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Brain Pickings
An inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness, spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more.Source: www.brainpickings.org Continue reading
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Tove Jansson’s Rare Vintage Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland
Down the rabbit-hole, Moomin-style.As a lifelong lover of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, I was thrilled to discover one of its mosSource: www.brainpickings.org Continue reading
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Are You Ordering The Right Coffee?
When I was a barista, I got it all the time. A customer walks in, marches up to the counter, assumes the demeanor of a connoisseur, and demands: dark roast.It was a dicey moment, because at Blue Bottle we do… Continue reading
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Noam Chomsky | Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself and the Corporate Sector
What happened when the Russian threat disappeared in 1989? Answer: everything continued much as before.Source: www.truth-out.orgThe Security State as mask for the Society of Control. Continue reading
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Dahr Jamail: What’s Happening in Iraq Is the Legacy of the US Invasion and Occupation
For this week’s episode of ”Unauthorized Discloure,” Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek spoke with Truthout staff reporter Dahr Jamail about Iraq’s continued descent into chaos.Source: truth-out.orgA conversation with Truthout’s DAHR JAMAIL. Continue reading
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A Treasury of Justice Ginsburg’s Real Talk In Her Hobby Lobby Dissent
One bright, shining light did come out of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby cases this morning: a 35-page dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You might find it depressing to be the position of seizing what hope… Continue reading
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Five Reasons That Hobby Lobby Decision Is Bananas — TheLi.st @ Medium — Medium
(Not including the five dudes who voted for it!)Source: medium.comActually the most backward thing about this is that Hobby Lobby claims to run its company “in a manner consistent with biblical principles.” Which means you’d best be getting yourselves to… Continue reading
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Distant Triple Monster Black Hole Discovered
Astronomers have witnessed a triplet of monster black holes swirling in the center of a distant galaxy, a new study says.Astronomers have learned over the past decade or two that virtually every full-size galaxy such as our own Milky Way… Continue reading
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33rd Square | Is This The End of Careers As We Know Them?
With technological unemployment increasingly a factor in almost every profession and job, what will the future of work be like, and how can you succeed?Source: www.33rdsquare.com Continue reading
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Bell’s theorem still reverberates: How entanglement makes the impossible possible
Fifty years ago, John Bell made metaphysics testable, but quantum scientists still dispute the implications.In 1964, Northern Irish physicist John Bell proved mathematically that certain quantum correlations, unlike all other correlations in the Universe, cannot arise from any local cause1. This… Continue reading
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