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...thing was being felt inside her and inside me--that it wasn't two different feelings, it was the same feeling," Hofstadter says. "If you believe that what makes for consciousness is some kind of abstract pattern, then it's sort of a self-evident fact that whatever pattern exists in my brain could exist in other physical structures in the world." I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it's also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of Magical Thinking for mathematicians...
...after finishing the clip, I was left wondering several different things, only one of which merits reprinting here: have the blues ceased to exist in mainstream popular culture? Part of the reason “Black Snake Moan” drew my attention was the relative rarity of hearing blues in a popular context (read: not on NPR or PBS). I’ve always loved the blues, but I recognize their relative obscurity and never expected to encounter them in any conventional, popularized setting...
...Harvard’s overall social scene. When I arrived at Harvard, I remember having the feeling that I’d reverted to middle school. The place struck me as overwhelmingly cliquey, and final club types were hardly the worst of this—cliques seemed to exist according to race, party affiliation, and a laundry list of other characteristics...
...satellite radio shouldn’t overshadow the larger issues confronting the radio industry, namely figuring out ways to incorporate new technology with new programming strategies. Local programming, local personalities, local bands—radio is a medium that needs to be devoted to the communities in which they exist, not to Howard Stern’s deranged antics.Historically, radio has been successful because of its ability to attract listeners and keep them tuning in for special broadcasts and new music.Satellite radio has adopted the format of everything that is wrong with commercial radio today—generic classic rock...
...export text from their books to other forums. Readers can use Insight to post content on personal Web sites, while HarperCollins’ widget can place content on social networking sites like MySpace.com. Has the publishing industry really sunk to level of MySpace? Will chunks of Ulysses soon co-exist with millions of pictures of sulky teenagers? Maybe the eventual triumph of MySpace was inevitable. Publishing houses have only held out thus far because reading is on some level a tactile experience: with e-texts, the words become essential and the physicality of the object disappears. The literature...