Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Art Is Vital
The best education facilitates artistic voice and creative habits of mind. Continue reading
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The Case Against Mix-and-Match Spirituality
Religious institutions force members to grapple with hard ideas, to interact with different kinds of people, and to receive the wisdom of the ages. Continue reading
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Everything We Know About Facebook’s Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
It was probably legal. But was it ethical? Continue reading
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Dracula Begins
Luke Evans as Vlad Tepes aka Dracula. Continue reading
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I Sent All My Text Messages in Calligraphy for a Week
And here’s what I learned. Continue reading
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What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong
Keith Wayne Brown’s insight: Innovation, disruption, and the society of control:The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.… Continue reading
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Dangerous Minds
FAD GADGET Continue reading
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The Ultra-Right-Wing State Nobody Mentions
Quick! Name the state that’s been ground zero for all issues ultra-conservative. It’s not Texas or Arizona… Continue reading
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The $124,421 Man — Matter — Medium
How to pay off a mountain of student debt in six (long) years Continue reading
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Philosophy In the Town Square
A nice little piece by Jack Russell Weinstein: Public philosophy is a practice; it has an internal logic and intrinsic standards of success. Academic philosophy is only a success if something new is brought to the table, if the researcher contributes meaningfully… Continue reading
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Skin Aflame – A Poem and an Abstract
For that beautiful youth Health in your hands… Thanksgiving! For me let there be An intercession! Another deep night Called to this vigil Not by a soul on fire With the compulsion To peer into Abyss But awake, alert Beneath the harsh… Continue reading
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Baltimore’s Water Wheel Keeps On Turning, Pulling In Tons Of Trash
It looks like a cross between an old grain mill, a covered wagon and a spaceship: a giant, solar-powered wheel that sucks in bags, bottles and other detritus from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Continue reading
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The Writings On The Wall Put in Perspective
OKGO’s new video… And a conversation including the making of it over at NPR This video is all about perspective; the illusions are real, so to speak, and that’s what makes this jaw-dropping. Perspective images such as something called the… Continue reading
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The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains
A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bullet points, sign-ups went through the roof. Here… Continue reading
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How Much Room Do We Need To Supply The Entire World With Solar Electricity? | IFLScience
In 2009, the total global electricity consumption was 20,279,640 GWh. The sun creates more energy than that in one hour. The tricky part is collecting that energy and converting it into useful electricity with solar panels. How much area would… Continue reading
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Our twin presiding deities: irony and violence
The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria offers a near perfect example of both the death of historical memory and the collapse of critical thinking in the United States. It also signifies the emergence of a… Continue reading
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Conservatives, liberals, and the importance of brand names
In a new study published in the journal Psychological Science, Vishal Singh of New York University’s Stern School of Business and his colleagues apply an ever-growing body of research on the psychological traits of liberals and conservatives to their consumer choices.… Continue reading
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