here<\/a> for a longer list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick, name five genius scientists and inventors… Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison. All vegetarians? Of course. Elephant journal includes five others on its list. How about philosophers and cultural innovators? Pythagoras, Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha, Leo Tolstoy, Marsilio Ficino, Plato by some accounts… See here for a longer list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-HA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1222,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/26\/food-desert-mansions\/","url_meta":{"origin":2702,"position":0},"title":"food & desert mansions","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"(great scenes, part 4) http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9rxpfO90mg8&hl=en_US&fs=1& A propos the previous post... This may be one of Antonioni's worst, or at least most dated, films, but the climactic scene is certainly memorable, especially if you know Pink Floyd's \"Careful with that axe, Eugene\" (though, honestly, once the screaming starts, the music feels\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cinema"","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/9rxpfO90mg8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1015,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/01\/05\/book-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":2702,"position":1},"title":"book list","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In \"immanent naturalism\"","block_context":{"text":"immanent naturalism","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/tag\/immanent-naturalism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10753,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2020\/05\/30\/jstors-open-access-list\/","url_meta":{"origin":2702,"position":2},"title":"JSTOR’s open access list","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted before about the coronavirus \u201csilver lining\u201d of the (partial) opening of access to peer-reviewed literature that some academic presses have been offering through the Covid-19 pandemic. Peer-reviewed literature is the bread and butter of scholarship, and access to it is not just a perk of being in academia,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Academe"","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8637,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2016\/03\/19\/what-we-ask-students-to-read\/","url_meta":{"origin":2702,"position":3},"title":"What we ask students to read…","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Both\u00a0Open Culture\u00a0and The New York Times have reported on the Open Syllabus Project, which has tallied over\u00a0a million college course syllabi to determine the 10,000 or so most commonly assigned texts. The project also provides a\u00a0cluster map\u00a0of these texts, which is probably less interesting (and more confusing) in its large\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Academe"","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7564,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/06\/03\/top-humanists-final-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":2702,"position":4},"title":"Top humanists: final results","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Since most of us love lists -- or at least love and hate them simultaneously\u00a0--\u00a0here is\u00a0the updated\u00a0version of the \"Top humanities theorists\u00a0of the last century\" list. See the previous version for the full criteria and the caveats. Briefly: it's a list of the most cited humanities theorists of the last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Academe"","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7836,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/18\/apocalypse-mashup\/","url_meta":{"origin":2702,"position":5},"title":"Apocalypse mashup","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's theme in my \"Environmental Literature, Arts, & Media\" class is apocalyptic rhetoric. (I'm loosely following Greg Garrard's list of tropes in Ecocriticism, but adding, amplifying, and amending to be more artistically inclusive.) Because it's a fun topic (and deadly serious, too), I thought I'd post a few of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Media ecology"","block_context":{"text":"Media ecology","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/media_ecology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ozBE-ZPw18c\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}