I’m in the neighborhood, so I naturally have to stop in for a minute to get fresh flour tortillas and some pan dulces. Their pan dulces are now pre-bagged as the result of the pandemic, so one doesn’t have the freedom of selection that they used to have.
Author: Chris Aldrich
I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history.
I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.
This is a curious way to collect books. I’m curious who’s behind the effort. Maybe a place to get rid of Little Free Library back stock?
Picking up a big pile of books on birds for some memory research.
I’m so infrequently in this neighborhood and most of the others have disappeared, so I’m indulging a bit while running errands.
I'm at a crossroads. Now that the book is out (And a HUGE thanks to everyone for their support, truly, I love you all) I wonder:
— Tyler D. Parry (@ProfTDParry) November 11, 2020
Is a personal website worth it? Maintenance? Cost? Does it enhance one's public profile?
Please respond and share. I'd love a wide array of opinions
I contribute to a wiki and a community that looks at some of the why and how questions which you might appreciate.
There are also many academics and researchers who are in the space which may give you some examples. Some are talking about the space under the moniker of A Domain of One’s Own or the hashtag #DoOO. The project name is a direct reference to Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) in which she writes:
“A woman must have money, and a room of her own, if she is to write fiction.”
If you want to immerse yourself, we’re having a free online conference this weekend that will help you explore the idea and even begin starting down the road if you like. In fact, the conference is hosted BarCamp-style, so I heartily recommend you attend and suggest your exact question as a session for discussion and brainstorming! If you’d like there are a bunch of volunteers that can help you get something started on the second day.
Personally, I really love WordPress.org infrastructure which I recommend running on Reclaim Hosting (they focus on universities, colleges, and academics) which will get you up and running with a domain name (usually about $10/year depending on what you choose) and hosting for $30/year. They have excellent support and you’ll find some of the smartest and most ethical technologists in academia in their fora. I use my own website as a research notebook cum commonplace book.
I’ve got some time between now and the end of the year if you need some volunteer technical help, I can assist you in getting over some of the technical hurdle to get something up and running and using it if you like.
Our Mid-Century Bed is a retro-inspired piece that's built to last. Made in a Fair Trade Certified™ facility, its sturdy frame is made from kiln-dried, sustainably sourced wood and covered in water-based finishes.
The new bed frame has arrived! Christmas has come early.
Sturdy storage for your laundry. The durable frame of our Modern Weave Basket is covered in tightly handwoven rattan peel and stained in a natural tea finish for a textural effect. 14.75"sq. x 25"h. Handwoven
Some new home furnishings arriving today.
Wednesday on the NewsHour, President Trump makes his first public appearance since losing reelection to Joe Biden -- and still refuses to concede. Plus: Sen. Bernie Sanders on Democratic politics, Republicans divided over Trump’s false claims, struggling essential workers in California, India’s pandemic economy, a blow for democracy in Hong Kong and a Gen Z artist bringing back the blues.
Forgot my mask somehow, so hanging out outside the walls.
A lot of our students are not from Wales, so we wanted to do something fun to promote the Welsh Language and culture to them.
A fun short series of words with a bit of useful culture thrown in.
Directed by Gareth Bryn. With Richard Harrington, Mali Harries, Alex Harries, Hannah Daniel. A minister has been killed. Mathias and Rhys investigate his life and violent death. DS Owens leads an investigation into the attack on Mathias and his home as he struggles to keep his emotions under control. Prosser faces an old rival.
Tuesday on the NewsHour, President-elect Joe Biden assures Americans that his transition team is moving forward despite President Trump’s unfounded claims of vote fraud. Plus: The Supreme Court considers the Affordable Care Act, Biden’s health care outlook, presidential transitions, more shocking revelations about the Catholic Church, the death of Saeb Erekat and moving toward American unity.
American Grace is "perhaps the most sweeping look yet at contemporary American religion. It lays out the broad trends of the past fifty years, assesses their sociological causes, and then does a bit of fortune-telling" (The Washington Post).
Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse, and remarkably tolerant. In recent decades, however, the nation's religious landscape has undergone several seismic shocks. American Grace is an authoritative, fascinating examination of what precipitated these changes and the role that religion plays in contemporary American society. Although there is growing polarization between religious conservatives and secular liberals today, at the same time personal interfaith ties are strengthening. Interfaith marriage has increased, and religious identities have become more fluid. More people than ever are friendly with someone of a different faith or no faith at all. Putnam and Campbell show how this denser web of personal ties brings greater interfaith tolerance, despite the so-called culture wars.
Based on two of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America (and with a new epilogue based on a third survey), American Grace is an indispensable book about American religious life, essential for understanding our nation today.
An eminent political scientist's brilliant analysis of economic, social, and political trends over the past century demonstrating how we have gone from an individualistic "I" society to a more communitarian "We" society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger, more unified nation--from the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids.
Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism--Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times.
But we've been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However as the twentieth century opened, America became--slowly, unevenly, but steadily--more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in today's disarray.
In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an "I" society to a "We" society and then back again. He draws inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community. Engaging, revelatory, and timely, this is Putnam's most ambitious work yet, a fitting capstone to a brilliant career.