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Bruce I. Kodish

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Flapping Yourself

How do you flap yourself? What does it have to do with 'general semantics'? Read my latest Korzybski Files blogpost to find out. http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2009/04/korzybski-and-parable-of-flappers.html Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on April 3, 2009 at 3:27pm — 2 Comments

Google Contest: Is There Something Here For You?

Google to reward those who do good If you have an idea to make the world a better place, Google wants to hear about it, and - if it's deemed worthy - provide the money to bring it to reality. The $10 million project, introduced Wednesday, is a competition that will end with the Internet giant picking five winners. "These ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or brilliantly simple - but they need to have impact," Google said in a statement. The criteria for picking the winners wi… Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on September 26, 2008 at 1:06pm — 3 Comments

Chain Reaction

On my Korzybski Files weblog I've got a new posting on a dramatic demonstration that Korzybski used in his seminars in the late 1940s. There's a neat video of a similar demo that I included. Jump to the link below to view it. http://korzybskifiles.blogspot.com/2008/07/chain-reaction-dramatic-demonstration.html Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on July 31, 2008 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

The 13th Floor Elevators

They came out of the Texas inspired by Korzybski and L.S.D—one of the first of the psychedelic rock bands of the 1960s. They had a singer Roky Erickson, who had the vocal range of a Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger rolled-into-one. Tommy Hall, who—inspired by his study of Nietzsche, Gurdjieff, Korzybski, and others—wrote many of the lyrics, played an amplified jug (that strange rhythmical 'tooka-tooka-tooka' sound you can hear in the background). Here's a quote from the liner notes—th… Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on May 29, 2008 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Ben Jonson's Time-Binding Testament

Will Shakespeare's friend, Ben Jonson, knew a few things about human evaluating. Here's a quote from his essay ,"Discoveries Made on Man and Matter: "If in some things I dissent from others, whose wit, industry, diligence, and judgement, I look up at and admire, let me not therefore hear presently of ingratitude and rashness. For I thank those that have taught me, and ever will; but yet dare not think the scope of their labour and inquiry was to envy their posterity what they also could add and… Continue

Added by Bruce I. Kodish on May 20, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

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