See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The ability of deep sea fish to plumb new depths may be constrained by biochemistry, new research by an international team has found.   Fish appear to be absent from the ocean’s greatest depths,… Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Inequality is endemic to the core structure of an America that operates more as a plutocracy than a democracy. See on www.alternet.org Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Elysia chlorotica is a “solar-powered” marine sea slug that sequesters and retains photosynthetically active chloroplasts from the algae it eats and, remarkably, has incorporated algal genes into its own genetic code. It is emerald… Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsA referendum begins in Venice and the surrounding region on whether to become independent from Italy. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: There are quite a few regions around the globe where citizens are discussing true regional… Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsGertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls ‘dense poems and fictions, often devoid of plot or dialogue,’ with the result being that ‘commercial publishers slighted her experimental writings…See… Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsThe secret lies in how your brain processes sound: People love repetition.See on www.theatlantic.com Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Twitter righteously and hilariously mocks a bunch of aggrieved white supremacists See on www.salon.com Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Dr. Damon Horowitz quit his technology job and go a Ph.D. in philosophy — and he thinks you should too. “If you are at all disposed to question what’s around you, you’ll start to… Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A preview of the Comic Book MOOC, Get a Grasp! A Primer Course for Getting Your Comic Started, which starts March 23. Interview with Patrick Yurick, CEO of Making Comics (dotcom) and one of… Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions With increasing surveillance concerns in places like Ukraine, how are protesters using technology to ensure private, secure communication? See on www.pbs.org Continue reading

See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Scientists describe as ‘extremely interesting’ new analysis that makes case for gamma rays tracing back to Wimp particles   Not long after the Fermi Gamma-ray SpaceTelescope took to the sky in 2008, astrophysicists noticed that… Continue reading

Originally posted on coromandal: We used, as architects, to do things for public benefit; now we broadcast the interests of individuals or corporations. This has changed the work, says Koolhaas in the interview below. How it has changed the work? That’s… Continue reading