Once, over a decade ago, I dismayed a group of women friends who were discussing their aspirations for relationships and marriage partners by saying that what I wanted was to find someone I could more or less bear to live with and start a family with them. They assumed I was being flippant, and when [...]
Emmy Hennings, I could kiss you. With chaste and comradely enthusiasm.
On days when I am feeling kind towards myself I like to think that perhaps my close friendships with men, which I reckon beyond value, have something to do with an internal resistance that I have tried to cultivate to the dynamic of objectification.
Yes, exactly. [...]
List of think tanks in the United Kingdom
Of these, the Centre for Policy Studies has probably had the most profound (and malign) impact. Certainly such bodies can make a difference; the question is, how might one make a positive difference?
?When I think back to when I first started teaching A-level 15 years ago, I realize that my lessons were a great deal more creative and exploratory and, as a result, fostered more intelligent, original and crafted responses.
In recent years my lessons have consisted solely of exam practice: training pupils to answer the question. Of [...]
I don?t know what you got in your A-levels, if you happened to take any, but I got two As and a B (English, History and Music). I?m not telling you this because I expect you to give a flying toss, but because it partly explains why the news that one in ten of those [...]
All roads, howsoe’er they diverge, lead to Rome,
Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home - Ambrose Bierce
Thanks to Lawvere, the first thing I thought of on reading this was terminal objects (line 1) and elements (line 2).
This is the website of Dominic Fox, a writer, musician and working programmer living in Northampton in the UK.
The contents of the site are as follows:
The CTM Wiki, a user-authored resource for readers of the book Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, by Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi.