April 2013
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“Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.”
– Saul Bellow via Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality (p. 89)
March 2013
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January 2013
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December 2012
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“We have confused knowing more with knowing better. The exponential growth of...”
– Our War on Ourselves: Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth (p. 58) by Willem H. Vanderburg
November 2012
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“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
– Carl Jung
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“In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional...”
– Chris Hedges
(quoted by Ryan Holiday in Trust Me, I’m Lying - Confessions of a Media Manipulator p. 67)
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Art, science and wonder: My thoughts on Ottawa's...
Originally posted on Local Tourist Ottawa.
“The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.” – Nadine Wiper-Bergeron at TEDxUOttawa quoting theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson
A little less than a year ago, I stepped into the Pilot Lab at University of Ottawa and was immediately mesmerized by Andie Haltrich’s installation “The Space-Time Fabric”:(1)
In that unusual...
October 2012
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“It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.”
– Niels Bohr
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“[…] life mix is the mash-up of what you have on- and offline. Now, we ask...”
– Ch 8 Always On (p. 160)
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
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“In science, being stuck can be a sign that you are about to make a great leap...”
– 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks
“Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your...”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via artandsciencejournal)
“It is a simple task to make a subject complex, but a complex task to make it...”
– Meyer’s Law
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Opinion: Transparency in Science Publishing by... →
F1000 Research’s “publish first, peer review later” model with its recognition of the referees’ contributions is one of the latest efforts in improving transparency and eliminating delays in science publishing.
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Free Science, One Paper at a Time by David Dobbs →
On open science, ORCID and Mendeley. Better late than never…
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September 2012
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What Popular Culture is Telling Us About Libraries... →
“We should also safeguard our valuables, because you never know when there will be a zombie apocalypse.” :)
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“The big threat of photoshopification is not that we will believe documents and...”
– Brooke Gladstone, The Influencing Machine, p. 127
July 2012
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“I suppose when you get down to it, everything is always once in a lifetime. We...”
– Ch. 4 Site-Specificity vs. Pure Technique (p. 98)
The Most Human Human by Brian Christian
June 2012
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“In this world of abundance, knowledge is not a library but a playlist tuned to...”
– Ch 9 Building the New Infrastructure of Knowledge (p. 176)
Too Big To Know by David Weinberger
How Libraries are Reinventing Themselves for the... →
Many branches of these public institutions are dying from lack of funding—and reinventing themselves in surprising new ways
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“Welcome to the life of knowledge once it has been taken down from its shelf. It...”
– Ch 6 Long Form, Web Form (p. 110)
Too Big To Know by David Weinberger
December 2011
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Rules for the New Ways of Watching →
The inertia that has kept consumers from bolting from traditional content providers is beginning to erode.
As we “watch” all the ever-increasing contents, are we taking enough time to pause and reflect?
"practice the Internet"?!
In an article titled “Librarians’ Experiences of Introducing the Internet in the Public Library: A Study in Southern California” ca. 2005 by Ulla Arvidsson, I ran into the phrase “practice the Internet” when the author talks about the ongoing training for librarians. It’s amazing how our information landscape is changing in just a few short years!
November 2011
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“How do you know it flushes by itself?”
– Little brother inquiring his older brother’s world experience at a Vancouver International Airport’s washroom.
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