Joshua Fost » Aphorisms http://joshuafost.com/blog Thoughts on (mostly) Science, Philosophy, and Education Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:51:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chickens http://joshuafost.com/blog/2012/02/08/chickens/ http://joshuafost.com/blog/2012/02/08/chickens/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:49:48 +0000 jwfost http://joshuafost.com/blog/2012/02/08/ “I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.” — Catherine Beckett

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]]> http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/07/21/bokononist-philosophy/feed/ 0 If you love something http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/06/10/if-you-love-something/ http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/06/10/if-you-love-something/#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:31:15 +0000 jwfost http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/06/10/ If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, then it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, it never was.

If you set your cat free and it doesn’t come back, then you have misunderstood cats.

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If you set your cat free and it doesn’t come back, then you have misunderstood cats.

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]]> http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/03/13/dualism/feed/ 0 Shannon tribute http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/02/24/shannon-tribute/ http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/02/24/shannon-tribute/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:04:16 +0000 jwfost http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/02/24/ An aphorism in honor of Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, who died ten years ago today: “The more surprising a phrase, the more it says.”

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]]> http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/02/14/scientific-discovery/feed/ 0 The education problem http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/01/30/the-education-problem/ http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/01/30/the-education-problem/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:20:51 +0000 jwfost http://joshuafost.com/blog/2011/01/30/ I’m not saying this is the whole truth–there are many serious difficulties facing educators–but I sense a mostly unspoken chain of reasoning that goes like this: The problem with higher education is K-12 education. The problem with K-12 education is parenting. The problem with parenting is popular culture, and the problem with popular culture is . . . → Read More: The education problem]]> I’m not saying this is the whole truth–there are many serious difficulties facing educators–but I sense a mostly unspoken chain of reasoning that goes like this: The problem with higher education is K-12 education. The problem with K-12 education is parenting. The problem with parenting is popular culture, and the problem with popular culture is that it’s not sufficiently educated.

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