Keith “Maggie” Brown
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BBC News – Ancient rock art’s colours c
BBC News – Ancient rock art’s colours come from microbes http://ow.ly/cXBsl Continue reading
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Keep On Cooking: This is the way to live
Keep On Cooking: This is the way to live | Julia Child Remixed | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube http://ow.ly/cXwx8 Continue reading
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Game of Thrones author George R. R. Mart
Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin contra Voter ID Laws – “Show Us Your Papers” http://ow.ly/cXoQj Continue reading
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A Public Soul in Stasis: Ayn Rand vs. the Pope – Salon.com
The Greek word for “civil war” is stasis. While that might seem strange to them modern ear, it actually makes sense. Stasis is achieved when two or more great forces bring a thing/process to a halt. Much of our public… Continue reading
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an element of our world of great importa
an element of our world of great importance has been lost « coromandal http://ow.ly/cXjQT Continue reading
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Bain’s latest outsourcing plan | Business | guardian.co.uk
This is not how industrial capitalism is supposed to work. It is exactly how corporate capitalism works. Workers insist their operation is profitable and makes top quality auto sensors. “I understand business needs to make a profit. But this product… Continue reading
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The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan on the pale grass blue butterfly
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment. A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the biological impacts of this accident on animals… Continue reading
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Harvard Researchers Find A Creative Way To Make Incentives Work
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Incentives are all the rage: employee bonus pay, app badges, student grades, and even lunch with President Obama. See on feedproxy.google.com Continue reading
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zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » Pew II: Prevalence of belief in the Jinn
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions . . I’ve been ‘fond’ of the jinn (djenoun) since first encountering them in the brilliant short stories of Paul Bowles, and notably his A Hundred Camels in the… See on zenpundit.com Continue reading
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Author Interview: Gene Doucette « Tracy
Author Interview: Gene Doucette « Tracy James Jones http://ow.ly/cXkbu Continue reading
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In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades | Books | guardian.co.uk
I always a enjoy a good piece of sober thinking that points out the implicit slippery slope fallacy lurking in so many Jeremiah like wailings of the “end is nye”… It’s tempting to get caught up in paradigm-shift apocalypticism, but… Continue reading
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Postal Savings Banks… An Important Idea
Right now, there are few ways for poor people to even try to save what little money they have. It is often hard to get an account, and even if you do, fees will be too high or interest too… Continue reading
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The issues with Ayn Rand…
Yesterday, I posted a lecture by David Harvey on Karl Marx Das Kapital. I did this because the majority of people have not even read Marx’s main work and do not really get what he is talking about. On the… Continue reading
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separate but not equal « Jason Alan. Wri
separate but not equal « Jason Alan. Writer, Character. http://ow.ly/cUA8U Continue reading