Welcome to the
Nipissing University
Unofficial Humanities Page
Vincent Van Gogh 1888 (but surely you knew that)
A miscellany of things you could be reading and thinking about...
New items added at the top -- but the old items are worth a second look...
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Poems Not Fit for the White House
The Harvard Classics (in case you want to take charge of your own education)
The History of Herodotus: The Internet Classics Archive
The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses UVM
Modern Ruins: Photographic Essays
FAIR Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting
Short Stories: Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
Let Walter Rufus Eagles read poetry to you
Everything you Need to Know about the History of Philosophy
Poetry for Memorization and Reading Aloud Fall 2001
Helping students assess their thinking...
Timeline of Western Philosophy
The Philosophers' Magazine Online
First things first reference desk
The Pre-Socratics: Being, not-being and becoming
Letters at 3 am: Michael Ventura
And some ways to waste your time (not entirely unprofitably)
Street Art The Williams' Photo Gallery
A Penguin's day at the Biodome in Montreal (webcam)
And some words of warning:
Once conform, once do what other people
do because they do
it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties
of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness;
dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf
(created by Ursula Stange in the lazy, hazy days of early summer 2003 and last updated in September of 2005 )