Keith “Maggie” Brown
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The Myth of Complementary Protein
Big thanks to my good brother Dušan B. who posted this piece to his FB wall. Recently, I was teaching a nutrition class and describing the adequacy of plant-based diets to meet human nutritional needs. A woman raised her hand and… Continue reading
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Madness and (American) Civilization
In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, pathologizing of normal behaviors, Big Pharma corruption of psychiatry, and the adverse effects… Continue reading
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How Many Teeth Does a Snail Have?
Turns out, they have 2,640 teeth! I also could have titled this post, “What is the sound of one snail eating?” Really cool to listen to the Soundcloud of snail chomping its grass. She was 34, on a trip to… Continue reading
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35 Random Corners Of The Internet You Should Visit When You Need A Break
I have used a few of these. They definitely come in handy when trying to break free of what has gotten your head in a tight grip… Bookmark this for when you’re having a bad day or when you just… Continue reading
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Crop circles demystified: how the patterns are created – Telegraph
Numbers of the destructive crop designs have fallen dramatically this year, with just 15 being counted in July compared to 50 the previous year. In the past, the most ambitious crop circles have attracted tourists from around the world, sparked… Continue reading
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“You look like a cocaine dealer” | YouTube
Bill O’Reilly to Prof. Marc Lamont Hill… egads. At least Dr. Hill gets O’Reilly to admit to being a coke head. 🙂 Related articles The Sad Reality of White-on-White Violence (keithwaynebrown.com) Racial Profiling, Racial Stereotypes, and the Irrationality Of White Supremacy… Continue reading
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What’s Wrong With Business And The Economy | Business Insider
This sort of thinking is the very definition of what Martin Heidegger means by treating human beings or any kind of natural being as a “standing reserve.” …American corporations, which are richer and more profitable than they have ever been… Continue reading
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Buddhist Response To Terror
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Daodejing 38 Redux (keithwaynebrown.com) Becoming a Buddhist (prixiescrib.wordpress.com) The Face of Buddhist Terror (freedomnewsgroup.com) Wirathu: The Face Of Buddhist Terror – OpEd (eurasiareview.com) Continue reading
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Looking for “Adams” and “Eves”
Hundreds of thousands of years ago—when people still lived in small hunter-gatherer bands, when it’s not even clear they were totally anatomically modern (though they probably were)—something happened in the human genome. Somewhere in Africa, a man carried a Y… Continue reading
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Article: Scientists love to hate greens, because what greens say matters
…many scientists suggest that human progress, understood in such a way, cannot reach ever greater heights. Indeed, the impacts of environmental shocks, food shortages, or technological developments may cause civilisation to break down. Martin Rees’s Our Final Century, Jared Diamond’s Collapse and Stephen… Continue reading
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Neuromorphics: Engineering the Shape of Thinking
ANALOGIES change. Once, it was fashionable to describe the brain as being like the hydraulic systems employed to create pleasing fountains for 17th-century aristocrats’ gardens. As technology moved on, first the telegraph network and then the telephone exchange became the… Continue reading
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I Love My Job (Animated) | Action Figure Therapy – YouTube
Okay… NSFW, but hilarious! Thanks to Ronnie P. for pointing me in the direction of this great bunch of videos. Action Figure Therapy’s Jungle explains why he loves his job so much. And he also describes an intimate encounter with… Continue reading
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Socrates was Right – Part 2
And so was the laughing Buddha! A piece from the Atlantic sent to me by my good brother Griffen R. This is a companion piece to two other reblogs: Obviously it expands on the shorter Economist article I reblogged early this… Continue reading
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