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COMMENT: The Care and Feeding of Vinyl Records (part II of II)

The care associated with caring for real, tangible, touchable objects is significantly different than the care associated with caring for unreal, virtual, untouchable objects. That’s the thesis I tacked up on the proverbial castle door during part I. I used my high school experience of entering the environment of taking care of vinyl records and […]

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Announcing William Powers ASF Luncheon Talk & Follow-up RYOL Meet the Author

The FHL Foundation is excited to announce that we have partnered with the Association of Small Foundations (ASF) to bring author William Powers to Albuquerque to talk about his book Hamlet’s BlackBerry—A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age (2010, HarperCollins). Powers will be the keynote speaker for the first day of […]

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COMMENT: The Care and Feeding of Vinyl Records (part I of II)

Back when I was in junior high, I had an all-in-one Norelco stereo system. These systems were popular back in the late 1960s – early 70s. Each stereo cabinet would house a record player for playing vinyl records (either 45s or LPs, which spun at 33 1/3 rpms), an AM-FM radio, and a cassette player. […]

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Putting One’s “Transvaluation” House In Order

Over the weekend I enjoyed reading Mary Eberstadt’s 2012 book entitled Adam and Eve after the Pill—Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution. In many ways Adam and Eve after the Pill expands on themes Eberstadt delivers in her 2004 book entitled Home-alone America—The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes (a book […]

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COMMENT: Role of aircraft automation eyed in air crash – Yahoo! News

Role of aircraft automation eyed in air crash – Yahoo! News. JOAN LOWY 6 – San Francisco WASHINGTON (AP) — The crash landing of a South Korean airliner in San Francisco has revived concerns that airline pilots get so little opportunity these days to fly without the aid of sophisticated automation that their stick-and-rudder skills are […]

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