Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Generation X gets really old: How do slackers have a midlife crisis? | Salon.com
…There is a reason, says historian and generational expert Neil Howe, why members of Generation X have been cast as perpetual adolescents. Their parents – “the Silent Generation” – originated the stereotypical midlife breakdown, and they came of age, and… Continue reading
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Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany | Books | theguardian.com
A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years. The tales… Continue reading
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And When You Lose Control: Drawing by Davit Yukhanyan
Faith is Torment | the Art and Design Blog puts up a gallery of great interest: A drawing of a goat made of hundreds of smaller drawings. Click the jump to examine sections of the drawing and see what parts make… Continue reading
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Capricious God Violently Shakes Ant Farm Day After Bestowing Orange Slices Upon Colony | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
APPLETON, WI—Less than 24 hours after their god bestowed two delicious orange slices upon them, local ants reported the capricious deity had picked up the entire ant farm in which they live and shaken it violently, leaving many to wonder… Continue reading
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Things I’ll never be again | Zaphnath-Paaneah
Some most excellent poetry from my beloved brother on the Way, Joseph Paul Carr. This is an exert; read the whole poem on his blog, just follow the link. Then spend some time looking around at his other works. …I… Continue reading
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Io, a Changing Moon
Like the downtown area of your favorite city and any self-respecting web site … Io‘s surface is constantly under construction. This moon of Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System’s most volcanically active body — its bizarre looking… Continue reading
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Contre temps | Vimeo
My good sister, Angela, posted this on her FB wall today. Appears that it is a student animation from France. Beautiful! Here is our graduation movie Contre temps, directed at Supinfocom Arles in 2012. We hope you will enjoy it!… Continue reading
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Watch These Robotic Plant Roots Grow Like The Real Thing [Video] | Popular Science
This robot is putting down roots. Recently at the Living Machines conference in London, researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology debuted a system of robotic roots that can grow and turn in response to stimuli in their environment, just… Continue reading
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Listening to the rain
Originally posted on Zen Flash: Because the mind is free – Listening to the rain Dripping from the leaves, The drops become One with me. ~ Dogen ~ Poetry Gardens Continue reading
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Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer | The New Yorker
Author Gary Shteyngart beta tests Google Glass… On February 23, 2013, I entered a Twitter contest run by Google to pick the first batch of Glass Explorers with the following tweet: “#ifihadglass I could dream up new ideas for the TV… Continue reading
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These are words that go together well – confused of calcutta
Wonderful book review that becomes a thoughtful piece on translation. Translators do a very hard job, and are often underappreciated. We take them for granted. Yet they perform a very important function, expressing something from one language into another, switching… Continue reading
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Ancient Fisherman of Folklore
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: Silence. Before the break of dawn, there is the pure ‘silence of nature’ as a man begins his day. There are no beeping alarm clocks, no blare of traffic, and it is… Continue reading
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Daodejing 20
#20* Sincerity’s “yes” and Flattery’s “yes”: How much difference Is there between them? Good and evil, how much difference is there between them? What people fear, they cannot not-fear. [1] So vast; how never endless it is! People who are busy… Continue reading
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Acrylic Storm – Michelle Manly
Texas-based artist Michelle Manley explores the intensity of nature through dramatic acrylic paintings. In her Storm series, she uses earthy color palettes to create landscapes filled with dark clouds swirling together into distant and powerful storms. As the severe weather… Continue reading
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World’s greatest bookshops | Lonely Planet
Bookshops are a traveller’s best friend: they provide convenient shelter and diversion in bad weather, they’re a reliable source of maps, notebooks, and travel guides, they often host readings and other cultural events, and if you raced through your lone… Continue reading
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Picturing Doomsday: All the Asteroids that Could Destroy Life on Earth
It’s no surprise that NASA is keeping track of all potentially hazardous objects, or PHOs, that surround our planet. If it’s closer than 4.6 million miles away and larger than about 350 feet in diameter, NASA’s watching it. And if… Continue reading
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Ayn Rand – Funny Lady
John Hodgman over at the New Yorker has a grand old time sending up that dreadful pseudo-philosopher Ayn Rand. Sit back and enjoy how much you will laugh out loud… My moral philosophy is founded on the idea that there… Continue reading
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