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  • This company is going to be the Starbucks of iced coffee

    I have seen the future of iced coffee. There I was, wandering the grocery-store aisles—when suddenly, next to the kombucha, opposite the rotisserie chickens, I spotted something I never thought I’d live to see. A blue and white carton—like the half-pints of milk that come on elementary school lunch trays—emblazoned…

  • Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick

    A well-designed office is a happy office. As facilities managers strive to save space and cash, they’re reshuffling desks and fiddling with temperature gauges. All of which has an impact on workers’ performance. Open-plan offices may make some kinds of collaboration easier, but are they more conducive to productivity? What’s the most irritating workplace distraction? And are those state-of-the-art workstations…

  • Getting Out: The Journey Out of Prison

    Nationally, American prisons release the equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Boston every year. Source: www.truth-out.org

  • No Hate, No Fear: The State of Black Music in the US

    Black music sounds the way it does because musicians are not at the table trying to make 21st century music. Musicians need to stop hating and get busy creating music that speaks to this generation. Source: www.truth-out.org An interesting plea from a Prince Charles Alexander.

  • Knowledge Isn’t Power

    Why does ignorance rule in policy debates? Source: www.nytimes.com Are we as societies even capable of taking good policy advice?

  • A Cultural History Of Coffee Shop Campers – Sprudge

    I camp, therefore I am. Source: sprudge.com It got so bad that a number of Sultans tried to ban people hanging out in coffee houses, on pain of death, though that might have had something to do with political unrest. These Sultanic edicts were of course unsuccessful in stopping the coffee…

  • 7 facts you should know about the Ebola outbreak

    It’s the biggest Ebola outbreak on record. Here’s the basics. Source: www.vox.com Not absolute death, but that does not mean precautions should be ignored.

  • From the Printed Comic to ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

    A comic book property like “Guardians of the Galaxy” may seem ideal for the big screen, but comics have singular pleasures of their own. Source: www.nytimes.com

  • Pinky And The Brain Have Finally Reached Their Breaking Point

    Everyone has a limit where they just stop refusing to put up with shit. Some people — like the megalomaniacal Animaniacs’ character Brain here — will put up with his compatriot Pinky’s gross incompetence for years until he snaps… as captured in the above video in all its profane glory.…

  • The Big Screen: Celebrating Miyazaki In Fort Worth | Art&Seek

    Ahead of the Lone Star Film Society’s retrospective, we talk about the Japanese animator’s lasting legacy with Dr. Marc Hairston, a UTD professor who teaches a Source: artandseek.net

  • Rent or Tuition? The Growing Student Dilemma

    Skyrocketing university costs are forcing a growing number of students to choose between paying for rent or tuition. Colleges are failing to meet the needs of marginalized students. Source: www.truth-out.org “homeless college students remain institutionally overlooked and no reliable nationwide data exists. Colleges are not required to keep data on…

  • Tam Hunt: Synchronicity As a Signpost to Deeper Meanings

    Source: www.noozhawk.com “A synchronicity is, essentially, a meaningful coincidence. Something happens in the world around us that seems to defy probability and “normal” explanations, and due to its correspondence in some manner with our mindset at the time it becomes a meaningful event.”

  • Creation and Food in Old Norse Mythology – Medievalists.net

    Not surprisingly, as we can ascertain by reading the Bible and many other religious and mythological texts of the past, also in Norse beliefs food and fecundity were central elements in the origin of all things (Creation and Food in Old Norse Mythology… Source: www.medievalists.net

  • Where is machine intelligence going? What do super intelligences really want?

    Let’s face it, humans are pretty intelligent. Most people would not argue with this. We spend a large majority of our lives trying to become MORE intelligent. Some of us spend nearly three decades of our lives in school, learning about the world. We also strive to work together in…

  • WIRED: Have a Drone? Check This Map Before You Fly It

    The popularity of drones is climbing quickly among companies, governments and citizens alike. But the rules surrounding where, when and why you can fly an unmanned aerial vehicle aren’t very clear. The FAA has tried to assert control and insist on licensing for all drone operators, while drone pilots and…

  • Why Philosophy Matters

    Ever since Thales, Philosophy has had a reputation for being irrelevant and remote from the concerns of the world.  Thales, it will be recalled, was reputed– by Plato in the Theatetus –to have fa… Source: larvalsubjects.wordpress.com

  • Henry Corbin the Paradox of Monotheism

    Henry Corbin sought to synthesize in one study these three works: The first was “The Paradox of Monotheism,” which was written for 1976 session of Eranos, where the theme was “The One and the Multiple.” The second was on the “Need for Angelogy,” which was given at the Conference organized…

  • Watch the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unfold online

    Time-lapse heat map tracks social media conversation. Source: stream.aljazeera.com