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Dark matter looks more and more likely after new gamma-ray analysis
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Scientists describe as ‘extremely interesting’ new analysis that makes case for gamma rays tracing back to Wimp particles Not long after the Fermi Gamma-ray SpaceTelescope took to the sky in 2008, astrophysicists noticed that… Continue reading
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Textimony 20140311
Laboring at life as a distracted employee? Embrace existence as loving diversion! Let go of the ordinary: Allow yourself to be out-of-order. Continue reading
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Textimony 20140309
“To carry communication in all its possibilities closer to reality is the daily labor of philosophy.” Karl Jaspers The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (175) Continue reading
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Textimony 20140306
Free to doubt this human frailty –a gasp, a tear, a touch, a laugh– forsaken of any certainty: at play in wonder. Let-go. Love. Live. Continue reading
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Barely Keeping Up in TV’s New Golden Age – NYTimes.com
The growing intellectual currency of television has altered the cultural conversation in fundamental ways. Water cooler chatter is now a high-minded pursuit, not just a way to pass the time at work. The three-camera sitcom with a laugh track has… Continue reading
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How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine | The Nation
Mechanical Turk is the innovation behind “crowdworking,” the low-wage virtual labor phenomenon that has reinvented piecework for the digital age. Created by Amazon in 2005, it remains one of the central platforms—markets, really—where crowd-based labor is bought and sold. As… Continue reading
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Mona Lisa stopped smiling – A Conversation on the Phenomenology of News | Circa Blog
If the goal of the news is to make sense of the world — then we must “model” the shape of the world with our stories. I would argue many traditional tools and processes reflect the world, but don’t model… Continue reading
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Darling visions
…this is just a beginning your fault lines on the wall waiting to break a part of the night first thinking best thinking purity of complettion suddenly lost and found among the allied forces who invited days’ dark depressions– meaningless… Continue reading
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Burned, Bombed, Beaten
Education is under attack worldwide. The report issued by the United Nations speaks to conditions in the most physically violent locales around the globe. We should pay close heed to these. Because they are the physical counterpart of the psychosocial… Continue reading
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A better direction for beauty
An old ambition is peeking through: that beauty and glamour shouldn’t be divorced from wisdom. In the perfect world, the great truths wouldn’t lie locked away in depressing unreadable books or be spoken only by inarticulate and visually challenged members… Continue reading
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