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Our AI Moment, Unknown Unknowns and Unknown Knowns
I can't stop thinking about AI, the fast-coming disruptions, and our unwillingness to gain perspective in our next axial revolution
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Live Classes on Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Prepare for the Christmas season by doing a deep dive into the perennial classic
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Advent Comes Before Christmas
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On Being Literate
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Boiling Frogs
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Our cultural sense-makers are "AirSpacers" who prefer frictionless no-places to gritty, sticky, icky some-places
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"Let's Go to Hell": a Six-part live course on Dante's Inferno
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Manufactured Narratives
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On Being Literate
Auden's impossibly magnificent syllabus, Frankenstein's creature's induction through literature, and the humans we are fashioning without the story of…
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