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• Jessica Daniels wrote a new post, Fletcher’s Marathoners, on the site The Fletcher School – Admissions News and Updates 5 minutes ago

  It’s a rare Fletcher student who pursues only one out-of-class activity, and our student bloggers are no exception.  First-year MALD student, Liam, is training with the Tufts Marathon Team to run in Monday’s <a […]

• Karen Lee wrote a new post, 8 Lee Karen, on the site Sp14-JPN-0061-01-Intro Japanese Culture 11 hours, 50 minutes ago

  Walking through a park near home

  The sun’s rays

  through the naked tree branches

  blind me

  The readings presented a dilemma for me similar to the one voiced in class. It was difficult for me to […]

• Karen Lee wrote a new post, 7 Lee Karen, on the site Sp14-JPN-0061-01-Intro Japanese Culture 11 hours, 51 minutes ago

   

   

   

   

   

  Passing through the wind tunnel, saw the trees…

   

  The empty bird’s nest

   

  shakes

   

  with the wind.

   

  In Nitobe Inazo’s Bushido – the Soul of Japan, we learn […]

• Karen Lee wrote a new post, 6 Lee Karen, on the site Sp14-JPN-0061-01-Intro Japanese Culture 11 hours, 52 minutes ago

  Just looking up at the night sky…

  I must admit that this week’s reading confused me.

  What I can draw from it is that Basho’s poetry exemplifies both change and the unchanging, and are thus timeless. […]

• Karen Lee wrote a new post, 5 Lee Karen, on the site Sp14-JPN-0061-01-Intro Japanese Culture 11 hours, 53 minutes ago

  Looking up at the night sky one evening…

   

  Ihara Saikaku’s The Woman Who Loved Love is the ‘confession’ of a woman who has whiled away her life promiscuously pursuing pleasure. Though she was born into […]

• Karen Lee wrote a new post, 1 Lee Karen, on the site Sp14-JPN-0061-01-Intro Japanese Culture 11 hours, 55 minutes ago

  When I went outside while it was snowing to look for my headphones…

  In a world

  of falling snow

  only I am still.

   

   

  The Kitagawa reading discusses motifs of early Japanese religion, which […]

• Eric Lease Morgan wrote a new post, Rome in a day, the archivist on a linked data pilgrimage way, on the site LiAM: Linked Archival Metadata 14 hours, 17 minutes ago

  
  

  If you to go to Rome for a day, then walk to the Colosseum and Vatican City. Everything you see along the way will be extra.

  Linked data is not a fad. It is not a trend. It makes a lot of computing […]

• Stephanie Tammen wrote a new post, News & Views: Can you think yourself to satiety?, on the site Great Diseases 17 hours, 33 minutes ago

  

   

  The world of nutrition has a long way to go before it fully understands the complex relationship between the brain and the gut, but a recently published study seems to have made a significant step in an […]

• Alex de Waal wrote a new post, Violence and peacemaking in the political marketplace, on the site Reinventing Peace 23 hours, 39 minutes ago

  Below is an excerpt from Alex de Waal’s essay, “Violence and peacemaking in the political marketplace” in Legitimacy and Peace Processes: from Coercion to Consent (Accord 25); pgs. 17 – 21. Full text available […]

• David Grogan wrote a new post, HEP Faculty and Students Receive Grant for Summer Research at CERN, on the site Physics & Astronomy 23 hours, 54 minutes ago

  

  We are excited to announce the Department’s High Energy Physics group has been awarded an International Research Program grant by the Tufts School of Arts & Sciences, which will enable a team of students, […]