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  • Outrospection

    Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. Continue reading

    Outrospection

  • what the fundamentalist believes

    Originally posted on coromandal: Mitra Tabrizian The most dangerous fundamentalism today is banking. Nevertheless, there are other fundamentalisms that harm us, as there always will be: religious, political, racial etc. Salman Rushdie has a beef with the religious variety; he wrote… Continue reading

  • The Stimulating History of Coffee: Why You Hear This Word Around the World

    The great majority of languages borrowed their word for coffee. Unlike the words for, say, milk or water, which developed within a given language family over thousands of years, the word for coffee hopped from one language to another, and… Continue reading

  • The Loving Struggle of 8-Bit Philosophy

    Graphics have come a long way from the old days of Nintendo games like Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda. The graphic system itself still holds a kind of nostalgia. And the creative thinkers at Wisecrack… Continue reading

    The Loving Struggle of 8-Bit Philosophy

  • It’s Past Time to Reform Science Funding

    In the decade since the National Academy of Sciences reported on the alarming difficulty scientists were facing in setting their own research directions—and declared “the time for action is now”—it’s only gotten harder for scientific upstarts to nab major grants, according to a perspective by… Continue reading

  • Finding Genghis Khan’s Tomb from Space

    Due to the public outcry, however, none of the sites were excavated. It was an impasse: Genghis Khan’s tomb is archaeologically important; knowing its location is important for protecting it from illegal mining in the area. At the same time,… Continue reading

  • This Way

    We are frustrated by how we confuse  difference with complexity. Identify this now/here…  The simple way! Among so many choices there are a few decisions but no single path  when the Way  is the Encompassing Itself. Live – Believe –… Continue reading

  • Control Continued – Oh, Dear

    Confusion, uncertainty–oh, dear. Continue reading

    Control Continued – Oh, Dear

  • Overcoming the McMindfulness Craze

    Jeffrey R. Rubin examines the troubles that arise when meditative practices of detachment, like those in Buddhism, are decontextualized and used to further repress our emotions. He recommends another kind of engaged reflection called emancipatory meditation. Emancipatory meditation – which involves intimacy with… Continue reading

  • Flipping the Script: Pedagogy, Theater and Radical Organizing in Schools of Poverty

    there are, at this point, numerous books testifying to the dismal state of American public education in the communities, primarily of color, that have been marginalized and abandoned by our increasingly austere system. And beyond the exposés of the moral… Continue reading