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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. We think racism will just die out with older generations.…
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James Joyce — Modern Psychonaut – disinformation
James Joyce’s influence on Psychonaut Culture Sourced through Scoop.it from: disinfo.com
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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
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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 warming? Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com
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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, unused theater in Dallas, she was psyched! “We were excited,…
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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 gender… “…I wanted to draw attention to the fact that…
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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 showing him pull a gun on a crowd of teens at…
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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
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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 Norcia, ensconced in the St. Benedict Monastery in central Italy.…
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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 After 27 months of upgrade, the Large Hadron Collider gears up for…
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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 life in prison without the possibility of parole for his…
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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 silencing the debate over identity politics. Sourced through Scoop.it from:…
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EARTHWORKS | EPA study reveals fracking pollutes water
“Today EPA confirmed what communities living with fracking have known for years, fracking pollutes drinking water,” said Earthworks Policy Director Lauren Pagel. She continued, “Now the Obama administration, Congress, and state governments must act on that information to protect our drinking water, and stop perpetuating the oil and gas industry’s…
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The US government could count those killed by police, but it’s chosen not to | Rashad Robinson
We’ve had the authority to collect and publish data on police use of force for 20 years. We can’t wait another 20 for transparency or accountability Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com
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Resident evil: Godzilla made official Japanese citizen
The reptilian antihero gets civic papers granting special residency for watching over the people of Tokyo (and boosting tourism) Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.theguardian.com
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The photographer subculture inside Fallout, GTA and Left 4 Dead
The rise of in-game photography has left people asking: when is a screenshot a photograph and is it ever art? Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.hopesandfears.com Ontology of the virtual work of art… photography within games.
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Texas Bans Bans: Adam Briggle quoted by @Newsweek
“For the past century, cities in Texas have had courts and the state recognize their power to govern themselves, with the understanding that the city knows best how to protect its way of life and its citizens,” says Adam Briggle, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas in…
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The Political Roots of Widening Inequality
Elites have changed the very rules by which the economy runs — and not in a good way. Sourced through Scoop.it from: prospect.org Robert Reich amending his standard interpretation of inequality to more properly include how plutocrats have reconstructed social norms in the Society of Control to benefit the elites…
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