At the OUPBlog, Judith Bowman writes about a problem in online learning [http://blog.oup.com/2014/10/music-education-online-in-person/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=oupacademic&utm_campaign=oupblog] I had not even considered— > What is the human touch in online learning? How do you know if it’…
Another lovely, useful Jspanese word for which there is no translation. > Boketto, the act of gazing vacantly into the distance, without thinking. http://t.co/sT2WB3aybN — On Being (@Beingtweets) October 25, 2014 [https://twitter.com/Beingtweets/status/525986642465529856]…
> In a hyperactive world, "stillness is the deepest rebellion," says @DonnaDCruz [https://twitter.com/DonnaDCruz] #poptech [https://twitter.com/hashtag/poptech?src=hash] — Paola Antonelli (@curiousoctopus) October 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/curiousoctopus/status/525636918437220353]…
> Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. -Pico Iyer via BookMania [http://bookmania.me/post/100871618207/silence-is-something-more-than-just-a-pause-it-is]…
Parker Palmer, who spoke today at PopTech with Krista Tippett and Courtney Martin, shares these words of Thomas Merton [http://www.onbeing.org/blog/the-modern-violence-of-over-work/6943] at his blog— > "There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist...most easily succumbs: activism and over-work. The…
> Kahke, a Turkish spiced bread in the form of a ring: http://t.co/dkBzfDe0Ql — Out of Eden (@outofedenwalk) October 23, 2014 [https://twitter.com/outofedenwalk/status/525355235552665600] > "It lasts a year." Kahke, made with fermented chickpeas. Antakya, #Turkey. [https://instagram.com/p/tqAq_ttSrk/] A…
> What do Aristotle, Wordsworth, Dickens & Thoreau have in common? They walked. A lot. #ThrowbackThursday [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThrowbackThursday?src=hash] http://t.co/IIb85vTOhy — Fitbit (@fitbit) October 23, 2014 [https://twitter.com/fitbit/status/525329429707624448]…
Nietzsche via [Explore](http://explore.noodle.com/post/100077062433/a-century-and-a-half-before-our-modern-fetishism?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS)> “The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived — nor could it,…