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Monday, November 17, 2014
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Friday, November 28, 2014
The Cretan Paradox
Morgan Meis in The Smart Set:
El Greco is confusing. He is one of the few universally acknowledged great artists of history who does not fit into any of the established art movements or categories. Given his time period (late 16th – early 17th centuries), his art should fit into the early Baroque. But it does not. One characteristic of all the artists we now call Baroque is a fidelity to the physical presence of bodies. Think of Caravaggio's light-splashed naturalism, the glow on the cheeks of the young boy-models that he dressed up in all manner of costumes. Or think of Rubens' fleshy obsession with the might and heft of the human form, the huge canvases like giant meat towers made of bodies laboring at some common task.
El Greco, by contrast, painted unnatural bodies. They aren't the sorts of bodies that exist in this, our world. El Greco's bodies are longer and stretchier than those we encounter in daily life. He portrayed the human form as you might see it in a vision or a mystical trance. He looked at painting, it would seem, in the same way that his contemporary — the great mystic Saint Theresa of Ávila — looked at prayer. They were both seeking spiritual ecstasy.
Except, there is no evidence that El Greco had any interest in spiritual visions or mystical ecstasies. Instead, he read boring tracts of Counter-Reformation theology and studied Renaissance art theory (we still have his library). El Greco was no Baroque painter, but he was no mystic either.
What to do with an artist who slips through every explanation?
More here.
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Entwined Fates: A Conversation with Margaret Levi
Over at Edge:
The thing that interests me has to do with how we evoke, from people, the ethical commitments that they have, or can be encouraged to have, that make it possible to have better government, that make it possible to produce collective goods, that make it possible to have a better society.
I'm a political scientist, political economist, so I think about this not so much from the perspective of moral reasoning, or philosophy, or psychology for that matter—though all those disciplines come into play in my thinking—but I think about it in terms of the institutional arrangements and contextual arrangements in which people find themselves. It is about those that evoke certain behaviors as opposed to other kinds of behaviors, and certain attitudes as opposed to other kinds of attitudes, that ultimately lead to actions. I'm ultimately interested not just in how the individual's mind works, but how individual minds work together to create an aggregate outcome.
To give you a much more concrete example of that: a recent book that I coauthored with John Ahlquist called, In the Interest of Others, looked at a variety of labor unions, because they are basically mini-governments, in order to understand why it was that some were getting people to act on various social justice commitments and others didn't even ask the question.
The first thing we had to think about was how much of this was self-selection. Had we just picked unions that picked people that then asked them to do what they were already willing to do? The unions that we looked at were three dockworker unions, two in the United States: the On the Waterfront Union on the East Coast, the ILA—the International Longshoremen's Association—and the more left-wing union, the ILWU—International Longshore and Warehouse Union—and a comparable union in Australia to the ILWU. We also looked at the Teamsters.
This gave us a set of organizations that, as it turns out, attracted virtually the same kind of people with the same heterogeneous mix of political attitudes and commitments to larger social justice issues. We started our investigation looking from the 1930s until the 1990s. In the early part of that story the only people who joined unions were those who needed the jobs that the unions represented. In the midst of the depression they weren't about to choose a union simply for political reasons.
More here.
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Paris Envy: Frank Gehry's Vuitton Foundation
Joseph Giovannini in the LA Review of Books (image The Fondation Louis Vuitton © Iwan Baan):
IN TODAY'S EFFICIENT, RATIONALIST, COST-CONSCIOUS architecture culture, squishy, unquantifiable qualities like enchantment are off the drafting table — exiled, beyond the grid, outside the design equation. But in museum design, ineffable qualities that mystify a museum are probably the single most important factor in signaling that the building brackets an out-of-the-ordinary precinct, one that promises special objects and a special experience inside. Architecture as warm visual bath introduces visitors into an immersive experience that preconditions the way they will see the Kiefers and the Pollocks beyond. Enchantment at the front door heightens anticipation. It opens pores.
There is, of course, the Calvinist alternative: museums as Minimalist white warehouses that offer a more blunt, frontal encounter with works of art that stand alone in cool, uninflected Newtonian space. But Frank Gehry, whose Louis Vuitton Foundation museum and cultural center just opened last month, subscribes instead to what might be called architectural Catholicism. Historically, the architects of cathedrals have always used the powers of a subjective and sometimes sumptuous architecture to condition worshippers to the messages delivered inside. By the time they kneel in a pew, the environment has already persuaded them through their awakened senses to believe.
Even by Gehry's elevated standards, no contemporary museum anywhere is more enchanting than the Louis Vuitton Foundation, inaugurated two weeks after the opening of a major retrospective of his work at the Pompidou Center. Equipped with as many glass sails as a three-master, all billowing cubistically in contradictory directions, the building lists to starboard while leaning fore, its prow sailing over a stepped cascade of lapping water. The museum seems to glide within the surrounding canopy of trees in the park, its upper sails piercing the tree line.
You are not on LSD. All sail and no boat, it's a vision, one that provoked a perfectly sober, gainfully employed psychologist seeing the building for the first time to respond: "I nearly wept in awe. Amazed by how soft, alive and enfolding it is."
More here.
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The Loneliest Genius
Leonard Mlodinow in Nautilus (illustration by Ralph Steadman):
Describing his life, shortly before his death, Newton put his contributions this way: "I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me."
One thing Newton never did do, actually, was play at the seashore. In fact, though he profited greatly from occasional interaction with scientists elsewhere in Britain and on the Continent—often by mail—he never left the vicinity of the small triangle connecting his birthplace, Woolsthorpe, his university, Cambridge, and his capital city, London. Nor did he seem to "play" in any sense of the word that most of us use. Newton's life did not include many friends, or family he felt close to, or even a single lover, for, at least until his later years, getting Newton to socialize was something like convincing cats to gather for a game of Scrabble. Perhaps most telling was a remark by a distant relative, Humphrey Newton, who served as his assistant for five years: he saw Newton laugh only once—when someone asked him why anyone would want to study Euclid.
