188014400&#038;en=259bef406ca837c7&#038;ei=5070\"> Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy&#8217;s Couch<\/a> &#8211; <span class=\"bigtext\"> Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom think it&#8217;s possible we live in The Matrix.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/3rd_culture\/dysonf07\/dysonf07_index.html\">Heretical thoughts about science and society<\/a> &#8211; Freeman Dyson muses about the global warming crises.  But he might be wrong.  He&#8217;s been wrong before!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bobsutton.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2007\/08\/evidence-based-.html\">The quandry of quality<\/a> &#8211; a great blog post from Bob Sutton on what is hard to measure but essential nonetheless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>[tags]nature, sustainability, change, horses, Habermas, coffee, conversation, cosmology, big bang, human resources, Garibaldi, Matrix, Nick Bostrom, freeman dyson, robert crick, global warming[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a selection of interesting papers for your summer reading: Is it time to unplug our schools? &#8211; Almost everything published in Orion is interesting. This article looks at what schools are doing to teach a deep relationship to nature. Altar calls for true believers &#8211; on the challenge of practicing what we preach with respect to sustainability. This is a good piece on why systemic change in general doesn&#8217;t necessarily correlate with necessity. Horse Power &#8211; Old technology for a new world. No coffee &#8211; A great piece on Jurgen Habermas, coffeehouses and the power of conversation. 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