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Man Bites Dogma – A RAW Conversation
He’s been called a cult figure to various lunatic fringe groups, Tom Robbins calls him “a dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway of higher consciousness,” he calls himself an iconoclastic comedian,… Continue reading
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The Only Animals With Chins
Pigs don’t have chins. Nor do any animals, except for us. The lower jaw of a chimpanzee or gorilla slopes backwards from the front teeth. So did the jaw of other hominids like Homo erectus. Even Neanderthal jaws ended in… Continue reading
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What is Altruism?
Matthieu Ricard uncovers the reasons why altruism is the vital thread that can answer the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long term. The book paints… Continue reading
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Nootropics or Smart Drugs
Important caveat for those thinking smart drugs can make a person more intelligent: Like any performance enhancer, there has to be a core level of intelligence or athleticism to be augmented. Welcome to the world of nootropics, or smart drugs.… Continue reading
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Sufficiency Economy
Everyone has been affected by the #economiccrisis and some of us know folks who are still reeling from how banks played dice with our futures. If you have an hour, you might want to learn a little about how Buddhist’s… Continue reading
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Cagey Anarchism
More than two decades after Cage’s death, a small press called Siglio has published a definitive edition of his major long text. Starting in 1965, Cage developed a poetic form he titled a Diary and accurately described as “a mosaic… Continue reading
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Academia as mechanical productivity
like the Whatever Etc page if you use Facebook. It is amazing how the machinery of academia has been turned on by someone and just left running… Like a Charlie… Posted by Whatever Etc. on Friday, January 22, 2016 Continue reading
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#UnderSiege #MahmoudDarwish
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken shadows, We do what prisoners do, And what the jobless do: We cultivate hope. *** A country preparing for dawn.… Continue reading
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Public memory, propaganda, and ethics
My colleague is trying to get his students thinking about ethics by putting forward an issue of public morals and conscience. I agree with him that this monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Denton, Texas, should be removed. I was… Continue reading
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