Newton had a purely disinterested passion for understanding the world, not a drive to improve it to benefit humankind. He achieved much fame in his lifetime, but had no one to share it with. He achieved intellectual triumph, but never love. He received the highest of accolades and honors, but spent much of his time in intellectual quarrel. It would be nice to be able to say that this giant of intellect was an empathetic, agreeable man, but if he had any such tendencies he did a good job suppressing them and coming off as an arrogant misanthrope. He was the kind of man who, if you said it was a gray day, would say, "no, actually the sky is blue." Even more annoying, he was the kind who could prove it. Physicist Richard Feynman voiced the feelings of many a self-absorbed scientist when he wrote a book titled, What Do You Care What Other People Think? Newton never wrote a memoir, but if he had, he probably would have called it I Hope I Really Pissed You Off, or maybe, Don't Bother Me, You Ass.
Today we all reason like Newtonians. We speak of the force of a person's character, and the acceleration of the spread of a disease. We talk of physical and even mental inertia, and the momentum of a sports team. To think in such terms would have been unheard of before Newton; not to think in such terms is unheard of today. Even those who know nothing of Newton's laws have had their psyches steeped in his ideas. And so to study the work of Newton is to study our own roots.
More here.
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(NOT) Five African novels to read before you die
Aaron Bady in The New Inquiry:
University of Leeds professor Brendon Nicholls made a list of the "Five African Novels to Read Before You Die" yesterday, and it's a fine list, if your best-case scenario is that literate first-world types manage to read a handful of creative works from Africa in their lifetime. And let's be real, most Westerners are not even going to do that. So his list is fine, albeit extremely predictable:Achebe and Ngugi, of course, and let's add Ayi Kwei Armah's most canonical novel—because we need more than one West African male novelist from the 60's—and, hmm, oh, shoot, we need some women, so, okay, Tsitsi Dangerembga, obviously, and Bessie Head, I guess. But not the really hard Bessie Head novel, let's try the one that won't confuse people. DONE.
I'm giving Nicholls some good-natured sass, here (sorry dude), because, as someone who studies, reads, and teaches contemporary African literature, I'm just very bored with this list, which is a fine list, but it's a bit, I do't know, "Five White Writers You Should Read Before You Die: Shakespeare, Milton, Dostoyevsky, Austin, Woolf." Does the world need another suggestion that you read Things Fall Apart? It's a great novel, but everybody knows that, or if they don't, there's no hope for them anyway...
As we peer forward towards 2015, the literatures of the Africas are much more interesting than those five books and the canon-making principles they index. The old canons have become a critical crutch: Nicholls' list is a good place to start if you want to appreciate what has been going on for the last decade; anyone worth reading will probably have read at least most of these people, and if they haven't, the people they have read probably will have. Those writers are really helpful for appreciating what African writers are doing right now, and there's no getting away from that. They're also great writers...
For this reason, Nicholls list is a perfectly good place to start, as long as you don't want to read anything written in the last three decades. If you do want to read things that were written in the last thirty years, however—maybe, for example, because you want to read things that were written in your lifetime, and you were born, say, in 1979, like me—you are in luck! I have a list for you.
Read the rest here.
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PD James: She was fascinated by death all her life
Jake Kerridge in The Telegraph:
PD James had, to quote the title of what is probably her finest novel, A Taste for Death. Only last month she attended the launch party for CJ Sansom's latest Shardlake mystery. Picking up the hefty tome and noticing its size, she said: "This will see me out." It's the sort of morbid joke you would expect from someone who famously said that when she first heard the story of Humpty Dumpty, her initial response was to wonder: "Did he jump or was he pushed?" She was fascinated by death all her life. She brought that fascination to a genre, detective fiction, that had previously tended to ignore the subject. Yes, old-style detective fiction was littered with corpses, but they are principally there to provide a puzzle for the reader, and the realities of violent death are ignored.
James was one of the first writers to combine a pleasingly complicated Christie-esque mystery with the depth of literary fiction, and she was the first of these new-style crime writers to be taken to the reading public's heart. In her novel Devices and Desires(1989) she has a character reading an old-fashioned crime novel in which there is a "detective who, despite his uncertainties, would get there in the end because this was fiction; problems could be solved, evil overcome, justice vindicated, and death itself only a mystery which would be solved in the final chapter." The implication is clear: no such comforting falsehoods are to be expected at the end of a James novel. Everything will not be alright again once the murderer is caught. But millions of readers adored her uncompromising view of the evil lurking in ordinary life.
More here. (Note: I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. James in 1993 in Chicago and she was every bit the Grand Dame I had imagined her to be, I mourn her loss today.)
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the Rembrandt effect
T.J. Clark at The London Review of Books:
Let us call this the Rembrandt effect. It is an immensely powerful one, whose mechanics remain largely a mystery. It proved inimitable; or rather, the imitations seemed often to get the mechanics right, but mostly failed to deliver the effect. People in the 17th century appear to have wanted the effect and been willing to pay for it. Their dismal handbooks of art theory (and even more dreadful guides to the progress of the soul) had nothing germane to tell them about the picture of self on offer from the disreputable showman, with his 'whore' of a wife and his sordid bankruptcy, but there was apparently a thriving market for the kind of face-to-faceness he specialised in. A market for the unspeakable, we might say. Whether or not Rembrandt was bankrupt, his prices remained high. Italian noblemen and international bankers beat a way to his door – a German called Everhard Jabach, art dealer-cum-financier in Paris, seems to have been the first owner of Self-Portrait as Apostle Paul. Shades of the prison house clearly appealed.
What I now think was wrong in my previous approach to Rembrandt was my choice of terms. My essay assumed that the 'look' of self-portraiture was paramount, and extracted the look from the 'face'. Rembrandt did not. His pictures – not just his self-portraits, but the whole world he shows us, predicated as it is on faces – have to do centrally with the belonging of eyes and eyesight to the unlikely cluster of 'features' that cling to the lower front half of the skull, exposing the brain to the world. Exposure of this kind has dangers.
more here.
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why are novelists turning back to religion?
Philip Maughan at The New Statesman:
There is also a sense that, in recent years, novelists have formed part of a rearguard action in response to the New Atheist consensus that emerged after Richard Dawkins's God Delusion was published in 2006. The aggressive incuriosity and self-righteousness exhibited by the more militant end of the movement seemed to devalue the freedom of thought required to write a novel. "I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition," Dawkins surprised nobody by saying in 2013. One other thing that unites writers with believers is a sense that the truth can be story-shaped.
