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The Stimulating History of Coffee: Why You Hear This Word Around the World
The great majority of languages borrowed their word for coffee. Unlike the words for, say, milk or water, which developed within a given language family over thousands of years, the word for coffee hopped from one language to another, and within a relatively short period of time. That’s because coffee…
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The Loving Struggle of 8-Bit Philosophy
Graphics have come a long way from the old days of Nintendo games like Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda. The graphic system itself still holds a kind of nostalgia. And the creative thinkers at Wisecrack are using that nostalgia to teach existential philosophy. By this…
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It’s Past Time to Reform Science Funding
In the decade since the National Academy of Sciences reported on the alarming difficulty scientists were facing in setting their own research directions—and declared “the time for action is now”—it’s only gotten harder for scientific upstarts to nab major grants, according to a perspective by Johns Hopkins University President Ronald Daniels published Monday. Source: www.psmag.com Really,…
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Finding Genghis Khan’s Tomb from Space
Due to the public outcry, however, none of the sites were excavated. It was an impasse: Genghis Khan’s tomb is archaeologically important; knowing its location is important for protecting it from illegal mining in the area. At the same time, due deference must be paid to those for whom the…
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Flipping the Script: Pedagogy, Theater and Radical Organizing in Schools of Poverty
there are, at this point, numerous books testifying to the dismal state of American public education in the communities, primarily of color, that have been marginalized and abandoned by our increasingly austere system. And beyond the exposés of the moral scandal of de facto educational apartheid in the contemporary United States,…
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Bill Moyers’ farewell message to young activists: ‘Over to you. Welcome to the fight’
Moyers & Company host Bill Moyers delivered a message of encouragement for young progressives in the face of seemingly harrowing odds, drawing the curtain on his 44-year broadcast career on Friday. “To this new generation I say: over to you. Welcome to the fight,” Moyers said at the conclusion of…
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The Benefits of Fewer NYPD Arrests
The slowdown also challenges the fundamental tenets of broken-windows policing, a controversial strategy championed by NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. According to the theory, which first came to prominence in a 1982 article in The Atlantic, “quality-of-life” crimes like vandalism and vagrancy help normalize criminal behavior in neighborhoods and precede more…
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Millennials Changing Money Management Forever
Over the past three years… more than $1 billion has been sunk into tech-driven personal finance companies…with a special emphasis on startups targeting young investors, complete with the user-friendly, low-cost, mobile-enabled features they crave (social responsibility is a plus, too)… One thing that shapes almost all of these concepts: They’re…
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Sacred Medicine
“…when we began working with community-health workers to take care to patients, the outcomes we all sought were much more likely to happen. Instead of asking “why don’t patients comply with our treatments?” we began to ask, “How can we accompany our patients on the road to cure or wellness…
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2015 #love
Make this a year of love: #consolation #comprehension #compassion
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In Search Of A Science Of Consciousness
One of the extraordinary and exciting claims advanced in Evan Thompson’s new book Waking, Dreaming, Being is that some meditative practices — for example the sorts of focused attention practices developed in some Buddhist traditions — can actually be thought of as techniques for attending to features of experience to…
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The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review
“After the artist Georgia O’Keeffe left New York for the mesa of New Mexico, she began signing letters to friends “from the faraway nearby”. The striking oxymoron has given Rebecca Solnit the title for her new, inspired reverie, which wanders through many kinds of elsewheres, near and far, and many…
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What Will Happen to All of That Beauty?
I tried for years to be an atheist, then an agnostic, and, after failing at both, I thought I might become a kind of religious omnivore, cobbling bits of doctrine into a patchwork spirituality that would offer inspiration, or solace in times of trouble. I couldn’t manage that either. In…
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Green Neocolonialism, Afro-Brazilian Rebellion in Brazil
The Afro-Brazilian Quilombola people are resisting the cellulose industry in Brazil and working for a post-eucalyptus reality. Source: www.truth-out.org
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Living With Half A Brain
Originally posted on The Dish: Tom Stafford considers what a woman who was born without a cerebellum — and lived a largely typical life — reveals about neuroscience: This case points to a sad fact about brain science. We don’t often shout about it, but there are large gaps in even…
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Growth from failure
Originally posted on Philosophy Impact: Philosophy Impact View original post
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Episode 010: Tam Hunt
On today’s podcast I sit down with philosopher Tam Hunt to talk about Panpsychism, a school of thought that tries to collect science and spirituality together and find a common ground… Mr. Hunt lives in Santa Barbara and runs Community Renewable Solutions LLC. Let me just cut and paste from his site:…
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