"...it is a principal task of a successful modern university to teach people how to read [big, difficult, flawed, incredibly insightful, genius books]. Indeed, it might be said that one of the few key competencies we here at the university have to teach—our counterpart or the medieval triad of rhetoric, logic, grammar and then quadriad … Continue reading How to Read Big Books
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Ferming
Open Questions: Will agriculture by fundamentally transformed in the next decade? And if so, what are the likely health implications? We are on the cusp of the biggest economic transformation, of any kind, for 200 years. While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of … Continue reading Ferming