"It's extremely hard to convince a New Atheist polemicist that the standard way of understanding scripture is one that allows for it to be metaphorical," Spufford said. "It's the fundamentalists who claim the Bible is a handbook or a scientific treatise who are the marginal ones."
Deterministic ideas, whether theological, political or scientific, produce novels in which destinies are sewn up and moral questions tidily resolved. When Nick Hornby read Gilead, the second novel by the American writer Marilynne Robinson, he wrote in the Believer magazine: "For the first time I understood the point of Christianity – or at least, I understood how it might be used to assist thought." He is not the only one for whom that book has had the effect of a conversion (James Wood in the New Yorker was reduced to "a fond mumbling") – not a conversion to Christianity, of course, but to a new understanding of religion's place in human culture and intellectual activity.
more here.
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rebecca west visits america in 1924
Rebecca West in The New Republic:
Really, it is just like that. America is a continent with which one can have innumerable love-affairs. I am not monogamous myself in my passion for the Mississippi. There are times when I think with as insistent a longing for a place named Bingham, which is in the state of Utah. It is a mining-camp. One drives in one's automobile on noble roads planted with poplars over a green and fertile plain (it was desert till the Mormons irrigated it) to a canyon that drives a wedge into the foothills of the snow-peaked mountains. There is one long winding street of wooden houses, paintless, dilapidated; some with verandas on which men in broad hats sit in rocking chairs, spitting slowly and with an infinity of sagacity; some with plate glass windows, on which the washed-off word "saloon" still shows as a pathetic shadow, which are eating-houses of incredible bareness and dinginess, some others with plate-glass windows that show you men on high chairs with white sheets round them being shaved, and tin cans everywhere. Then at the end of the street one comes on a mountain of copper. Just that, a mountain of copper. Pyramid-shaped it is, and cut into regular terraces all the way from the apex to the base, where lies a pool of water emerald as Irish grass. It sounds the hardest thing in the world, and the terraces have as sharp an edge as a steel knife. Yet it seems a shape just taken for an instant by the ether. One feels as if one were standing in front of a breaking wave of a substance more like cloud-stuff than water, yet like the sea; for the whole hillside is luminously and transparently pale, and reticulated with mineral veins that are blue and green like sea water.
more here.
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Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'
From DelanceyPlace:
He adored openly and gave not a damn who saw. In the middle of parties, amid any gathering, he blurted encomiums of love and appreciation: 'Doesn't she look radiant?', he would say of Bacall. ('I remember feeling so happy,' she said of such eruptions.) Whatever his latest elations and fancies, they were always made grandly audible: 'No one prettier has ever been in my house!' 'You're beautiful tonight!' 'You look mah-velous!' (That was in fact exactly how he said it.) Public proclamation did not faze him; after all, he sang the same sentiments on records and stages-legendarily making every woman feel that he sang only to her.
"Thus, in 1965, to his still-secret girlfriend Mia Farrow, thirty years his junior: He popped his head out of the Palm Springs swimming pool, adjacent to the golf course. And there, dripping chlorine with house guests agape, he bellowed toward her 'I love you!' Recalled one witness, 'If anyone had been on the Tamarisk seventeenth green that second, they would have had the scoop of the year.' Before becoming at age twenty-one, the third Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow had shorn her locks, cropped them all but off, stirring a nationwide hubbub. (She was then an ingenue on television's Peyton Place, whose mailbags lumped with outrage de coiffure.) 'But,' she later wrote, 'there was no drama, no fight with Frank, he loved my hair the minute he saw it, so I kept it short for years.' Indeed, he promptly gave her a pale yellow Thunderbird-'to match your hair.' 'I'm proud of her', he announced to everyone, crowing of her beauty and her brains and her bangs. ...
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Thursday, November 27, 2014
the eternal battle between the history and the meaning of Thanksgiving rages on
Stefany Anne Golberg at The Smart Set:
For the last thirty years of his life — the first thirty years of 20th century America — the historical genre painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris devoted himself to capturing the history of America in paint. He called the result of this enormous task — a series of 78 scenes from the landing of Columbus to the start of World War I — The Pageant of a Nation. No one had ever seen America like this: All her heroes, great and small, presented in one complete and satisfying narrative — the most extensive series of American historical paintings by an individual artist before or since.
The paintings, wrote the authors of History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park, were "expertly executed reproductions of the past"; Ferris on par with the best historical genre painters of his time. They were meticulously researched and crafted. And yet, the authors wrote, Ferris' paintings said more about the era in which they were created than the events they portray. The paintings "formed a bridge between fact and fiction over which the viewers…were willing travelers." The Pageant of a Nation, wrote the authors, confused "verity with verisimilitude."
In one of the most widely reproduced Ferris paintings, The First Thanksgiving, the characters are just as they exist in our Thanksgiving myth. The Pilgrims don the familiar tall hats and buckles. The Wampanoag wear feathered headdresses. The women smile. The Wampanoag are serious.
more here.
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The Retreat: choosing to spend Thanksgiving alone doesn't need to mean being lonely
Susan Harlan in The Morning News:
Last year, I opted out of Thanksgiving. I had never failed to celebrate a major holiday before. When I used to live in New York City, I was accustomed to spending Thanksgivings with friends and their families as my own family was far away in California. This usually involved waiting amongst crowds in Penn Station and then taking the train out to New Jersey. Now that I live in a small city in North Carolina, I receive generous offers of holiday festivity that usually involve large quantities of bourbon. But last year, I felt the need to be elsewhere.
So I set off.
This was not my first retreat, as I had started to call my weekend getaways. Since the beginning of the school year, I had been taking long drives over the weekends get to know North Carolina better, but also because I found myself restless at home. I didn't necessarily have to go anywhere in particular; I just liked to drive along two-lane highways, past small-town cemeteries, BBQ joints, and rummage stores. "What are you up to this weekend?" friends would ask. "Going on a retreat," I would reply. I found old lodges, log cabins, inns, and motels in the mountains. I brought my dog Millie, lots of books, a notebook. A flashlight and bug spray. Some groceries. Red wine. Blue rubber rain boots and several good sweaters that I left in the car.
