Category Archives: nonsense

Nonsense!

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Posted on May 4, 2011 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Over one month from my last post. Hmmm. It has been a hell of a month. I have been working day and night to put together a new Grant for the US Dept. of Education, which went out last Friday, … Continue reading →

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On Holy Marriage and the Sinful Apple

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Some guys protest for Apple’s decision to pull an “Anti-Gay” app from the App Store. The “Anti-Gay” app was actually a petition to sign a so-called “Manhattan Declaration” (here its website -have fun). Please, note and verify, that in the … Continue reading →

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Teachers’ Education

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Speed of Creativity reports a recent quote from US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: . . . Districts currently pay about $8 billion each year to teachers because they have masters’ degrees, even though there is little evidence teachers with … Continue reading →

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Humanistic Provocationz

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Antonio Vantaggiato

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. — Charles Darwin I was lately thinking of the importance of reading, being myself an avid reader: of both stories and essays, papers, … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s Vision of the future and Obama’s Nobel

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Antonio Vantaggiato

All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome rath outgrabe If I recall well, this is the first nonsensical verse from the Jabberwocky, Lewis Carrol‘s poem within Alice in Wonderland. All mimsy are today’s borogoves, too, in Microsoft‘s vision of … Continue reading →

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