Category Archives: Aesthetics

the study or theory of beauty and of the psychological responses to it; specifically, the branch of philosophy dealing with art, its creative sources, its forms, and its effects

Why Writing is Important

By Jon Jackson | Published: August 27, 2010
I like Noah. Noah was a late bloomer. All his contemporaries were having children in their sixties, their hundreds, their one hundred nineties. Mere striplings. But Noah? Noah was five hundred years old when he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth, six hundred when the flood came; middle age. A few more years and he wouldn't [...]
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Learning Stuff

By Jon Jackson | Published: July 16, 2010
I ordered one of the “Great Courses” from The Teaching Company the other day and it arrived the day before yesterday. (I say the day before yesterday because it was sitting outside the door when I went out to go to work yesterday. Evidently FedEx corporate policy states that knocking would disturb our quiet familial [...]
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Maybe They Could Make It Out of Jello

By Jon Jackson | Published: February 23, 2010
According to USA Today: Nutritionists have long warned of the perils of hot dogs: fat, sodium and preservatives to name a few. Now, the American Academy of Pediatrics wants foods like hot dogs to come with a warning label — not because of their nutritional risks but because they pose a choking hazard to babies [...]
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What I’m Doing Right Now

By Jon Jackson | Published: January 5, 2010
Is it right to worry more about the look of your blog than the content? Tune in and We'll talk about it.
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