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#Fracketeering: Solutions for the Society of Control
My colleague Adam Briggle has been very active intellectually and politically with local bans on fracking in my hometown of Denton. In a dialog we had recently, I mentioned to him that fracking bans–and the ban on bans–could be read differently… Continue reading
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The Tribe Official TRAILER (2015)
Ukrainian director Grigoriy Fesenko’s “The Tribe”–about a deaf teenager struggling to fit into the boarding school system–happens in sign language with no subtitles. Looks brilliant. Continue reading
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Buddhism and Psychedelic Methods
Austin Hill Shaw examines the nature of creativity, cosmology and psychedelic communion. Shaw practices in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition, “taking refuge in the Buddhist path” since 2002. Rather than seeing the use of psychedelic substances as antithetical to a Buddhist… Continue reading
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International Peace Scholarship for Emmanuela Opoku
Emmanuela Opoku, my wonderful colleague and fellow in @UNT_Philosophy‘s PhD program, has been awarded a $5,000 International Peace Scholarship from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Opoku, a native of Ghana, came to North Texas in the 2014 fall semester to further her… Continue reading
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Further down into the microcosm
Emilie Ringe stands next to the new Titan Themis gives researchers the ability to create three-dimensional structural reconstructions and carry out electric field mapping of subnanoscale materials. © Fair use for educational purposes Rice University, renowned for nanoscale science, has… Continue reading
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SCOTUS: Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
Still waiting for the mandate of when this will go into effect but, as Justice Anthony Kennedy said, ” The constitution promises liberty to all within its reach.” Expect folks like Gov. Abbott of Texas and Gov. Jindal of Louisiana… Continue reading
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The racism of millennials
The danger in invoking the myth of the presupposed racial tolerance of millennials (and subsequent generations) is that it works to absolve today’s society of actively confronting and undoing the damage of the legacy of slavery, segregation and institutionalized racism.… Continue reading
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James Joyce — Modern Psychonaut – disinformation
James Joyce’s influence on Psychonaut Culture Sourced through Scoop.it from: disinfo.com Continue reading
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Leonard Nimoy’s son beams up ‘Mr. Spock’ documentary
Adam Nimoy is unique. He’s the only person who can claim to be both the first Trekkie and the son of Spock, the Star Trek Enterprise’s science officer. Not that that dual existe… Sourced through Scoop.it from: mashable.com Continue reading
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Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate
The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global… Continue reading
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IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME: ART CONSPIRACY 2005 – 2015
Originally posted on Human2Human: Texas Theater in Dallas. Photo credit: Art Conspiracy DALLAS: In 2005 when public relations professional Cari Weinberg got a call to help get the word out about an artsy, one-night fundraiser being held in an old,… Continue reading
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Heather Cassils: the transgender bodybuilder who attacks heaps of clay
By playing with body art, gay male aesthetics and extreme physical training – from weightlifting to martial arts – the artist has adapted his own female body into a series of powerful physical shapes that challenge any notion of binary… Continue reading
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Friday Night Fights: Racism in Texas
A pool party in McKinney, Texas, on Friday, June 05, ended with police terrorizing kids in the Dallas suburb. A police officer with the City of McKinney–Eric Casebolt–has come under special scrutiny and been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced… Continue reading
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The City of Marinaleda
With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.filmsforaction.org Continue reading
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Ora et Labora, #Prayer and #Work
St. Benedict summarized the entirety of his rule in two practices, contemplating with the heart and laboring with the hands. “The monastic life is very plain and ordinary,” says Father Cassian Folsom, the founder and prior of the Monks of… Continue reading
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Supersymmetry or Monopoles?
Physicists around the world (myself included) are hoping that this week will mark the beginning of a new era of discovery. And not, as some fear, the end of particle physics as we know it. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.iflscience.com… Continue reading
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Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison | WIRED
ROSS ULBRICHT CONCEIVED of his Silk Road black market as an online utopia beyond law enforcement’s reach. Now he’ll spend the rest of his life firmly in its grasp, locked inside a federal penitentiary. On Friday Ulbricht was sentenced to… Continue reading
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I was a liberal adjunct professor. My liberal students didn’t scare me at all.
The problem isn’t the substance of student complaints — the problem is that university lecturers are so terrified of the effect student complaints could have. That’s a problem to be solved by universities having faculty members’ backs, not by somehow… Continue reading
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