"In the mountains, there you feel free." So says the first speaker in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, which was among the books I brought with me, along with Dylan Thomas and Walt Whitman, Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, and M.F.K. Fisher's As They Were. These books were my supplies. And in the evenings, in the mountains, I did feel free, even if I knew I was not. One afternoon in late October, I sat on a bench on a sloping hillside and watched the wind blow red and yellow leaves off the trees in the distance, a declaration of the end of fall. I liked to rent cabins in the woods, and some people asked if I was scared of being murdered in one of these isolated places. Sometimes they were joking, but sometimes they weren't. They genuinely found the idea terrifying. Before I went away for Thanksgiving, I showed a friend a picture of the cabin I had rented. She gasped.
"That looks like it should be in a horror film," she said.
More here.
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where "race blind" means "no black and Hispanic kids"
Freddie deBoer over on his blog:
This is a question that people like Andrew absolutely have to answer if they want to grapple with this issue in an honest way: are you comfortable with a university system with incredibly low percentages of black and Hispanic students? With percentages of black and Hispanic students that are far lower than their averages in the population? That's what you're actually advocating for when you call for an end to affirmative action. We know that. We don't have to guess. Andrew spills a lot of ink weeping for a plaintiff who won't be able to go to Harvard. For her, the alternative was likely… going to Cornell, or Brown, or Dartmouth. (The horror! The horror!) For students like those in the UC system, the demise of race-based affirmative action can be the difference between attending a 4-year university or not at all. And if you oppose affirmative action then what, exactly, is the alternative for solving our enormous race-based economic and social inequalities? The self-same people who oppose affirmative action are the ones who oppose redistributive social programs! What makes this all so infuriating is that going to college and getting an education is exactly the way that conservatives say they want underrepresented minorities to get ahead. It's the work hard, fly right, bootstraps vision of racial justice. I have no doubt that Andrew earnestly wants to end the massive gaps in quality of life between the races in contemporary American life. But what's his plan? If "no" to reparations and "no" to affirmative action, 50 years after the heyday of the Civil Rights movement, how exactly do we get to racial economic equality?...
This whole debate depends on a flatly bogus notion of what college is, or what our country is. There is no such thing as meritocracy. There has never been anything resembling meritocracy. Not in colleges and not in our economy writ large. Anyone even remotely familiar with the history of our higher education system is aware that the system began as an explicit method for perpetuating received advantage. The notion of merit only began to creep in when America's vast inequalities became too glaring to ignore. Andrew mentions the legacy of anti-Semitism in higher education and equates the current standing of Asian Americans to the past standing of Jews in that context. That's a ludicrous comparison; our elite colleges were involved in an open and direct conspiracy to exclude Jewish students at all costs, whereas Asian American students attend US colleges far out of proportion with their overall percentage of our society. But he might stop and think about what that legacy actually tells us about our college system. No honest person with a minimum amount of understanding of our system would ever conclude that it has ever been anything resembling a meritocracy. Affirmative action has been one of the only genuine attempts to forcibly reduce the inherent inequality of our entire system. In its place, opponents propose… nothing.
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critique and the genesis of modernity
Critique expresses the possibility that everything could have been different. By doing so, critique puts things and the order of things in a state of crisis – institutions, meanings, relationships, mental and cultural dispositions. Realities emerge as possibilities, possibilities that have materialised. In other words, critique is an expression of the equal importance of the possible and the real. InThe Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil writes that "the sense of possibility" exists alongside "the sense of reality" and that "possible realities", not "real possibilities", are what is really interesting.[1]
It has been said that critique is a genuinely modern disposition, just as crisis is a genuinely modern societal and mental state. The urban sociologist Robert Ezra Park wrote that the city – the ultimate manifestation of modernity, both with regards to social order and mentality – was in, or even constituted, "a permanent state of crisis".[2]
Critique and crisis are central categories in any understanding of the modern culture. The concepts have a common etymological origin. They describe a state where nothing is yet determined but is soon to be; a state all about decisions, distinctions and discernment. The Greek word krínein meant both "subjective critique" and "objective crisis". The concepts achieve their real significance and are filled with opportunities and potential during the modern age, from the Renaissance and Reformation up to the present.
more here.
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How to Engineer the Optimally Delicious Thanksgiving Plate
Mrgan Garber in The Atlantic:
There may be an art to preparing Thanksgiving dinner, but there is an art, as well, to putting that dinner on a plate. The stakes are high: Get a little pour-happy at the moment of truth, and your turkey-to-gravy ratio gets completely upended; arrange your selections poorly, and suddenly your brussels sprouts are infiltrating your stuffing and potatoes. And then there's the cranberry sauce! Even a tiny bit of the stuff, misplaced, can turn an otherwise perfectly assembled plate into a mess of tangy hot-pink. If you, like me, have known the plight of the mis-proportioned meal, help is here. I asked Dan Pashman—author of the book Eat More Better, leader of the podcast The Sporkful, and general expert in the field of food consumption—for help engineering the optimal Thanksgiving plate. Here's his advice:
1. Use Your Mashed Potatoes as Construction Materials
Mashed potatoes, Pashman says, are "the structural backbone" of the Thanksgiving plate: "They're flexible, they're structurally sound, they're delicious, and they go well with most other things." Everyone knows the myriad benefits of the mashed potato moat, the depression that allows your potatoes to become a lake-like storage vessel for your gravy; Pashman advises taking that basic structure and running with it. You can use potatoes, Pashman points out, "to cordon off other areas of your plate," creating divisions that keep each food item in its place.
More here.
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Inside the World's Largest Islamist Group
A reputation established over eight decades collapsed in less than eight months. Islamism, an ideology that carved its name from Islam, had always been synonymous with it in the minds of many. The Egyptian Muslim Brothers, who had invented and embodied this ideology since 1928, were perceived as fervent believers who went beyond practicing religion to promoting and defending it. But a gathering rebellion against the country's first Brotherhood president changed all that.
