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This morning I learned that we lost a great literary and philosophical mind with the passing of Umberto Eco at 84.  I have long been a f...

I'm interested in a distinction that i don't actually see Steve Baker making very often in his book, The Postmodern Animal , namely ...

All of my PhD applications are fully in and submitted and i now just have to wait until i start hearing the laughter start to burble out of ...

I've now made my first ever conference presentation . And it was much more painless than i expected. Attended by only about 12 or so peo...

According to Ricky Gervais, a great philosopher once said: "There are three things you need in this life. The first is an important rel...

Yesterday afternoon i went to Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. It was exhilarati...

And i'm done. That was it, then. Tonight i handed in my last two M.A. assignments ever. (Unless some other stupid school forces me to g...