Keith “Maggie” Brown
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This company is going to be the Starbucks of iced coffee
I have seen the future of iced coffee. There I was, wandering the grocery-store aisles—when suddenly, next to the kombucha, opposite the rotisserie chickens, I spotted something I never thought I’d live to see. A blue and white carton—like the… Continue reading
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Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick
A well-designed office is a happy office. As facilities managers strive to save space and cash, they’re reshuffling desks and fiddling with temperature gauges. All of which has an impact on workers’ performance. Open-plan offices may make some kinds of collaboration easier, but are they more conducive… Continue reading
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What Is The Isleworth Mona Lisa?
Two years before the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the aging artist was visited by Cardinal Luigi d’Aragona to survey his works. A diary written by the Cardinal’s secretary suggests da Vinci showcased a Mona Lisa portrait different than the… Continue reading
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Getting Out: The Journey Out of Prison
Nationally, American prisons release the equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston every year. Source: www.truth-out.org Continue reading
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No Hate, No Fear: The State of Black Music in the US
Black music sounds the way it does because musicians are not at the table trying to make 21st century music. Musicians need to stop hating and get busy creating music that speaks to this generation. Source: www.truth-out.org An interesting plea… Continue reading
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Knowledge Isn’t Power
Why does ignorance rule in policy debates? Source: www.nytimes.com Are we as societies even capable of taking good policy advice? Continue reading
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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
