Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The Sparrow and The Red-Crowned Crane
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: A small sparrow was weaving her way down along the tree line, darting in-and-out of its branches before quickly changing directions and taking a steep dive over the riverside grasses. With a… Continue reading
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Deleuze for realz
“If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked.” ― Gilles Deleuze “The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?” ― Gilles Deleuze “Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!” ― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus:… Continue reading
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The slim chances of getting on tenure track without an “elite” school PhD
This is why I am keeping my PhD studies oriented toward these targets: (1) becoming a coffee consultant, (2) setting up a practice as a philosophical counselor, and (3) looking for a job in the academy. Why do folks sign up… Continue reading
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Solitude: The Most Underestimated Self-Development Necessity
Montaigne, the great French writer, said that “we must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude”. Source: www.linkedin.com Continue reading
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The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever Seen
The most thunderstruck I’ve ever been by art was before the 13,000-year-old cave paintings of mammals in Niaux, France. Source: www.vulture.com Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | Brain Pickings
Carl Sagan saw in books “proof that humans are capable of working magic.” The magic of humanity’s most enduring books — the great works of literature and philosophy — lies in the simple fact that they are full of hope… Continue reading
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Extracting a Mean for the Coffee Bean
Australian Barista-Philosopher Matt Perger philosophizes on the sense of “evenness” when talking about coffee extraction: Throughout my Barista career, so many of my teachers and peers have told me to extract evenly. “Don’t do x or the extraction won’t be… Continue reading
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ear nose and throat
Originally posted on coromandal: The elephant’s trunk isn’t the elephant and the elephant isn’t tree-like; these misapprehensions are the pitfalls of specialization. To really know the elephant must be divine, and will require knowing more than one body part. It’s the… Continue reading
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Thomas Merton on Being an Intellectual, and a Message to the Poets
Originally posted on Jeremy D. Johnson: Thomas Merton was born today, January 31st in 1915. A January baby, like me. Merton was a Christian monastic, whose tremendously popular autobiographic The Seven Story Mountain (1948) made him a well known and well read American… Continue reading
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Žižek and ecology
A series wherein Slavoj Žižek maintains ecology is the new opiate of the masses. Continue reading
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A Laud at Sunrise
_/|\_ A Prayer on Awakening with the Sun Oh thou Encompassing, thou Good, thou All, thou One. We turn ours beings toward the Way, and we take up responsibility for our paths. Let us rejoice in the rest we took through… Continue reading
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Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than two sexes
As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation about sex. A 46-year-old pregnant woman had visited his… Continue reading
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Brew Ratios Around the World
Written by Ben Blake Brewing espresso seems like a pretty straightforward process, but there are actually quite a few variables that we’re looking to control and balance at one time in order to get… Source: home.lamarzoccousa.com At B – M… Continue reading
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Class, Change and Revolution
Without addressing exploitation, social harmony will remain elusive. Source: www.truth-out.org Continue reading
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You can come to the desert but you cannot stay here
Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: You can come to the desert, you can live here, but you cannot stay here. We knew this when we arrived in Joshua Tree, yet I doubt we knew why. Yesterday, Aleksandra found a beautiful skull… Continue reading
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