Society, law and economic necessity all conspire to make work a near-essential requirement. Would it be better if this w Source: disinfo.com Continue reading

At the suggestion of appalled supporters, Bonnie Weinstein finally compiled a selection of choice missives into a book, To the Far Right Christian Hater: You can be a good speller or a hater, but you can’t be both. I was… Continue reading

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Abstract The manner in which reality is perceived and conceptualized has profound implications for many levels of human existence. Source: www.mundusimaginalis.org Continue reading

The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to just about any line of work Source: www.salon.com   Because it delivers real skills, philosophy doesn’t go out of fashion the way the vague, trendy… Continue reading

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 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