Category: Whatever
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NFL’s Shielded Barbarism Exposes Racism in U.S.
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: A few days after the 2015 Super Bowl XLIX, during the ESPN Radio Mike & Mike sports talk show, Mike Greenberg returned to the debate over Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, while also mentioning New England Patriots Rob Gronkowski‘s appearance on ABC’s…
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The 6 Grand Illusions That Keep Us Enslaved – disinformation
We live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from planted impulses to become someone or something that we are not. This is no accident. Source: disinfo.com
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Climate Change Is Violence
Climate change is global-scale violence against places and species, as well as against human beings. Source: truth-out.org
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The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart — The Physics arXiv Blog — Medium
The Paradoxes That Threaten To Tear Modern Cosmology Apart – The Physics arXiv Blog – Medium Revolutions in science often come from the study of seemingly unresolvable paradoxes. An intense focus on these paradoxes, and their… Source: medium.com
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“Raw Intellectual Talent” and Academia’s Gender and Race Gaps
Cultural beliefs and stereotypes that associate men but not women with “raw intellectual talent” can help explain the differing gender gaps across various academic disciplines, according to a new study by Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton), Andrei Cimpian (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Meredith Meyer (Ottterbein), and Edward Freeland (Princeton) published today in Science. A similar account appears to…
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Tiger Rag.
Originally posted on Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul.: © Art Tatum. Pure undiluted genius. Sheer magic. ___________________________ © 2015 Arvin da Braga. All Rights Reserved.
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# HISTORY /// “A Palimpsest Called Paris: Schuiten and Peeters’s Urban Fictions” for DAMn 48
Originally posted on The Funambulist: Les Halles de Baltard et le Paris perdu. Jour by François Schuiten, 2012 © Schuiten / Casterman A PALIMPSEST CALLED PARIS: FRANCOIS SCHUITEN AND BENOIT PEETERS’S URBAN FICTIONS Written for DAMN Magazine 48 (January 2015) Originally a palimpsest was a parchment scraped numerous times to allow new…
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Socrates contra dogmatism, skepticism, and agnosticism
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. How, in all things, does one steer clear of dogmatism without being a skeptic or becoming an agnostic? The dogmatist is anyone who claims to know for certain, the skeptic (of the kind I have in view) being doubtful about what we can know for sure. If we are…
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Undoing
Originally posted on simonhlilly: UNDOING Sitting without time, Outwith its wild unheard roar. Moments snowmelt vanishing, Undoing forgiven, unknowing acquiesced. Oh, Birds of dawn, the hills are laced with cold. Blue air placid, blanket weighed. A roll of mist is daybreak, A disassembly of constellations. Sky ceiling lifts and breathes…
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‘The intensity of a conviction’: Doubt, certitude, and provisionality
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. A few days ago, I came across this statement by the notable biologist Peter Medawar: ‘the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.’ What he says is true: we may have a strong, firm belief that P without…
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Does Work Undermine our Freedom? – disinformation
Society, law and economic necessity all conspire to make work a near-essential requirement. Would it be better if this w Source: disinfo.com
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Activist Publishes Book of Hate Mail From Bible Believing Christians, Bible Believers Respond by – You Guessed It
At the suggestion of appalled supporters, Bonnie Weinstein finally compiled a selection of choice missives into a book, To the Far Right Christian Hater: You can be a good speller or a hater, but you can’t be both. I was a conservative Evangelical for many years. Over that time, I…
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Vermont’s New Motto Is In Latin; Conservatives Lose Their Sh*t And Bash Latinos | FreakOutNation
Source: freakoutnation.com Good heavens.
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The Single Best Method For Class (Or Any Kind of) Participation (Thx SciFi Genius Samuel Delany)
Source: www.hastac.org Raise your hand. Show you are here.
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Wise Mind – A Case for the Integration of Subjective Experience with Objective Reality in the Age of Fragmentation
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Abstract The manner in which reality is perceived and conceptualized has profound implications for many levels of human existence. Source: www.mundusimaginalis.org
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Be employable, study philosophy
The discipline teaches you how to think clearly, a gift that can be applied to just about any line of work Source: www.salon.com Because it delivers real skills, philosophy doesn’t go out of fashion the way the vague, trendy subjects do. The University of Windsor just announced it’s closing its Centre…
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These Computer Programs “Feel You”
Rhafi Khatchadhourian at the New Yorker takes a look at new developments in recognition software that are game changers on computers interpreting our emotive reactions to what we are reading/viewing on our electronic devices. Like every company in this field, Affectiva relies on the work of Paul Ekman, a research…
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what the fundamentalist believes
Originally posted on coromandal: Mitra Tabrizian The most dangerous fundamentalism today is banking. Nevertheless, there are other fundamentalisms that harm us, as there always will be: religious, political, racial etc. Salman Rushdie has a beef with the religious variety; he wrote a book which caused a fatwa and sent him underground…
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