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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic."
Arthur C. Clarke (author of 2001: A Space Odyssey
and many others)
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Until you get close, briar patches look like solid masses of leaves, stems,
and thorns. Brer Rabbit and other clever folks know that once you're inside,
a briar patch is really a comfortable maze. The leaves, stems, and thorns
hide clear paths, shady nooks, and hidden treasures. They also deter those
who are too big (like Brer Bear) or cocky (like Brer Fox).
Courses, college, and life are briar patches. Their hidden treasures are
technologies: ways of thinking and doing. Until you get inside adn poke
around, they seem scary. It's easy to stay outside, put off by what seems
like magic, while wily old Brer Rabbit and anyone else who is willing to
explore romps inside.
I am comfortable in the briar patch I work in, and I hope you will like
it, too. This site is for people who want to poke around in some mazes,
explore some technologies, perhaps learn some magic. Those who do will
find the paths that make a briar patch home.
Some of the mazes I work in are technologies called statistics,
operations management, the economics of crime, and two especially for
freshmen: "Introduction to College Life" and "Writing".
Explore! Poke around! Enjoy!
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I am George
D. Brower, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Professor
of Economics and Business
Comenius
Hall Room 212
Moravian
College
1200 Main
Street
Bethlehem.
PA 18018-6650
USA
Phone: 610-
861-1379
E-mail:
browerg at moravian dot edu
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"Life is not a horse race." George Brower
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expressed are my responsibility only.
They do not necessarily reflect views held by other persons or
institutions, including specifically
Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary.
Copyright © 2005. All rights reserved, including but not limited
to downloading, reposting,
and duplication. Readers are authorized to print a single copy for
personal use. As Jan Adkins
(1973) put it:
"We have gone to considerable difficulty and expense
to assemble a staff of
necromancers, sorcerers, shamans, conjurers and lawyers to visit
nettlesome and mystifying
discomforts on any ninny who endeavors to reproduce or transmit this
book in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, including information storage and retrieval
systems without permission from
the publisher. Watch yourself."
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Adkins, Jan (1973) Toolchest: A Primer of Woodcraft. New
York: Walker and Company,
p.4.
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As far as I know, all images and quotations are used within the fair
use limits established by law
and their distributors' licenses. Please
email me if that assumption is incorrect so I can remove any
offending material.
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This page was last updated August 25, 2006
Ver. 5 November 17, 2005; Ver. 4 June 26, 2000; Ver. 3 June 12, 1999;
Ver. 2 Spring 1996; Ver. 1 Fall 1994
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