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Breathing Water
Great background. Just the sort of thing I love to run across when surfing. Great photography on this site.
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The 67 People As Wealthy As The World’s Poorest 3.5 Billion
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Oxfam International, a poverty fighting organization, made news at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year with its report that the world’s 85 richest people own assets with the same value as those owned by the poorer half of the world’s population, or…
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The American Scholar: Ten Best Sentences – Our Editors
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsTen Best SentencesSee on theamericanscholar.org
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Samuel Beckett story to be published 80 years after it was rejected
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Nobel laureate was told by publisher that ‘people will shudder and be puzzled and confused’ by reading Echo’s Bones See on www.theguardian.com
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A Panicked Press Turns Economics Into a Morality Play
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The ever-changing reasons for a never-changing policy suggest that we aren’t really talking about policy analysis. See on www.truth-out.org
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Sheppard Air Force Base: Uncounted Costs of Privatizing Government Services
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Presidents Clinton and Bush supported the privatization of public services even when there was no credible evidence that the private sector cost less or delivered superior quality. See on www.truth-out.org
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I LIKE LAND MASS TURTLES
Originally posted on DGAF: land mass turtles? thats unheard of, so recently the crew has been working hard on making DGAF the album, along with the video game Academy of combat arts, all of our projects we’re working on are coming along nicely Heres a video of Nature working on…
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The 21st Century Decline #33 By: MICHÆL T. COE
Originally posted on MICHAEL T. COE: The 21st Century Decline #33 By: MICHAEL T. COE
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America’s Workers: Stressed Out, Overwhelmed, Totally Exhausted
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsWhy do so many people—particularly women—seem to have so much on their plates?See on www.theatlantic.com
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Debt for Master of Arts Degree Increases by Double the National Average – ORDER OF EDUCATION
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsWhat on earth could possess a person to borrow $43,000 for a Master of Arts degree? There is no possible way that could be a good idea. Financially speaking, an MA is worth little, if anything, more than a bachelor’s degree.See on www.orderofeducation.com
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Retaliation Measures Taken at Texas Detention Facility as Detainees Resume Hunger Strike in Tacoma
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A group claims ICE officers have retaliated against hunger strikers at a private detention center in Conroe, Texas, as detainees at a similar facility in Tacoma, Washington, have resumed their hunger strike. See on truth-out.org
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From Metaphysics to Poetic Dwelling: Heidegger’s Task of Thinking
Originally posted on Isaddictedtothemusic: A forthcoming thinker, who might want to attempt the task to adopt the thinking which I am trying to set up, he will have to cope with an idea written by Heinrich von Kleist. I wrote it down in one of my notebooks: ‘I step back…
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Facebook’s vision for social VR is misguided (Wired UK)
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Mark Zuckerberg envisions a world where you strap on a pair of goggles and, through the wonders of virtual reality, you meet face-to-face with your doctor. Mark Zuckerberg is wrong. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "This is really a new social platform," Zuckerberg said Tuesday…
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March – Exploding stars prove Newton’s law of gravity unchanged over cosmic time – Swinburne University of Technology
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Australian astronomers have combined all observations of supernovae ever made to determine that the strength of gravity has remained unchanged over the last nine billion years. See on www.swinburne.edu.au
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World’s Highest Wind Turbine Will Hover Above Alaska – IEEE Spectrum
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Bonus: it could provide cell service See on spectrum.ieee.org
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3D insect flight
@BBCNews reports XRay video of flying insect. A team of scientists from Oxford University, Imperial College, and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have used very intense X-rays to film inside an insect as it flies. The footage is a 3D reconstruction, made up of several X-ray images, and shows…
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Secrets Of Earth’s Past Discovered In Famous Paintings
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Turns out there’s way more to art than its aesthetic appeal. New research by Greek and German scientists suggests that some of the world’s most celebrated landscape paintings may reveal information about pollution levels in Earth’s past that could he… Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight:…
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