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Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference
…[This] conference offered a vision for what philosophy can be as an intellectual pursuit and what professional philosophy could look like. Such a vision is critically important not only for young women scholars and scholars of color who are considering… Continue reading
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Open access to the universe
A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they’re giving it away. Source: www.symmetrymagazine.org Visualize, behold, consider. Continue reading
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John Oliver won’t be your therapist
The “Last Week Tonight” host isn’t interested in offering a balm for tough times. He wants you to pay attention VIDEO Source: www.salon.com Indeed. Without catering to advertisers, Oliver need only speak truth and let the message get through without… Continue reading
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Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection
In the murky world of unpaid bills, a banker and an ex-con can make a fortune — if they don’t run into too many crooks. Source: www.nytimes.com Continue reading
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Hilarious Madden 15 Ad
LOL This is hilarious. I really do not care all that much for football or video games. And certainly, I do not want to just hand out free advertising venues. But, come on… you have to admit when something is… Continue reading
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A Fujoshi’s heaven on earth exists in Ikebukuro’s Boy’s Love Academy cafe
Japan should officially be known as the land of themed cafés. From cat cafés to owl cafés, character cafés and maid cafés… there’s even a café where you can pay 980 yen (US$9.57) to get two young men to share a… Continue reading
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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): You JUST hired this person…do you even know….
…how many Twitter followers they have? LinkedIn Connections? Instagram followers? Do you know if they have a blog/tumblr? Do you have any idea at all what kind of network that person will be bringing into your organization? Why not? No,…… Continue reading
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The Fear Soaked Victim at the Heart of the Police State
We live in a culture where the victim is always the criminal and the criminal is always the victim. When it is a murderer–one without a police shield, of course–this is the sort of thing shouted by all kinds of… Continue reading
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America Is Not For Black People
Michael Brown is not special. In all its specificity, the 18-year olds death remains just the most recent example of police officers killing unarmed black men.Part of the reason were seeing so many black men killed is that police officers… Continue reading
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