Archive for November 13th, 2007

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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Hybris

Dr. B asked me to post this info, so here you go.
Within the third choral ode is the line “Hybris sires the tyrant…” There are two especially interesting observations to make about this line in the context of Oedipus and our class. The first observation is regarding the word “hybris”. The glossary […]

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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

More on Bees

From today’s New York Times. Life is not easy for male bees, it seems. I suspect that it was not much different for men prior to the advent of writing and literacy
Dr. B.
November 13, 2007
Basics
In Hollywood Hives, the Males Rule
By NATALIE ANGIER
In his new animated film, Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B. Benson, a wisecracking, […]

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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Magic thinking gets on our t-shirts…

Check out this t-shirt design: http://www.threadless.com/product/1040/Hero_Within#zoom

It’s a dragon (with teeth!), coming out of a tv/game console (digital!) with a little knight guy with his sword (penis) …ha. That’s all the symbolism I could make out of it. But it’s crazy, right?
-Kristi Thomas

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