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  • 5 Tips For Making Great Coffee

    Freese Coffee Co. have put together an interactive diagram, For Better Coffee, listing 5 tips for making great coffee.  Follow the bean through sourcing, grinding, measurements, and brew times for the perfect cup of coffee.  There have been a lot… Source:… Continue reading

  • Portland State University creates zero-g espresso cups for space – Gizmag

    To help the zero-g coffee aficionado, Portland State University’s (PSU) Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science has developed a microgravity espresso cup that drinks like its earthbound… Source: www.gizmag.com Perfect espresso anywhere.  Continue reading

  • Peacock’s Cry of Soul’s Splendour

    Image via http://chronoperates.deviantart.com/art/Art-Nouveau-Peacock-272202614 I.“A Sufi legend, likely of Persian origin, suggests that god created spirit in the form of a peacock. Source: symbolreader.net Continue reading

  • That’s rich! Why so many wealthy Americans think they’re middle class

    Recent remarks from Treasury Secretary Jack Lew help shed light on a troubling phenomenon Source: www.salon.com this should not be a surprise   Continue reading

  • Making It About Gender

    by Michelle Dean The news about humanity is never very good when it comes from Reddit, is it? Today’s contribution comes via an editorial at WIRED. Its authors, Elena Glassman, Neha Narula and Jean… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com It does matter  Continue reading

  • Masculine Energy

    by Phoebe Maltz Bovy I can’t stop thinking about Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart’s essay identifying with macho or misogynistic male authors and protagonists: I’d always understood I was a she, and I nev… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com The protagonist’s gaze Continue reading

  • America’s Tortured Conscience

    Originally posted on The Dish: by Will Wilkinson The Washington Post reports: A majority of Americans believe that the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were justified, even as about half the public… Continue reading

  • Emails Of The Day

    Originally posted on The Dish: A reader writes: From early 2006 to late 2009, I was a part of the post-9/11 corporate-security state serving as an intelligence analyst. This is not a fact in which I take much pride. When… Continue reading

    Emails Of The Day

  • Government Fails When It Fails to Be Government

    Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Let’s start with a little game. Fill in the blanks: Government interventions over the past four decades have yielded a cascade of perverse incentives, bureaucratic diktats, and economic pressures that together are forcing… Continue reading

  • A Torch for the Path to Omniscience | Lotsawa House

    This is the word-by-word commentary on the text of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminary practices entitled, ‘A Torch for the Excellent Path of Omniscience’. Source: www.lotsawahouse.org Letting-go of frustration, practicing compassion, open to the Encompassing – #liberation Continue reading