Keith “Maggie” Brown
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A Cultural History Of Coffee Shop Campers – Sprudge
I camp, therefore I am. Source: sprudge.com It got so bad that a number of Sultans tried to ban people hanging out in coffee houses, on pain of death, though that might have had something to do with political unrest. These… Continue reading
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7 facts you should know about the Ebola outbreak
It’s the biggest Ebola outbreak on record. Here’s the basics. Source: www.vox.com Not absolute death, but that does not mean precautions should be ignored. Continue reading
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From the Printed Comic to ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
A comic book property like “Guardians of the Galaxy” may seem ideal for the big screen, but comics have singular pleasures of their own. Source: www.nytimes.com Continue reading
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Pinky And The Brain Have Finally Reached Their Breaking Point
Everyone has a limit where they just stop refusing to put up with shit. Some people — like the megalomaniacal Animaniacs’ character Brain here — will put up with his compatriot Pinky’s gross incompetence for years until he snaps… as… Continue reading
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The Big Screen: Celebrating Miyazaki In Fort Worth | Art&Seek
Ahead of the Lone Star Film Society’s retrospective, we talk about the Japanese animator’s lasting legacy with Dr. Marc Hairston, a UTD professor who teaches a Source: artandseek.net Continue reading
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Rent or Tuition? The Growing Student Dilemma
Skyrocketing university costs are forcing a growing number of students to choose between paying for rent or tuition. Colleges are failing to meet the needs of marginalized students. Source: www.truth-out.org “homeless college students remain institutionally overlooked and no reliable nationwide… Continue reading
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Tam Hunt: Synchronicity As a Signpost to Deeper Meanings
Source: www.noozhawk.com “A synchronicity is, essentially, a meaningful coincidence. Something happens in the world around us that seems to defy probability and “normal” explanations, and due to its correspondence in some manner with our mindset at the time it becomes… Continue reading
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Creation and Food in Old Norse Mythology – Medievalists.net
Not surprisingly, as we can ascertain by reading the Bible and many other religious and mythological texts of the past, also in Norse beliefs food and fecundity were central elements in the origin of all things (Creation and Food in… Continue reading
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Where is machine intelligence going? What do super intelligences really want?
Let’s face it, humans are pretty intelligent. Most people would not argue with this. We spend a large majority of our lives trying to become MORE intelligent. Some of us spend nearly three decades of our lives in school, learning… Continue reading
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WIRED: Have a Drone? Check This Map Before You Fly It
The popularity of drones is climbing quickly among companies, governments and citizens alike. But the rules surrounding where, when and why you can fly an unmanned aerial vehicle aren’t very clear. The FAA has tried to assert control and insist… Continue reading
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Why Philosophy Matters
Ever since Thales, Philosophy has had a reputation for being irrelevant and remote from the concerns of the world. Thales, it will be recalled, was reputed– by Plato in the Theatetus –to have fa… Source: larvalsubjects.wordpress.com Continue reading
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Henry Corbin the Paradox of Monotheism
Henry Corbin sought to synthesize in one study these three works: The first was “The Paradox of Monotheism,” which was written for 1976 session of Eranos, where the theme was “The One and the Multiple.” The second was on the… Continue reading
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Watch the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfold online
Time-lapse heat map tracks social media conversation. Source: stream.aljazeera.com Continue reading
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Papal First: Francis Visits Pentecostal Church
Pope Francis has become the first pope to visit a Pentecostal church, pressing his outreach to evangelicals who represent Catholicism’s greatest competition for Christian souls around the globe… Source: abcnews.go.com “Someone will be surprised: ‘The pope went to visit the… Continue reading
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Infographics
The evolution of #technology in the #classroom #education #learning (The evolution of #technology in the #classroom. The future of #education? Source: www.pinterest.com Continue reading
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Still, a Colonial Palestine
From The New Republic, an overview of Israel as colonial power and Palestinians as the colonized. Colonial regimes breed anti-colonial resistance. It has been happening since Biblical times. Sometimes, the resistance takes an ugly form. Think of the Algerian or Irish… Continue reading
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Marvel Announces New Star Wars Titles From All-Star Teams
Marvel has announced a new ongoing Star Wars book by Jason Aaron and John Cassaday, plus titles focusing on the stories of Darth Vader and Princess Leia. Source: comicsalliance.com Continue reading

