The Median Isn't The Message
This is a great essay that I found on the web. For a PhD student who faces cancer it is a refreshing read. It also makes perfect sense for an aspiring social scientist attempting to understand empirical baggage and the seeming dichotomy between how we construct, understand, and perceive knowledge.
Josh
Also, someone turned me on to this last lecture video that if you have the time is really a great listen. "Last Lecture" series are invitations to faculty members to provide what would be their final lecture in life. This professor at Carnegie Mellon is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This is apparently a very popular video.
2 comments:
60 minutes did a brief story last week and then primetime followed up with a whole hour on this guy's story (or one of those newsy doc shows)... it was fantastic!
i saw that 60 mins episode as well, this guy is great, truly optimistic, i love his outlook on life...
glad to see you are doing much better josh.. i have been thinking about u. stay well.
~Jamie
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