"1981 16-mm film by Roberta Cantow. Full film at http://www.folkstreams.net/film,30... Shows the love/hate relationship that women have with the task of cleaning the family's clothes. As we see the clothes flapping in the wind and hear the voices - some proud, some angry, some wistful - we realize that doing laundry calls forth deep feelings about one's role in life."
- mkz
"I am the only woman that plays this instrument in Jinja. Some of them
are talking that maybe God wanted to create me like a boy. That's why
I play like that. When I started to play with them I used to fear. But
now I don't fear again. I'm free."
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"Bülent Ersoy nasıl dualardualar edip bir teravi kılıp uyumuş . . . sabah uyandığında hiç ama hiç 'benimsemediği' penisçiğini vajinalaşmış bulmuş GİBİ yapıyorsa- Doğuştan Dua Kadın ise yani- Bir de ufak tefek bir kadın olduğuna dair Nosyon Yırtılmasına sahip."
"All four of these positions have their adherents. I believe the wide popularity among philosophers and scientists of (a), the outlook of psychophysical reductionism, is due not only to the great prestige of the physical sciences but to the feeling that this is the best defense against the dreaded (d), the theistic interventionist outlook. But someone who finds (a) and (b) self-evidently false and (c) completely implausible need not accept (d), because a scientific understanding of nature need not be limited to a physical theory of the objective spatio-temporal order. It makes sense to seek an expanded form of understanding that includes the mental but that is still scientific — i.e. still a theory of the immanent order of nature. That seems to me the most likely solution."
- mkz
"Growing into Music is a film that explores how children in diverse cultures from different parts of the world acquire musical skills and knowledge. Shot on location between 2009-12, the film shows children learning and performing within some of the world’s most celebrated oral traditions" - http://growingintomusic.co.uk/the-gro...
- mkz
Ori PDF bulamamıştım, bi-iki hafta icinde memleketteyim, taratırım bi yerde olmadı. Selim başlarını çok severek okumuştum, devamına da şimdi döndüm tekrar. Aslında "çıkartılan on ders" falan gibi bi şeyler de olaymış keşke muhtelif deneyimler için (bu kitapta değil de, bir yerlerde--belki de vardir gerçi). Öbür kitabı da (hikayecilikli olanı) merak ettiydim.
- mkz
İki arkadaş (Mehmet ve Aslı) tohumdan yetiştirdikleri 1 yaşındaki ağaçlarını Gezi Parkı'na dikmişlerdi Perşembe günü. Bugün başka bi arkadaş (Havva) fotosunu çekmiş, hala yaşıyormuş.
"This book is predicated on taking this distinction seriously. Those aspects of knowledge for which there is a good predictive theory, typically a mathematical or scientific one, will be called theoryful. The rest will be called theoryless. I use the term theory here in the same sense as it is used in science, to denote a “good, effective, and useful theory” rather than the negative sense of “only a theory.” Predicting the orbit of a planet based on Newton’s laws is theoryful, since the predictor uses an explicit model that can accurately predict everything about orbits. A card player is equally theoryful in predicting an opponent’s hand, if this is done using a principled calculation of probabilities, as is a chemist who uses the principles of chemistry to predict the outcome of mixing two chemicals.
In contrast, the vast majority of human behaviors look theoryless. Nevertheless, these behaviors are often highly effective. These abundant theoryless but effective behaviors still lack a scientific account, and it is these that this book addresses." - http://www.probablyapproximatelycorrect.com/... | http://web.mit.edu/6...
- mkz
"Look past the crocodile tears on any online debunking forum, and you'll quickly find that the majority of visitors are not drawn there by concern for the victims of irrationality, but by contempt. They're there to laugh at idiots. I'm not going to plead innocence here: I've often joined in with the laughter, at least vicariously; laughing at idiots can be fun. But in the context of skeptic sites, the laughter takes on a bullying and unhealthy tone. It's never pleasant to watch a group of university graduates ganging up to sneer at people denied their advantages in life, especially when for some of them it's a full-time hobby. It's an unfair fight between unequal resources, and far too few skeptics care about this inequality or want to do anything about it."
