Keith “Maggie” Brown
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ArtiZen Threads
My good friend Rodney has started a marvelous small business creating some great products using hand woven fabrics from artisanal weavers in Vietnam and Guatemala. [Such as this Meditation Cushion pictured here.[ Brothers and sisters of the Ether, you know… Continue reading
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▶ How Does Night Vale Confront Us With the Unknown? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
Night Vale\’s masterful balance of mystery, humor, and horror has made it the #1 podcast in America. Night Vale employs the techniques of H.P. Lovecraft, specifically his masterful manipulation of THE UNKNOWN, but the medium chosen makes it literally impossible… Continue reading
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▶ Do “Digital Natives” Exist? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
Good episode that touches upon a few things I have been thinking about since earlier in the year. Is there such a thing as a \”DIGITAL NATIVE\”? Some experts have suggested a clear divide between \”digital native\” (the Millennial tech experts)… Continue reading
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How to Piss Off Your Barista — I. M. H. O. — Medium
I have been working in the coffee industry now for a decade. I am not a world champion barista, but I am capable. All 10 of the items in this list are spot on and great. But number 3 is… Continue reading
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How Wall Street Power Brokers Are Designing the Future of Public Education as a Money-Making Machine
Financial Capitalism–subordinating all processes of production toward amassing the greatest amount of excess monetary value through constantly changing financial networks–has nowhere left to turn besides the local after absorbing all international, national, and regional systems of output. And we should… Continue reading
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Nancy Gibbs on Why Pope Francis Is TIME’s Person of the Year 2013 | TIME.com
Picking Francis I, with Edward Snowden a close runner up, demonstrates how the power-hungry Financial Capitalist networks of the Society of Control are being challenged by both the most traditional channels of discourse as well as the most anti-imperialist channels.… Continue reading
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7 Must-Read Books on Education | Brain Pickings
Education is something we’re deeply passionate about, but the fact remains that today’s dominant formal education model is a broken system based on antiquated paradigms. While much has been said and written about education reform over the past couple of… Continue reading
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Looking for MURAKAMI | YouTube
…considered an important figure in postmodern literature. The Guardian praised him as “among the world\’s greatest living novelists” for his works and achievements. Murakami was born in Japan during the post–World War II baby boom… …Since childhood, Murakami has been… Continue reading
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A Congressman Asks for Adjuncts’ Stories, and Responses Pour In | Vitae
“This eForum is an opportunity for adjuncts and other contingent faculty to inform the Congress about what’s happening on the ground with higher education,” said Miller, a Democrat, in a news release. “I think there is a huge lack of… Continue reading
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Kanye West: Easy Target for the Daily Currant
I like the Daily Currant because unlike the Onion, the stuff is written just close enough to reality to make you actually buy it for a bit. I figured Kanye actually said this stuff–he has said crap not that far… Continue reading
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Sustainable Knowledge by Robert Frodeman
My good friend and colleague, Robert Frodeman, has a new book coming out from Palgrave Pivot. Here is a little taste from the Introduction to Sustainable Knowledge A Parable… In Walden, Thoreau tells the story of an Indian who goes… Continue reading
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Colleges are teaching economics backwards
…here’s one temporary fix for introductory economics: teach it backwards. Reversing the order in which introductory economic classes are taught today might be the easiest way to respond to the crisis in undergraduate education. Plus, the history of how it… Continue reading
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Beware of the Philosopher: the Cynics | History of Philosophy
This is a nice quick lecture on the Ancient Cynics. Since the speaker references “The Bare Necessities” from The Jungle Book, I also include that song below. You might watch it before you listen to the lecture. In this episode we… Continue reading
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Red Headed Gypsy Lover
Yea!!! A new video by one of my favorite local artists, Collin Hauser! Listen to this song, visit his site. Get to know him. Continue reading
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Silencing the Mind Will Be Heeded by the Cosmos
I don’t really think old Laozi actually ever said this. But, it is a great quote. Related articles John Cage: Silence yet not silencing (pilimi200.wordpress.com) Silence the music (sounddesign2013.wordpress.com) Daodejing 1 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 35 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 38 (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 71 (keithwaynebrown.com) Continue reading
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The Logic of Stupid Poor People | tressiemc
Great article on an issue that is close to my heart as a person who was born poor and has done many ridiculous things as well as savvy things to get out of perception of poverty. I know that being… Continue reading
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Willingness and Will
A great philosopher–like Plato or Kant, Laozi or Nietzsche–does not give doctrines for memorization, provide answers to life’s problems, nor demonstrate proofs that will forever explain being human. That such has often been taken away from the greatest minds in… Continue reading
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