Archive for May, 2008

university as creation of the future

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I was reading a post by Stanley Katz on the impending closure of the University of Florida’s philosophy department and saw that he’d written another article called “The Pathbreaking, Fractionalized, Uncertain World of Knowledge.” This article begins by quoting A.N. Whitehead: “The task of the university is the creation of the future, so far as [...]

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the temporary morgue at the university of chicago

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I was stunned the other day to discover that my campus has plans for a temporary morgue in case of emergency. They read as follows: The Hospital morgue has a limited capacity to store the deceased. If the Hospital is no longer able to accept the deceased they will contact the Chicago Department of Public [...]

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