It is striking that, after decades of hearing about ‘the two cultures’, one soft, one hard, one tactful, one mechanical, they both turn out to be irremediably hermeneutical and interpretative at heart, a practice of being in the world.

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Despite the the warm weather, definitely signs of autumn.

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It is *wild* to me that in the humanities there are top universities are still doing take-home exams. Apparently it's a cost-saving thing. I wonder if employers know, or whether they could start requiring disclosure, or whether grads might start saying on their CVs that they had closed book tests...

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University big wigs almost everywhere in complete denial about this. (Except QM, obvs, where SLT universally excellent, top class, etc).

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This paper is a wild ride - recommended for all academics I think journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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