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  • Americans Learn To Stop Worrying And Love Torture, Ctd

    Originally posted on The Dish: Many atheists are surely passing around this post. One writes: Dear Andrew (welcome back!), Chris et al: What jumped out at me in the chart accompanying your post is that the ONLY group of Americans in which a majority do consider US torture justified is people…

  • Big Ideas for Little Kids

    Philosophy is not usually part of a second-grade curriculum, yet this documentary accompanies a group of college students who lead a series of philosophy classes for six- and seven-year-olds.  The second graders learn some of the basic rules for having a philosophical discussion, from what it means to be a…

  • Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Season 5 Episode 7 | Jimmy Fallon

    https://www.youtube.com/v/UepDy0-H8jc?fs=1&hl=fr_FR FULL EPISODE : The Unsinkable Legend: Part 1 it’s like jimmy hanging out with his favorite uncle. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Season 5 Episode 7 | Jimmy Fallon Comedians in Cars Getting… Source: www.youtube.com LOL

  • ‘Plato at the Googleplex,’ by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

    Goldstein is a novelist and a teacher of philosophy… [who] has written a love letter to Plato, whom she regards as having given us philosophy. He is, in her view, as relevant today as he ever was — which is to say, very. To demonstrate his continuing hipness, her expository…

  • ‘A Philosophy of Walking,’ by Frédéric Gros

    Less organized than a sport and more profound than a voyage, a long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the sublime. Source: www.nytimes.com Less organized than a sport and more profound than a voyage, a long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the sublime.

  • Amazing Folk Tale Map Reveals Deep Links Between Cultures

    “ Researchers used techniques from genetics to explain culture.” Source: uk.businessinsider.com Extremely interesting

  • 5 Tips For Making Great Coffee

    Freese Coffee Co. have put together an interactive diagram, For Better Coffee, listing 5 tips for making great coffee.  Follow the bean through sourcing, grinding, measurements, and brew times for the perfect cup of coffee.  There have been a lot… Source: scasa.co.za From farm to cup, don’t screw it up!

  • Portland State University creates zero-g espresso cups for space – Gizmag

    To help the zero-g coffee aficionado, Portland State University’s (PSU) Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science has developed a microgravity espresso cup that drinks like its earthbound… Source: www.gizmag.com Perfect espresso anywhere. 

  • Peacock’s Cry of Soul’s Splendour

    Image via http://chronoperates.deviantart.com/art/Art-Nouveau-Peacock-272202614 I.“A Sufi legend, likely of Persian origin, suggests that god created spirit in the form of a peacock. Source: symbolreader.net

  • That’s rich! Why so many wealthy Americans think they’re middle class

    Recent remarks from Treasury Secretary Jack Lew help shed light on a troubling phenomenon Source: www.salon.com this should not be a surprise  

  • Making It About Gender

    by Michelle Dean The news about humanity is never very good when it comes from Reddit, is it? Today’s contribution comes via an editorial at WIRED. Its authors, Elena Glassman, Neha Narula and Jean… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com It does matter 

  • Masculine Energy

    by Phoebe Maltz Bovy I can’t stop thinking about Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart’s essay identifying with macho or misogynistic male authors and protagonists: I’d always understood I was a she, and I nev… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com The protagonist’s gaze

  • America’s Tortured Conscience

    Originally posted on The Dish: by Will Wilkinson The Washington Post reports: A majority of Americans believe that the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were justified, even as about half the public says the treatment amounted to torture, according to a new…

  • Emails Of The Day

    Emails Of The Day

    Originally posted on The Dish: A reader writes: From early 2006 to late 2009, I was a part of the post-9/11 corporate-security state serving as an intelligence analyst. This is not a fact in which I take much pride. When the Abu Ghraib scandal became augmented with the information that…

  • Government Fails When It Fails to Be Government

    Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Let’s start with a little game. Fill in the blanks: Government interventions over the past four decades have yielded a cascade of perverse incentives, bureaucratic diktats, and economic pressures that together are forcing [_____] to sacrifice their independent professional [_____] judgment, and their…

  • A Torch for the Path to Omniscience | Lotsawa House

    This is the word-by-word commentary on the text of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminary practices entitled, ‘A Torch for the Excellent Path of Omniscience’. Source: www.lotsawahouse.org Letting-go of frustration, practicing compassion, open to the Encompassing – #liberation

  • Quantum Teleportation Reaches Farthest Distance Yet

    Physicists have teleported a light particle 15 miles (25 kilometers), making it the farthest quantum teleportation yet. Advances in quantum teleportation could lead to better Internet and communication security, and get scientists closer to developing quantum computers. About five years ago, researchers could only teleport quantum information, such as which…

  • Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification

    Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification

    Another wonderful find by my Buddy-Friend-Guy, Christopher… For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. The notoriously seedy Tenderloin has managed…