Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Solar power with a view: Transparent luminescent solar concentrators
Researchers have developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window. It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator and can be used on… Continue reading
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The Twilight of Antonin Scalia
The conservative hero’s fiery 2012 dissent on same-sex marriage could be his most influential opinion—but not in the way he intended. Source: m.theatlantic.com Continue reading
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The Thing Employers Look For When Hiring Recent Graduates
…isn’t something that can be done on campus. It’s an internship. Source: m.theatlantic.com Continue reading
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The Cult of Richard Dawkins
Certainly from a conservative source in Britain, but it has some interesting information that can be fact checked if you so like: …the Richard Dawkins website offers followers the chance to join the ‘Reason Circle’, which, like Dante’s Hell, is… Continue reading
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Ressentiment on Aug 17
Ressentiment Feeling again the “cause” of frustration but the cause has no real effect feeling again only my imagination brings about this personal defect getting stuck in futures now/here superseded beyond where I’m butchered forward falling, impeded being stuck in… Continue reading
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The LGBTQ Christian
As many rightly can assume, I am an existential philosopher whose religious notions lean more toward the Dào these days. However, I do live in Texas, USA, and many of my good brothers and sisters still walk their path as Christians. I… Continue reading
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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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Should the Internet Be Like the Public Library?
A recent study put the US at number 31 in the world in overall download speed, lagging behind much smaller countries like Estonia, Hungary, and Slovakia. Source: truth-out.org Continue reading
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Connectivity is not binary, the network is never neutral.
although the challenges of connecting people sound the same, every trip offers up a new angle on what connectivity means to the locals: its impact on gender roles in India; the rise of love-marriages in Afghanistan; a more level playing… Continue reading
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