5-6 October 2013 | 92 comments (92 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Living on the Planet (4.00 / 3)

There is a Da Vinci program at the University of Miami. I could see it might be justified were an institution to come into a sizable archive of Da Vinci material dating from the time and a large collection of secondary works on Da Vinci, but it just seems bizarre to me to have an entire department focused on one man, even if it is The Buddha, Jesus Christ or Mohammed. It too easily lends itself to hagiography.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Oct 5th, 2013 at 08:19:21 PM EST
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Re: Living on the Planet (4.00 / 2)

Academics can make careers out of writing papers about anything.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Oct 6th, 2013 at 04:10:22 AM EST
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Re: Living on the Planet (none / 0)

Academics are required by the system to make their careers out of writing papers about anything, the more obscure and specialized the better.

--fixed.

by asdf on Sun Oct 6th, 2013 at 11:59:56 AM EST
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Academics are required by the system to make their careers out of publishing drivel.

In the Neurozone, there can be only one.

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Oct 6th, 2013 at 02:10:24 PM EST
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