Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Season 5 Episode 7 | Jimmy Fallon
https://www.youtube.com/v/UepDy0-H8jc?fs=1&hl=fr_FR FULL EPISODE : The Unsinkable Legend: Part 1 it’s like jimmy hanging out with his favorite uncle. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Season 5 Episode 7 | Jimmy Fallon Comedians in Cars Getting… Source: www.youtube.com LOL Continue reading
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‘Plato at the Googleplex,’ by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Goldstein is a novelist and a teacher of philosophy… [who] has written a love letter to Plato, whom she regards as having given us philosophy. He is, in her view, as relevant today as he ever was — which is… Continue reading
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‘A Philosophy of Walking,’ by Frédéric Gros
Less organized than a sport and more profound than a voyage, a long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the sublime. Source: www.nytimes.com Less organized than a sport and more profound than a voyage, a long walk, Gros… Continue reading
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Amazing Folk Tale Map Reveals Deep Links Between Cultures
“ Researchers used techniques from genetics to explain culture.” Source: uk.businessinsider.com Extremely interesting Continue reading
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Quantum Teleportation Reaches Farthest Distance Yet
Physicists have teleported a light particle 15 miles (25 kilometers), making it the farthest quantum teleportation yet. Advances in quantum teleportation could lead to better Internet and communication security, and get scientists closer to developing quantum computers. About five years… Continue reading
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Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification
Another wonderful find by my Buddy-Friend-Guy, Christopher… For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in… Continue reading
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Wig In A Box – YouTube
On nights like this When the world’s a bit amiss And the lights go down Across the trailer park I get down, I feel had I feel on the verge of going mad And t… Source: www.youtube.com One of my… Continue reading

