By Joshua Kim. Do you remember when our biggest campus tech worry was our students using our networks to download music and movies illegally. More...

Are we faking cultural literacy?

Anna Maria Tremonti, CBC | The Current, June 3, 2014

I listened to this interesting segment on CBC Radio this morning while receiving dental treatment. It featured Alexandra Samuel from Vision Critical, Theresa Moritz of the University of Toronto's Woodsworth College, and the Mozilla Foundation's web literacy lead Doug Belshaw. The discussion centred around the idea that there is some common core of cultural materials that make a person culturally literate - that is, educated well enough to understand the references in newspapers and magazines, a social Rosetta Stone, as it were. More...

Daniel C. Dennett: The De-Darwinizing of Cultural Change
Daniel C. Dennett, Edge, March 4, 2014

I don't agree with everything Daniel Dennett says, but what he says is never trivial (in the way, say, Jerry Fodor or David K. Lewis are trivial) - the postulates he offer require serious thought, because they are genuine possibilities, and not just semantical tricks. More...