Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Why Income Inequality Is Going to Get Catastrophically Worse
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Inequality is endemic to the core structure of an America that operates more as a plutocracy than a democracy. See on www.alternet.org Continue reading
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Elysia chlorotica, a solar-powered sea slug is an energy-efficient gene thief
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Elysia chlorotica is a “solar-powered” marine sea slug that sequesters and retains photosynthetically active chloroplasts from the algae it eats and, remarkably, has incorporated algal genes into its own genetic code. It is emerald… Continue reading
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Venice votes on split from Rome
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsA referendum begins in Venice and the surrounding region on whether to become independent from Italy. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: There are quite a few regions around the globe where citizens are discussing true regional… Continue reading
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Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from Publisher (1912)
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsGertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls ‘dense poems and fictions, often devoid of plot or dialogue,’ with the result being that ‘commercial publishers slighted her experimental writings…See… Continue reading
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The Reason Songs Have Choruses
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsThe secret lies in how your brain processes sound: People love repetition.See on www.theatlantic.com Continue reading
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Here are some of the best tweets mocking the “White Man March”
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Twitter righteously and hilariously mocks a bunch of aggrieved white supremacists See on www.salon.com Continue reading
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The Unexpected Way Philosophy Majors Are Changing The World Of Business
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Dr. Damon Horowitz quit his technology job and go a Ph.D. in philosophy — and he thinks you should too. “If you are at all disposed to question what’s around you, you’ll start to… Continue reading
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A Sneak Peek At The Comic Book MOOC Get a Grasp – moocnewsandreviews.com
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A preview of the Comic Book MOOC, Get a Grasp! A Primer Course for Getting Your Comic Started, which starts March 23. Interview with Patrick Yurick, CEO of Making Comics (dotcom) and one of… Continue reading
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Revolutionaries add new social media networks to tech toolkit
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions With increasing surveillance concerns in places like Ukraine, how are protesters using technology to ensure private, secure communication? See on www.pbs.org Continue reading
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Dark matter looks more and more likely after new gamma-ray analysis
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Scientists describe as ‘extremely interesting’ new analysis that makes case for gamma rays tracing back to Wimp particles Not long after the Fermi Gamma-ray SpaceTelescope took to the sky in 2008, astrophysicists noticed that… Continue reading
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Textimony 20140311
Laboring at life as a distracted employee? Embrace existence as loving diversion! Let go of the ordinary: Allow yourself to be out-of-order. Continue reading
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Textimony 20140309
“To carry communication in all its possibilities closer to reality is the daily labor of philosophy.” Karl Jaspers The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (175) Continue reading
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Textimony 20140306
Free to doubt this human frailty –a gasp, a tear, a touch, a laugh– forsaken of any certainty: at play in wonder. Let-go. Love. Live. Continue reading
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Barely Keeping Up in TV’s New Golden Age – NYTimes.com
The growing intellectual currency of television has altered the cultural conversation in fundamental ways. Water cooler chatter is now a high-minded pursuit, not just a way to pass the time at work. The three-camera sitcom with a laugh track has… Continue reading
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How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine | The Nation
Mechanical Turk is the innovation behind “crowdworking,” the low-wage virtual labor phenomenon that has reinvented piecework for the digital age. Created by Amazon in 2005, it remains one of the central platforms—markets, really—where crowd-based labor is bought and sold. As… Continue reading
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Mona Lisa stopped smiling – A Conversation on the Phenomenology of News | Circa Blog
If the goal of the news is to make sense of the world — then we must “model” the shape of the world with our stories. I would argue many traditional tools and processes reflect the world, but don’t model… Continue reading
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Darling visions
…this is just a beginning your fault lines on the wall waiting to break a part of the night first thinking best thinking purity of complettion suddenly lost and found among the allied forces who invited days’ dark depressions– meaningless… Continue reading
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Burned, Bombed, Beaten
Education is under attack worldwide. The report issued by the United Nations speaks to conditions in the most physically violent locales around the globe. We should pay close heed to these. Because they are the physical counterpart of the psychosocial… Continue reading
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