On the eve of the 2013 popular uprising against Muhammad Morsi, Brothers organized preemptive sit-ins in several locations around the country. The biggest crowd camped around Cairo's Raba'a al-'Adawiya mosque. For forty days, unsuspecting Egyptians tuned in (some even strolled in) to witness for themselves what Brothers said and did. It was a rare opportunity to eavesdrop on this exceptionally discreet group. And what they saw and heard was quite different from what they were used to from the usually minted Brothers: political competitors were religiously condemned; images of Prophet Muhammad's epic battles were conjured; biblical stories, from David and Moses to Armageddon, were invoked; allegations that Archangel Gabriel prayed at the Islamist campsite were flaunted; and sacred visions were relayed on stage night after night. This was not the vocabulary Brothers typically employed. Almost overnight, many Egyptians panicked. Who were these strangers, they wondered?
more here.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Georg Diez in Der Spiegel via Edge:
Who is John Brockman? Even in New York, the world capital of people who know just about everybody, they are uncertain.
"Brockman, Brockman?" Shake of the head. "I don't know", says the reporter from the New Yorker. Says the colleague of the New York Review of Books. Says the young writer who cofounded the magazine n + 1.
In the literary milieu where he is ignored more than despised, John Brockman is about as well known as the first three digits of the number Pi.
"This crowd sees everything through the lenses of culture and politics," he says. "But an understanding of life, of the world, can only come through biology, through science."
Ebola, stem cells, brain research—Who needs the new David Foster Wallace, the new Philip Roth?
"The great questions of the world concern scientific news," says Brockman. "We are at the beginning of a revolution. And what we hear from the mainstream is: "Please make it go away."
And there you are—this is how it goes with John Brockman who doesn't like to waste time in the midst of the contradictions of the present. "Come, let's start," he says in a good mood and puts a recording device on his desk. "I'm turning it on, you don't mind?"
He is charming, without hiding his own interests. He is proud of his life, his intelligence, without that he would have to apologize for it. He is a key figure of the late 20th and early 21st century, the éminence grise and major source of inspiration for the globally dominant culture, which he himself named as the "third culture".
It is not Brockman, but his authors, who are well-known: Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, Daniel Kahneman. Physicists, neuroscientists, geneticists, evolutionary biologists, fixed stars of the science age, superstars of nonfiction bestseller lists, the reason for Brockman's financial success and good mood.
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Today, all you need to carve the turkey is an electric knife. In the 1600s, you needed a serious education
Heather Hess in The Smart Set:
Pity the turkey. Capons are sauced, cranes are lifted, partridges are allayed, geese arereared. Turkeys are, to use the proper historical carving vocabulary, simply cut up. The ritual carving of the turkey is one of the few vestiges of a past, glorious tradition that once wowed diners at spectacular feasts, and yet, the prosaic words for slicing up the turkey do not seem to match the grandeur of the deed.
Once, carving was held in high esteem. It was less about serving base bodily needs for nourishment and more concerned with spectacle and performance. Those who carved (and those who had carving done for them) were not concerned with where their next meal was coming from. It was a demonstration of power: the ability to muster a bountiful feast and an exhibition of control of the body (both that of the carver and of the animal carcass to be consumed). In full view of the diners assembled at the table, the carver hoisted the bird aloft with one hand, while wielding a razor-sharp knife in the other. Slices from the cooked carcass floated down to the plate.
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Treating disease with fecal transplants
Emily Eakin in The New Yorker:
One morning last fall, Jon Ritter, an architectural historian living in Greenwich Village, woke to find an e-mail from a neighbor, who had an unusual request. "Hi Jon, This is Tom Gravel, from Apt. 4N," the e-mail began. "I wanted to check in and see if you may be open to helping me with a health condition." Gravel, a project manager for a land-conservation group, explained that he had Crohn's disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation of the intestinal tract along with unpredictable, often incapacitating episodes of abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. His doctor had prescribed a succession of increasingly powerful drugs, none of which had helped. But recently Gravel had experimented with a novel therapy that, though distasteful to contemplate, seemed to relieve his symptoms: fecal transplantation, in which stool from a healthy person is transferred to the colon of someone who is sick. He hoped to enlist Ritter as a stool donor.
"I realize this is really out there," Gravel wrote. "But I think you and your family are the nicest people in our building, and I thought I might start with lucky you."
Crohn's disease affects as many as seven hundred thousand Americans, but, like other autoimmune disorders, it remains poorly understood and is considered incurable.
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Arundhati Roy: goddess of big ideas
Andrew Anthony in The Guardian:
Like India and Walt Whitman, Arundhati Roy contains multitudes. She is, however, far from large. Small, delicately boned, a beguiling mixture of piercing dark eyes and bright easy smile, she is a warm presence. She turns 53 tomorrow and the grey tint to her curls lends depth to a still strikingly youthful face. Looking at her, it's not hard to detect the author of the richly empathetic The God of Small Things, her debut, Booker-prize winning novel about family life in Kerala, that John Updike described as a "massive interlocking structure of fine, intensely felt details".
That was 17 years ago and photos from that period show a captivating figure, at once shy and fiercely proud, wary and utterly self-possessed. The book was a huge international hit and the publishing world readied itself to cash in on a phenomenal new talent, galvanised by the fact that so photogenic an author would be a dream to market.
But the follow-up novel didn't arrive. Instead Roy directed her considerable energies towards political activism, most especially in India where, despite her success, she has remained. It was a path that has led her to express solidarity with groups – such as Kashmiri separatists and Maoist guerrillas – that are seen by many Indians, with some reason, as terrorists. As a result Roy has become a controversial figure, an outspoken heroine in certain radical quarters, but loathed by large sections of Indian society, not least Hindu nationalists.
She has also become a prolific essayist and polemicist.
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Our Cats, Ourselves
Razib Khan in The New York Times:
IT'S commonplace to call our cats "pets." But anyone sharing a cat's household can tell you that, much as we might like to choose when they eat in the morning, or when they come inside for the night, cats are only partly domesticated. The likely ancestors of the domestic dog date from more than 30,000 years ago. But domestic cats' forebears join us in the skeletal record only about 9,500 years ago. This difference fits our intuition about their comparative degrees of domestication: Dogs want to be "man's best friend"; cats, not so much. Fossils are handy snapshots of the past, but a genomic sequence is a time machine, enabling scientists to run evolutionary history backward. The initial sequence of the domestic cat was completed in 2007, but a recent study to which I contributed compared the genomes of the domestic cat and the wildcat (Felis silvestris) and sheds new light on the last 10,000 years of feline adaptations. Domestic cats are not just wildcats that tolerate humans in exchange for regular meals. They have smaller skulls in relation to their bodies compared with wildcats, and are known to congregate in colonies. But in comparison with dogs, cats have a narrower range of variation in size and form.
