From my Deep Pocket, this week

I have a wonderfully/woefully stuffed Pocket App, that gets fatter and fatter as weeks pass. What to do, what to do? A visit to the dentist last week and I was informed that Deep Pockets are 'undesirable,' contrary to what the dictionary tells me about deep pockets symbolising 'abundant financial resources'. Here is an effort to put my deep pocket/s (app) to work! (If it all gets a spot overwhelming: try some Mental Floss ;).

Here are the articles that I am going to attend to in the next week. If anything tickles your fancy, I'll be glad. I might even work up a post about one or two of them. Perhaps we could 'conversate' in the comments or on email?

It's commencement season in the U.S. and it's impossible not to notice the humanities picking up the gauntlet and facing the seductions of Technology or at least saying, 'hang on a minute'. To humanize is one of the most important functions of the Humanities. For that time is needed; thought is needed. Humans are needed! (Apply within! ha!)

Here are the 7 links:

• Physics's pangolin
• The Humanities in Transition
• Richard Kearney on Imagination and Catharsis & Evil, Ethics and the Imagination
• Donald Kagan on Liberal Education
• Another defense of the Humanities from TNR
• Listened to a rather disappointing interview of Tom Sheehan on Entitled Opinions (one of my favourite podcasts) about Heidegger and Technology a week or so ago. All was not lost, however, as my interest in Hannah Arendt was reignited by the great host of the show, Robert Harrison. Also, Jason Goroncy, one of my most visited Antipodean bloggers is excited for the film. (Might be a while until it gets over here, alas).
• James Gleick's review of Lee Smolin's latest, entitled Time Regained.

Enjoy your reading homework.