Pope Warns Church Against Closing in on Itself
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: courageous, disciple, dissect, reign, apostle, outskirt, papacy.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
How Guantanamo affects China: Our human rights hypocrisies
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: violator, committed, enshrine, irony, emigrate, perceive, appreciable, ambivalence, collectivist, individualism, subsidy.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Fight Clubs: On Napoleon Chagnon | The Nation
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: descendant, dwarf, unaffected, insinuate, partisan, discredit, muddle, censure, sanctimonious, expunge, encroach, irony, theocracy, archetype, vociferous, tangential, enamor.
Thought Experiment: Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain | Wired Science | Wired.com
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: sophisticated, futurist, papyrus, decree, seethe, modulate, rudimentary, peripatetic, sabotage, delusion, correlate.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Is Humbert Humbert Jewish?
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: disarm, outskirt, expectancy, indictment, novelist, cataclysm, deport.
Steven Poole – On algorithms
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: cranium, nebulous, augury, recidivism, arbiter, paraphrase, psychotherapy.
The Gervais Principle VI: Children of an Absent God
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: defiance, religiosity, bereft, absolution, committed, theism, atheism, metaphysics, betray, idealize, ardor, coup, legible, illegible, banal, pantheon, rebuff, predicate, humanize, bauble, inconsequential, dimly, inversion, contemptuous, indulgent, benevolence, cryptic.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
BR — Gillian Osborne: "A More Ordinary Poet"
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: poetics, underlie, latent, ephemeral, rearrange, putative, vampire, promiscuous, plenitude, deplete, epistle, enamor, diffuse, insurgent.
Reviewed: Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: demolish, irony, individualism, professed, postscript, deride.
Paul Bloom: The Case Against Empathy : The New Yorker
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: unfortunate, narrow-minded, captivate, empathetic, mutilate, dispassionate, ideological, statute, recidivism, ameliorate, prudence, stranger, betray, inundate, sophisticated.
The Spectacle of Disintegration
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: negate, temporal, supersede, aesthetic, stifle, feud, canny, coalesce, extol.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Fight Clubs: On Napoleon Chagnon
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: censure, nuance, discredit, reminiscent, beget, hideous, abduct.
Rome's Cassandra: On George Weigel
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: sanctity, statute, incursion, prelate, ostracize, rife, martyrdom, metaphysical, abjure, existential, modernity.
Closure at Kent State?
Reading Level: Expert. Vocab words: omission, lobby, accost, dirge, discredit, instigate, proliferate, buttress.
The Human Division
Reading Level: Advanced. Vocab words: intimation, fleet, verisimilitude, machination, sporadic, nexus, conceit, exemplify, heterogeneous.
The Ayatollah's Game Plan
Reading Level: Standard. Vocab words: fissure, precede, castigate, discredit, veneer, disqualify.