Wesley C. Warren, an author of the study, notes that domestic cats have excellent hunting skills, like their wild ancestors. This, too, supports the notion that cats are only semi-domesticated. Comparing the genomes of the wildcat and the domestic cat added much to what we had known. Michael J. Montague, the lead author, told me he'd anticipated that the two genomes would be very similar, but our study found a specific set of differences in genes involved in neuron development. This brain adaptation may explain why domestic cats are docile.
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Geo-engineering: Climate fixes 'could harm billions'
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Schemes to tackle climate change could prove disastrous for billions of people, but might be required for the good of the planet, scientists say. That is the conclusion of a new set of studies into what's become known as geo-engineering. This is the so far unproven science of intervening in the climate to bring down temperatures. These projects work by, for example, shading the Earth from the Sun or soaking up carbon dioxide. Ideas include aircraft spraying out sulphur particles at high altitude to mimic the cooling effect of volcanoes or using artificial "trees" to absorb CO2. Long regarded as the most bizarre of all solutions for global warming, ideas for geo-engineering have come in for more scrutiny in recent years as international efforts to limit carbon emissions have failed.
Now three combined research projects, led by teams from the universities of Leeds, Bristol and Oxford, have explored the implications in more detail. The central conclusion, according to Dr Matt Watson of Bristol University, is that the issues surrounding geo-engineering - how it might work, the effects it might have and the potential downsides - are "really really to doing nothing, to business-as-usual leading us to a world with a 4C rise." The studies used computer models to simulate the possible implications of different technologies - with a major focus on ideas for making the deserts, seas and clouds more reflective so that incoming solar radiation does not reach the surface. One simulation imagined sea-going vessels spraying dense plumes of particles into the air to try to alter the clouds. But the model found that this would be far less effective than once thought. Another explored the option of injecting sulphate aerosols into the air above the Arctic in an effort to reverse the decline of sea-ice. A key finding was that none of the simulations managed to keep the world's temperature at the level experienced between 1986-2005 - suggesting that any effort would have to be maintained for years.
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3QD Philosophy Prize Semifinalists 2014
The voting round of our philosophy prize (details here) is over. Thanks to the nominators and the voters for participating.
So here they are, the top 20, in descending order from the most voted-for:
Imperfect Cognitions: Sadder but Wiser? Interview with Jennifer Radden
Absolute Irony: Nāgārjuna, Nietzsche, and Rorty's Strange Looping Trick
A Wondering Jew: The Sound of Silence
The Philosopher's Beard: The Case for Ethical Warning Labels on Animal Products
A Philosopher's Take: Moral Resposibility and Volunteer Soldiers
A Bag of Raisins: An Excerpt from Plato's "Philosopher"
- Angela Roothaan: (Auto)biography and Derrida II (finished reading)
Elisa Freschi: Veṅkaṭanātha's contribution to Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta
Imperfect Cognitions: Epistemic Injustice and Illness
Psychiatric Ethics: Anosognosia and Epistemic Innocence: Lisa Bortolotti
Proof I Never Want To Be President (Of Anything): Work Friends
Vihvelin: How Not to Think About Free Will
Huffington Post: Muslims: WWJD (What Would Jefferson Do?)
3 Quarks Daily: The Sense of Self: A Conversation
Flickers of Freedom: The Case for Libertarian Compatibilism
Indian Philosophy Blog: On the possibility and nature of neurophilosophical study of Indic traditions
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Wednesday Poem
Eyes open in the womb. The struggle arrives to turn darkness into light.
Dangling on the wings of
the Phoenix. The creative process begins to turn ugly. Vandalizing and robbing
graves of
child prodigies turning into serious discussions of Mass Murder and the
therapeutic value of
saturday morning shopping sprees. The betrayal of genius is burning at the
stake. The spider
descends. The violence is always there. The web embraces us all. More
insidious than
drugs. More pleasurable than sex. Slightly entangled. Slightly confused. That
criminal element awakens you to the terror and lonliness of running into the
silent pain of
someone else looking to you for answers. Glamorous and well financed pools
of blood
profiling on neighborhood corners while smiling at and tempting the boldest
gangsta rap.
The wealth we squandered on poor excuse and starving lines of poetry
inspired by the
tenderness of your smile healed me, cleansed me of my indifference to the
Holy Scriptures
should have told us something about being chidren of God in all this Madness,
against all
these odds of too intense and too delicate to be real lovers in real times. The
wind, the water,
the waves so natural in our hands. Falling on notes and images forever
caressing the Full
Moon and laughter too strong to be forgotten on opening nights and wanting
to be a big hit.
Run... Run... Run... to the birth, to the growth, to the experience of harmony so
wise and
peaceful desires to go back to the beginning and try to be good to yourself and
others... are
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Over 7.5 million phone accounts will be cut off if their SIM cards are not registered by next week, says Ghana's National Communications Authority (NCA).
In line with adoption of the Subscribers Identification Module Regulations, 2011(L.I. 2006), the NCA will instruct operators to switch off access to all SIMs that have not been registered by 3 March.
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Botswana streets to come under surveillanceSelected streets in both big and small cities as well as villages will be under the permanent glare of video surveillance according to recent reports. Read More
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African, Norwegian leaders discuss accelerated infrastructure developmentMore than 400 African and Norwegian leaders, including 30 ambassadors from Norway and Africa, discussed how to accelerate African infrastructure through Norwegian-African work, trade and growth at the Norwegian-African Business Summit in Oslo. Read More
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The number of unique mobile subscribers in Sub-Saharan Africa will pass the half billion mark in 2020, says a new GSMA report.
IN DEPTHAfrica lags on digital migration
Only three African countries have so far completed the digital migration process, and serious issues are hampering the migration in other nations.
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My latest column for Kaiser Health News: Are you better off with Medicaid than if you had no insurance at all? The answer seems like a no-brainer: Of course you are. But, for the last few months, a cadre of conservative writers and intellectuals has argued that the program doesn't actually help beneficiaries and may actually hurt them. To prove their point, they've cited a handful of studies in which Medicaid recipients ended up in worse health than people with no coverage whatsoever.
