From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Phenomenology Kitten—Olfactory News

Click here for the "Celebrity Commentary" Resource Center—(all posts available) Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Celebrity Commentary" (coming soon) This is a "small" (小) post—click here for an explanation of Round and Square post lengths.
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On this day in Round and Square History 
7 October 2012—Kanji Steps to Mastery: Introduction (b)
7 October 2011—Spring and Autumn Roles: Japanese Characteristics
[a] Appearing to consciousness RF
Our attaintment of enlightenment is something like the reflection of the
moon in water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water cleft apart...
The whole moon and the whole sky find room enough in a single dewdrop...
                             —Dōgen, Conversations

If you have been reading these wonder posts, you might have missed a terrific column in the New York Times on Friday.
[b] Sensory language RF

T.M. Luhrman, a professor of anthropology at Stanford, engages the question of sensory perception and culture. Doesn't everyone hear, smell, and taste "the same?" Isn't that a pretty common assumption behind any claims to shared experience of a reasonably objective nature?

Um, well, no.

New York Times Cultural Senses


We'll chew on the implications in a few future posts. For the moment, though, I am going to chew on some delectable and savory fish innards (just moi and a few Norwegians).
[c] Getting to know you...RF
[Originally posted on September 7, 2014]

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