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7 Quick Takes (4/13/12)

7 Quick Takes (4/13/12)

Last updated on: December 30, 2012 at 1:24 am by Leah Libresco

7 Quick Takes (4/13/12) 2012-12-30T01:24:51-05:00 Leah Libresco

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I realize I started experimenting with cooking and giving up gnosticism just in time (or possibly too late!). You see, I went out with friends to see Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado and when Katisha opened a song with:

Alone, and yet alive! Oh, sepulchre!
My soul is still my body’s prisoner!

My friends leaned across the seats to nudge me and say, “Look, she’s a dualist, like you!”

Oh dear.

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Our discussion of determinism a few weeks ago petered out unsatisfyingly, but that’s ok, because this Dinosaur Comic is really the last word on the question:

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Via Patheos blogger The Crescat in the Catholic Portal comes the answer to a question I’ve had ever since the big overhaul of the English-language Roman Missal: there does appear to be an ASL version of the Mass in development!

Watching the interpreter in my local parish, I noticed he was usually signing with the syntax of spoken English, so I assumed there wasn’t a full translation.

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The video below should give you a pretty decent idea about the difference between the syntax of real ASL and what’s sometimes called Simple Signed English (SEE) or English on the hands. Ally is signing a translation of the song in the full screen and translating word-by-word in the inset screen.

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Sign language is a full language that encodes meaning spatially, instead of aurally. Because I’m such a math nerd, I really geek out about cool uses of spatial reasoning. Needless to say, I was delighted to see the NYT‘s visualization of orchestral conductors.

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I may have mentioned how much I’ve enjoyed the “Building a Search Engine” programming class I’ve been taking from Udacity. Registration is open now for their next cycle of classes (the most basic of which requires no previous programming experience). I really recommend them and I’m glad to answer any specific questions in the comments.

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That wraps up the quick takes for this week. I’ve got an action packed weekend ahead of me. I’m heading over to Catholic University of America to see a symposium on “Creation and Modern Science” which will include Edward Feser (whose book The Last Superstition, I’ve blogged about previously). And later that day: roller derby.

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