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When Christine Lagarde was named the new IMF managing director last Tuesday, the announcement came as little surprise to many of those who had been paying attention to the selection process. Lagarde had long been considered the front-runner in the race to replace the embattled Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who, of course, stepped down in May following accusations of sexual assault.
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June 09, 2011
On March 29, 1989, at a time when many of his fellow first-year law students were beginning to prepare for the spring semester's looming examinations, Barack Obama paid a visit to the office of eminent constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe. Obama had not dropped by to brush up for a test. In fact, he had yet even to enroll in an introductory constitutional law course, a gratification Harvard Law School denies its students until the second year of study. Obama's call was purely extracurricular: He wanted to discuss Tribe's academic writings.
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On January 22, the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, I attended a summit called We the Corporations v. We the People, sponsored by the Coffee Party, a network of liberals, leftists and progressives. The summit was designed to rally support for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United by declaring that corporations are not entitled to the constitutional protections of natural persons.
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April 07, 2011
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April 05, 2011
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EU leaders are arguing over the money needed for long-term projects. Everyone wants stable energy delivery, reliable transportation and high-speed Internet, but who should pay?
There are bound to be a lot of people with something to say when it comes to taking in and handing out about 1 trillion euros ($1.35 trillion).
The initial draft of the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2014 to 2020 - the document that regulates the EU's budget - is proposed by the European Commission. The draft lists expenditures including agriculture, regional support and employment.
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"In China, 36 million households got a connection to fast broadband last year," Heath said. "That's more than all the new connections that we developed in all of Europe."
The CEF permits national governments to connect EU citizens to the Internet on inexpensive financial terms.
"We are talking about loans that are backed by the European Investment Bank, so any money the governments put up to this facility they will get back with interest in the long term," Heath added. "It's not a gift or a blank check, it's actually something that will come back to taxpayers as well as delivering an essential service to people who don't have it now."
Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, who would also like to finance projects with money from the CEF, is currently working on how to spend the funds - despite the budget not yet being approved. Waiting until the money is actually there before choosing which projects to fund would mean putting everything on hold until 2015. By the end of 2013 the Energy Commission plans to have a list of projects it expects to be approved, so that it can co-sponsor them with the CEF from 2014 on.
Some 9.1 billion euros were allotted to the energy sector in the EU Commission's budget proposal, but exactly how much it receives - along with all the other sections of the EU - will depend on negotiations at the EU summit.
The European Council, the body made up of heads of state and government from the EU's 27 member countries, has to discuss the Commission's budget and either change or approve it. Approval from the European Parliament is also required. An initial attempt to pass the financial framework failed in 2012 when the Council could not find a compromise. So-called net payers, the countries that pay more into the EU's coffers than they receive from them, found the Commission's proposal too expensive.
Who pays what?
The EU's budget is financed from several pots, including taxes raised on behalf of the EU, such as customs on goods brought into the bloc, and a portion of each country's value-added tax. But most of what the EU spends is provided by contributions from member states and based on a percentage of gross national income.
While often referred to as the EU's seven-year budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework is not exactly what the bloc spends each year. Instead, it determines limits on how much sections of the EU are annually allowed to pay out. The framework was created to provide secure funding for long-term projects, such as those dealing with energy and transportation.
Scientists also need to know how much money they can expect to receive for their research, Heath said, adding that's how they know "they can take the risks that they need to take to do the best research so that they can have confidence that they are going to be able to complete their work."
Research pays off in future
He said the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 costs more than 80 billion euros and is worth every cent. It's only through programs like these, Heath said, that researchers in Europe can keep up with their international competition.
Heath said two recent developments showed the importance of funding security for researchers.
"One is an amazing material called grapheme, which is the lightest and strongest material that man has ever known, and another one has to do with how we simulate the human brain in order to treat lots of diseases," he said. "That's the work that is put at risk if we do not go through with funding for these long term projects."
Heath added that it would be short-sighted to only look at such projects as expenditures. "The message I would say to countries like the UK and Germany is that you actually get more than you put in to the research budget," he said. "To put less money in simply means that you are going to get less money back and that does not seem very sensible to me."
What to cut?
Budget negotiations, however, are not just about who pays in, but where the money goes. Agriculture and rural development are traditionally the largest items in the EU's budget, costing more than 380 billion. France is expected to defend the agriculture budget, while southern European nations will negotiate to keep the regional support funds intact.
Despite the tough negotiations expected, observers have said they expect the framework for the EU's budgets to be set by the end of the EU summit which starts on Thursday.
"There will be a lot of struggling, there is no doubt, but in the end there will also be an agreement," predicted Janis Emmanouilidis of the Brussels-based think tank European Policy Center.
A revolutionary new material called graphene and the world's biggest brain simulator have been awarded 2 billion euros in research funding. But the details are far from straight forward. (05.02.2013)
What can the EU do to save itself? It's a question that obsessed well-known Austrian author Robert Menasse - to the point that he actually moved to Brussels to find out. (05.02.2013)
The Dutch government says the week-long operation to recover wreckage from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is complete. Continued fighting around the broad debris field had delayed the operation.
The Italian coast guard and navy have intercepted hundreds of migrants from the central Mediterranean since Thursday. Meanwhile in Cyprus, authorities have rescued a large group of Syrian refugees heading for Europe.
German intelligence sources say some 60 Germans have died fighting for the jihadist group "Islamic State." Many others have returned from conflict zones in Syria and Iraq - and now pose a threat at home.


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November/December 2014
Academic Assistance for Undeclared Students Beyond First Year
Are you an undeclared student beyond first year that is unsure of what degree program to study? Have you applied to a degree program but were not accepted? Do you know what program you want to study but are not sure if you are on track for admission? If you answered yes to any of these questions there is help for you!
The Maintaining Student Relationships Program (MSRP) is coordinated through the Academic Advising Centre. Its main focus is to help support undeclared students who are beyond their first year of study with developing an academic path. Therefore, if you are undeclared and beyond first year and have any questions about your academic path, you can set up an appointment with the Academic Advising Centre by following these steps:
1. Login to my.mun.ca.
2. Under the Student Services tab, click My MUNLife.
3. Select the Academic Advising Centre tab.
4. Select: Book Appointment by Provider or Book Appointment by Type to view available appointment times.
5. Select an appointment time that is convenient for you.
In addition to the academic advice that is available to you via email, telephone and in person, there are also some very important links on the MSRP website.
