Note: This post continues a series of excerpts from my forthcoming untitled volume of poetry which is a thorough reimagination of the T’ai Hsuan Ching, also known as the Canon of Supreme Mystery. It is intended as neither strict translation nor commentary, but an original vision inspired by the poet’s own response to the text of the Chinese classic.  [...]

Note: This post continues a series of excerpts from my forthcoming untitled volume of poetry which is a thorough reimagination of the T’ai Hsuan Ching, also known as the Canon of Supreme Mystery. It is intended as neither strict translation nor commentary, but an original vision inspired by the poet’s own response to the text of the Chinese classic.  [...]

Note: This post continues a series of excerpts from my forthcoming untitled volume of poetry which is a thorough reimagination of the T’ai Hsuan Ching, also known as the Canon of Supreme Mystery. It is intended as neither strict translation nor commentary, but an original vision inspired by the poet’s own response to the text of the Chinese classic.  [...]

A remarkable short film on YouTube has been viewed over 580,000 times … despite the dialogue’s incomprehensibility. The film, titled Skwerl, is in a sort of fake English described by Gawker as “What English Sounds Like to People Who Don?t Speak It” and by Language Log as “What English Sounds Like to People Who Have [...]

Jane Lubchenco explains that there’s a very good reason to be afraid of drilling the Arctic for oil and natural and gas: we don’t know what the consequences will be. Well, what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. It has huge implications for the global system. And one of the reasons people [...]

Prosblogion reports on a new project and grants program, New Directions in the Study of Prayer, from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC): The SSRC invites proposals from scholars in all disciplines for studies that will enhance knowledge of the social, cultural, psychological, and cognitive dimensions of prayer, and of its origins, variations, and correlations [...]

Just posted in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “Cosmology and Theology.” At a quick glance, looks like an integrally informed student of philosophy could have a field day exploding the misunderstandings of developmental signifieds (that is, assertions offered as fact without regard to their embeddedness within a map of human consciousness, creating claims valid at [...]

Philosophers debate a controversial new theory about the music of the Platonic dialogues.

Note: This post begins a series of excerpts from my forthcoming untitled volume of poetry which is a thorough reimagination of the T’ai Hsuan Ching, also known as the Canon of Supreme Mystery. It is intended as neither strict translation nor commentary, but an original vision inspired by the poet’s own response to the text of [...]

New hope appears for the Tasmanian devil, a marsupial species thought to face a virtually insurmountable threat of a virulent and horrific facial cancer. Wired Science reports the discovery of a population of devils which are resisting the cancer: According to [disease ecologist Hamish] McCallum, there are two likely explanations. Devil facial tumor disease might have [...]