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What does the tide mean, and could it be trying to tell us something? Multimedia artist Signe Lidén reflects on both ancient and emerging knowledge across disciplines and cultures that understands the tide as more than just a mechanical phenomenon.
While recording sounds on the dunes of an island off Denmark, Lidén was surprised by the rapid rise in sea level without being able to see the change from moment to moment. She has since devoted herself to studying the tide, recording an entire tidal zone using a 28-metre canvas as a microphone, and noticing the different sense of time she gets through close and extended listening. Could a deeper connection to the tide offer new ways of sensing and relating to the world around us, and help us to grasp the scale of environmental change that is happening in it?
The Philosophers Magazine
Debra Nails says that literary success eclipses Plato
The Philosopher King … the Academy … Atlantis … Plato’s Cave … Platonic Love … music of the spheres … the Socratic method … the Ladder of Love … Platonic Forms … Beauty is truth, truth beauty … Platonic Solids … Platonic dialectic … the Third Man … academic freedom … Plato’s Beard … footnotes to Plato …
Get your vaccinations. When you read about Plato’s teacher and his pupils, immunise yourself against authors who have imagined Plato through the lens of a modern schoolroom. When you read of Plato’s master and his disciples, inoculate yourself against authors with a different distorted lens: medieval monasteries with their religious adherents. John Dewey railed against “the artificial Plato constructed by unimaginative commentators” who regard Plato “as the original university professor
B.b.c. Radio. Easynews hour 9 o clock Good morning I m Sarah Wakefield the journalist and free schools campaigner Toby Young has resigned as a member of the new University s regulator he says he apologizes unreservedly for a series of controversial comments he made on social media in the past about women gay men and women and disabled people the conservative m.p. Robert Helfen who s chairman of the commons Education Committee says it s right that Toby on has decided to go I think he s done the honorable thing and decided to step down from the student regulator and I was so I understand that he s apologized for all his past comments and I think we should accept that and I hope that he carries on running the free schools that he has which he does very well and I m sure he ll continue to be an interesting journalist meanwhile to reason may will finalize her ministerial ratio full today with a shake up of junior roles following setbacks to her plans to reshape the cabinet Jeremy Hunt who