Business Information Session
A representative from the Faculty of Business Administration will be available to answer any questions students have about business programs.
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
1:00 - 1:50 p.m.
Science Building, Room SN 4068
Important Dates - Fall 2014
Wednesday, Dec. 3 - Lectures end
Monday, Dec. 8 - Examinations begin
Wednesday, Dec. 17 - Examinations end
Monday, Dec. 22 - Final grades released at 5:00pm
Your personal exam schedule is available now through Memorial Self-Service.
Ensure that you know exactly where your exam is being written. If the location of your exam is not listed on the schedule, check with your instructor about the location before the last day of classes. Good luck in your exams!
Registration - Winter 2015
Registration for Winter 2015 began Monday, Nov. 3. The last day to add courses is Jan. 19, 2015. Should you require assistance, the Registrar's Office (A 2003) is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. You may also email firstname.lastname@example.com for assistance.
For the most current information on registration procedures, students are encouraged to access the registration information on the Office of the Registrar website.
Am I Registered for the Appropriate Courses?
To ensure you are registered for the appropriate courses you should review the regulations for the specific program you are interested in studying in the Memorial University Calendar. If you are still not sure if you are registered for the appropriate courses, you should set up an appointment with an academic advisor. In addition to dropping by our office in the Science Building (SN 4053), you can now schedule an appointment for a time that is convenient for you. Appointments are available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during our office hours of 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Counselling Centre Offers Academic Support
The primary function of the Counselling Centre is to help students develop their personal capabilities. This can be achieved through individualized and personal counselling as well as a wide range of group programs.
Career planning resources are offered to help students plan for the future. For more information on career development seminars, assessments, and other opportunities, visit the Career Planning Group website.
The Counselling Centre also offers drop-in study clinics, to assist students with managing academic responsibilities. Their drop-in clinic schedule is as follows:
Mondays, 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Tuesdays, 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Wednesdays, 12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Thursdays, 11:00 am - 11:50 pm
The Counselling Centre also has a variety of Study Skills Links that are quite helpful.
The University Counselling Centre is located on the 5th floor of the University Centre, room UC 5000. You can also call 709 864 8874.
Helpful Places for Students
Academic Advising Centre: SN 4053; www.mun.ca/advice
Answers: UC 3005; www.mun.ca/answers
Career Development and Experiential Learning: UC 4002; www.mun.ca/cdel/career
Cashier's Office: A 1023; www.mun.ca/finance/departments/cashier_office.php
Counselling Centre: UC 5011; www.mun.ca/counselling
Registrar's Office: A 2003; www.mun.ca/regoff
Each of the locations above provides support to students in a variety of ways. From providing academic advice and helping students choose courses, to helping students develop effective study skills. Each of these places exist to assist students and to help them with their studies at Memorial. Students should visit each location to see how the centres can help!
Help Centres
Many students rush to help centres on campus during the remaining weeks of the semester with the idea of doing extra work to prepare for exams. Great idea, but...
What is a Degree Audit?
A degree audit is a very helpful tool that will ensure you are completing the correct courses to meet graduation requirements and will also help you avoid any unexpected course surprises. You can apply for an audit when you have 20 or more courses completed.
To obtain an audit you must complete a Request for Degree Advice form and submit it to the Registrar's Office. You can pick-up the request forms at the Registrar's Office, A 2003, or print the form from the website.
Continuance and Re-admissions Regulations
To be eligible to continue your studies at Memorial you must meet the continuance and re-admission regulations at the end of each semester. The regulations apply to any student who is registered for at least nine credit hours on the last day for adding courses that semester; for the fall semester the last day to add courses was Sept. 18. If you were registered for three of more courses as of that date, you are subject to these regulations:
At the end of each semester, in order to be eligible for continuance at Memorial University, you are required to have either:
- obtained a current average of 50 per cent in the courses for which you were registered on the last day for dropping courses without academic prejudice;
obtained a cumulative average of at least 55 per cent on your entire undergraduate university academic career at Memorial.
Academic Warning
The first time you fail to meet the requirements outlined above, you will be given an academic warning. You will be permitted to return to university studies but will be subject to the continuance and re-admission regulations as outlined above.
If you have previously been given an academic warning and again fail to meet the above requirements, you will not be eligible for re-admission until after the following two semesters.
Dealing with Exam Anxiety
Exam time is very stressful. Here are some helpful hints that will help you deal effectively with that stress:
- While studying, try breathing more deeply than usual, or tensing and relaxing your muscles where you are experiencing tension
- Visualize success. Imagine yourself sitting calmly in the exam room, reading the paper thoroughly, noting exactly what the questions are asking you to do, planning your time, producing detailed, thoughtful answers and doing well.
- In the exam room, jot down important information (i.e. formulas) right at the start of the exam. Then keep calm by focusing on what you know and starting with the questions you understand.
The Counselling Centre offers assistance with dealing with test anxiety and other topics. Visit the Counselling Centre in The University Centre, 5th floor, room UC 5002.
Three Exams in 24 Hours
What happens if you have three exams within 24 hours?
If you are scheduled to write three final exams within a 24-hour period you MAY request to write a deferred exam. The second or middle exam in the 24-hour period is the one which must be deferred. You must make requests for deferrals directly to the department in question. For example, if your exams were scheduled as follows:
English 1080: Dec. 7 from 2 - 5 pm
Political Science 1010: Dec. 8 from 9 - 11 am
History 1012: Dec. 8 from 12 - 2 pm
You may request a deferral from Department of Political Science.
Career Development and Experiential Learning
Career Development and Exeriential Learning (CDEL) offers many different services such as: work and volunteer experience; career consultations; resume and cover letter critiques; as well as job search guidance.
ArtsWorks and ScienceM@tters focus on helping students discover how the skills and knowledge they're gathering while in pursuit of a bachelor of arts or science can be turned into tangible future employment or further study.
To search their job postings, book appointments and view the career calendar of events, please follow the steps below for general career planning:
Go to my.mun.ca and login;
Click "students" at the top of the page
Under the "Student Services" box, click "My MUNlife"
Click on CAREER
Career Development and Experiential Learning is located in the University Centre, UC 4002. You contact CDEL by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at 709 864 2033.


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