Big Humanity

[alice wellintown]

Terry Eagleton’s New Book

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/a-major-critic-says-weve-forgotten-how-to-read-does-it-matter/article12128764/

*fellow humanists,  culture is the new counter culture? *

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113299/leon-wieseltier-commencement-speech-brandeis-university-2013#



It’s about work:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/how-did-work-life-balance-in-the-us-get-so-awful/276336/

And, the decline of labor

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/asa-lud052813.php



And, Androids…robots…drones …

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-29/behind-the-internet-of-things-is-android-and-its-everywhere

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/05/killer-robots

big numbers

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2885.htm

big data

http://www.nyas.org/publications/Detail.aspx?cid=5347cb3e-0721-4189-a3b9-49435f18e456

big science

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhOvrVUoJoY

and Entropy(?)

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/05/elusive-entropy/
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