Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The Dignity of Solitude
In a post two months back, I listed the four moral attitudes that Jaspers holds as the necessary conditions of existential communication. At the top is “the dignity of solitude.” I collect here a few insights on solitude in faith… Continue reading
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Entranced by Reality | The American Conservative
This incisive portrait graces the cover of Robert Zaretsky’s smart, galvanizing new book, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. Zaretsky’s slim volume churns between sympathetic biography, basic textual exegesis, and his own Camus-inspired reflections. The… Continue reading
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Paulo Ito, World Cup: A Brazilian street artist has created the World Cup’s first viral image.
On May 10, Brazilian artist Paulo Ito posted this mural on the doors of a schoolhouse in São Paulo’s Pompeia district. Less than a week later, it has become an international sensation, drawing huge attention on Facebook. It has also… Continue reading
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Blacks in Western Art: Gemini Sculpture With Black and White Twins a Symbol of Racial Harmony – The Root
…A particularly impressive achievement of the artist is found in the sensitively rendered heads of the figures. The intention seems to have been to racially distinguish the twins. The facial traits of the figure on the right exhibit pronounced black… Continue reading
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We Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy – Existential Comics
Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Awesome! See on existentialcomics.com Continue reading
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the FCC’s Net Neutrality Proposal
This is our chance to tell the government how to guarantee a free and open internet. Here’s a rundown of key issues so you can make your voice heard. See on www.truth-out.org Continue reading
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Here’s How Netflix Is About to Change Radically
Using Netflix will not always involve scrolling through endless lists of movies served up by genre or because you watched one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer last summer. A Netflix executive says in the future, the streaming service may… Continue reading
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Video reveals entire organism’s neurons at work
Researchers image complete nervous system in real time. See on www.nature.com Continue reading
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Deconstructing God
Can reading abstruse French theory lead to religious belief? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Always a pleasure to read Jack Caputo. “If you cease to “believe” in a particular religious creed, like Calvinism or Catholicism, you have changed your mind and… Continue reading
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Phenomenology: a beginner’s understanding
Originally posted on ann e michael: http://www.themontrealreview.com/pics2/mereau-ponty-image.jpg “Phenomenology is the attempt to discover the origin of the object at the very centre of our experience…[to] describe the emergence of being and…how, paradoxically, there is for us an in-itself.” Maurice… Continue reading
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Phenomenology & Practice
Phenomenology & Practice is a human science journal dedicated to the study of the lived experience of a broad range of human practices. See on www.phandpr.org Continue reading
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The future soldier: part human, part machine
The U.S. military has big plans for wearable tech in the coming years. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: The Soldier 2.0 See on www.cnbc.com Continue reading
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We are dead stars | the Atlantic
The buddy-friend-guy just played this for me. Really nice account of our relation to the cosmic order. Every atom in our bodies was fused in an ancient star. NASA astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller explains how the iron in our blood… Continue reading
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Even Conservative Judges Can’t Deny the Constitutional Logic of Same-Sex Marriage – The Daily Beast
Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that the states on the vanguard of marriage equality would be the deepest red states? But here we are: From December’s decision in Utah to the past two weeks in Arkansas… Continue reading
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Mutants and Mystics
Cool book… Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal Jeffrey J. Kripal Offers a brilliantly insightful account of how comic book heroes have helped their creators and fans alike explore and express a wealth of paranormal experiences… Continue reading
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Injecting Computation Everywhere
At this year’s SXSW Conference, Stephen Wolfram introduced Wolfram Language. Now, video of his presentation shows some of the profound implications of this new technology. Continue reading
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Voids & Supervoids in the Universe
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Cosmic voids, and supervoids, are large volumes of space that are devoid of matter. This includes normal matter, in the form of galaxies, and dark matter. Initially, astronomers were not sure if the voids… Continue reading
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