- mkz
otis bıraktığım yerde duruyor yazı, tekrar dönemedim okumaya, ama şu ikinci yorumda alıntıladığım mesele (ve akrabaları) bu bağlamdan da genel olarak altı çizilmesi gereken bir şey gibi geliyor. Politik vb. konularda da mesela, "haklı pozisyondan vurma şehveti" gibi bir şey var. İçteki derdin, tartıştığın meselenin hallolmasından/çözülmesinden çok o meseledeki "doğru" duruşundan aldığın güçle karşındakini ezmek haline gelebiliyor. Karşındakini davana kazanmak da o gücü elinden alacak olduğu için belki içten içe tercih edilmeyen bir şey oluyor, geri adım atmaya fırsat verecek yollara girmekten kaçınıyorsun belki. "Bu da [ezmek de] çözüm için bir taktiktir" denebilir, kimi zaman doğrudur da herhalde bu, ama çoğunlukla sonradan yapıştırma (post hoc) ve eğreti bir açıklama gibi geliyor ("yaptım ama sor niye yaptım"). Aslında alışkanlıktan, "yaşanmışlıklardan" (kapışmışlıklardan) vb. kaynaklanana, hüsnü talil.
- mkz
"I'm no longer a skeptic, but still I can't resist the old skeptic urge to do a bit of debunking. After all, there are a lot of crackpots out there. There are people, for example, who believe that a superintelligent computer will arise in the next twenty years and then promptly either destroy humanity or cure death and set us free. There are people who believe that one of the best works of English literature is an unfinished Harry Potter fanfic by someone who can barely write a comprehensible English sentence. There are even people who believe the best thing you can do to help the poor and the starving is become a city stockbroker or Silicon Valley entrepreneur! And more often than not, the same people believe all these crazy things! The striking thing about these people is that they are no ordinary kooks — some of them actually identify as skeptics themselves, and all of them claim to be committed rationalists. Many are even full-time evangelists for "rationality", and can justify in sound and impressive detail why all their beliefs are correct. And they're not just backed up by the laws of logic and mathematics, but also by some of the finest minds and fattest wallets in Silicon Valley. Who are these people? They are the members of the Elect group who have received into their minds and hearts the glorious truth of something called Bayes' Theorem."
- mkz
Demek ki klişe gibi görünen laflar aslında işe yarıyor. Zor zamanlarda orijinal olacağız diye kastırmamak lazım. Klişeler boşuna klişe olmuyor.
- Kaan Öztürk
Öyle galiba. Onun dışında da içten gelen bi şekilde denilen şeyler, yanında olduğunu hissettiren şeyler anlamlı/faydalı oluyor galiba. Anı paylaşılması iyi geldi demiş bazıları da.
- mkz
Faruk gündüz ikinci yarısını görememişim ipad'de, şimdi gördüm. Buraya da alayım: "_I don't know what to say_, people wrote, or, _Words fail_. What amazed me about all the notes I got---mostly through e-mail, because who knew how to find me?---was how people _did_ know what to say, how words _didn't_ fail. Even the words _words fail_ comforted me. Before Pudding died, I'd thought condolence notes were simply small bits of old-fashioned etiquette, important but universally acknowledged as inadequate gestures. Now they felt like oxygen, and only now do I fully understand why: to know that other people were sad made Pudding more real. My friend Rob e-mailed me first, a beautiful and straightforward vow to do anything he could to help me. Some people apologized for sending sympathy through the ether; some overnighted notes; it made no difference to me. I read them, and reread them. They made me cry, which helped. They _moved_ me, that is to say, they felt physical, they budged me from the sodden self-disintegrating lump I otherwise was."
- mkz
"The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema"
- mkz
Cheshire cat casting'inde sıkıntı olmuş eheh.
- mkz
"The charge of the NRC committee, however, is to NOT focus on issues of copyright or open-access or who bears the cost of publishing, but instead on what could/can be done with documents that are (or once they are) freely electronically accessible, apart from simply finding and downloading them. Earlier this year, I posted a question about one possible use on MathOverflow and then on MathForge, about the possibility to “enrich” a paper by annotations from readers, which other readers could wish to consult (or not). These posts elicited some very useful comments. But this was but one way in which a [World Digital Mathematical Library] could be more than just an opportunity to find and download papers. Surely there are many more, that you, bloggers and blog-readers, can imagine, suggest, sketch."
- mkz
"Their progress is followed along an ideal thoroughfare. In songs where ancient ritual, myth, the mountain and the rose, mingle with taxis, telephones and powder-puffs. Old rhymes rarely dying - something new always appearing. No-one asks "What does this mean?" The world's accepted, poetry's kept alive. Favourite topic, love and death. Not meant for education or entertainment but belonging to the art of play. Shot in six Easter days of boisterous weather, the cast, mostly girls, numbering sixty. Made by teachers at Norton Park School, Edinburgh." - http://ssa.nls.uk/film...
- mkz