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Secrets Of Earth’s Past Discovered In Famous Paintings
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Turns out there’s way more to art than its aesthetic appeal. New research by Greek and German scientists suggests that some of the world’s most celebrated landscape paintings may reveal information about pollution levels… Continue reading
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Language will outlive us – By Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “A poet always knows that what in the vernacular is called the voice of the Muse is, in reality, the dictate of language; that it’s not the language that happens to be his instrument,… Continue reading
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Can Heritage Foundation Posterboy Bono Save the GOP?
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsThe U2 frontman wants to save the world. Why shouldn’t he save Republicans, too? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "…The journey of the celebrity artist or entrepreneur is today the most culturally significant journey people make… Continue reading
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Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy (Andragogy, Heutagogy) of Mobile Learning
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement based on the… Continue reading
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How Did Toast Become the Latest Artisanal Food Craze?
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsHow did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: …’ Why all the toast? “Tip of the hipster spear,” he said. I… Continue reading
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The Germ Theory of Democracy, Dictatorship, and Your Cherished Beliefs
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsIs culture just a side effect of the struggle to avoid disease? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: ‘…Thornhill is confident in the evidence underlying his theory, and relatively untroubled by the implications. “If you increase health… Continue reading
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Waking Life Bed Scene with Ethan Hawke
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Waking Life bed scene with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. A discussion of collective memory, collective unconscious, originality, and the death of the author. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: … multiple discovery purports that ideas are… Continue reading
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Radiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site Highlights Problems
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A recent fire and radiation release at New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant uranium repository has brought renewed focus on the problem of what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive waste and… Continue reading
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Granting “Personhood” Status for Great Apes
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Humans are classified by biologists as Great Apes, along with orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. And geneticists inform us that we share 98 percent of our DNA with chimps. Yet all the… See on… Continue reading
