Biblical news from Academia: Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” is not a true translation of the Hebrew. … She said she eventually concluded the Hebrew verb “bara”, which is used in the first [...]
“The most effective way to manage change is to create it.” —Peter Drucker I have been collecting quotes for my Leadership class, and this one in particular made me think about my own creative process—or really any process that I can’t do on autopilot. The above quotation is actually in respect to organizations (yawn), but [...]
The Tree of Knowledge is a goldmine of concepts and ideas. The most interesting parts are at the end—in discussions of society, communications and language. What biology shows us is that the uniqueness of being human lies exclusively in a social structural coupling that occurs through languaging, generating (a) the regularities proper to the human [...]
