The way to think about the iPhone in relation to higher ed is less as a single product but a new product category. This category, which includes Android/Google and maybe eventually the Windows 8 phones, equals smart phone plus an app ecosystem. 6 Ways the iPhone Changed Higher Ed | Inside Higher Ed
Nobody who engages in political argument, and who isn’t a moron, hasn’t had to recognize the fact that decent, honest, intelligent people can come to opposite conclusions on public issues. Jonathan Haidt: He Knows Why We Fight - WSJ.com
Time to check the settings; one of those recurrent FB tasks that everyone should do on a regular schedule. Checking Your Facebook Privacy (Again) - ProfHacker
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER is that no one to date has rivaled the Homeric epic’s extraordinary staying power—nearly three millennia now, and still going strong. Peter Green reviews the present field of translations and revisions. Homer Now
The fact is President Obama betrayed progressive Catholics who stuck their necks out for him. So very true, and the test of an honest progressive Catholic (e.g., Michael Sean Winters) vs. a partisan hack ( E. J. Dionne) is to recognize it. Marc Thiessen: Obama’s betrayal of progressive Catholics carries a price
Generally, political science does its best work when it begins with the perspectives of the statesman (or political leader) and the citizen and then goes on to refine and enlarge what’s seen about political life by those who are actually engaged in it. The attempt to impose a scientific perspective alien to the phenomena almost always leads us to see a lot less than is really there. Political "Science" and Its Forecasting Failures | Rightly Understood | Big Think
Good piece from Fr. Robert Barron looking back on the Council through Congar’s diary. Diary from Vatican II
A modern-day Good Will Hunting might gain his education through MIT’s online lectures rather than a Boston public library card, but the great mass of privileged 18-year-olds will keep heading off to college. Neither the University of Phoenix nor MIT’s online courses offer a replacement for the college experience that students are currently paying for. And competition does not equal disruption. David Karpf: UVA Board's Lazy Business Sense
Christians are, as the Koran says, “People of the Book”; in which case we might want to ask what will become of Christianity if “the book” is radically transformed or abandoned altogether. The New Atlantis » Christianity and the Future of the Book
many of the Bible-related archaeological claims made in recent years have been tainted with “exaggeration and speculation the likes of which haven’t been seen since pieces of the ‘true cross’ were found all across Europe in the Middle Ages.” Raiders of the Lost Relics