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  • Language will outlive us – By Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “A poet always knows that what in the vernacular is called the voice of the Muse is, in reality, the dictate of language; that it’s not the language that happens to be his instrument, but that he i… See on awestruckwanderer.wordpress.com

  • Can Heritage Foundation Posterboy Bono Save the GOP?

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsThe U2 frontman wants to save the world. Why shouldn’t he save Republicans, too? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "…The journey of the celebrity artist or entrepreneur is today the most culturally significant journey people make from low status and high vulnerability to the reverse. Artists…

  • Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy (Andragogy, Heutagogy) of Mobile Learning

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement based on the evolution from Education 1.0 to Educa… See on usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com

  • How Did Toast Become the Latest Artisanal Food Craze?

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsHow did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: …’ Why all the toast? “Tip of the hipster spear,” he said. I had two reactions to this: First, of course, I rolled…

  • The Germ Theory of Democracy, Dictatorship, and Your Cherished Beliefs

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsIs culture just a side effect of the struggle to avoid disease? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: ‘…Thornhill is confident in the evidence underlying his theory, and relatively untroubled by the implications. “If you increase health then people will become more liberal and happier,” he told…

  • Waking Life Bed Scene with Ethan Hawke

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Waking Life bed scene with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. A discussion of collective memory, collective unconscious, originality, and the death of the author. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: … multiple discovery purports that ideas are not “created” or “invented,” but rather simply “found” or “reached,”…

  • Radiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site Highlights Problems

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A recent fire and radiation release at New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant uranium repository has brought renewed focus on the problem of what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive waste and spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.  See on truth-out.org

  • Granting “Personhood” Status for Great Apes

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Humans are classified by biologists as Great Apes, along with orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos.  And geneticists inform us that we share 98 percent of our DNA with chimps. Yet all the… See on rogerdhansen.wordpress.com

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  • Teen Wolf reinvigorated season three by making a hero the villain

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsThe second half of Teen Wolf’s third season began as a literal nightmare within a nightmare within a dream.See on www.avclub.com

  • The Missionary’s Adventures – Jehan Georges Vibert – WikiPaintings.org

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions See on www.wikipaintings.org

  • Teaser trailer for Nightwing: The Series | Flickering Myth

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Teaser trailer for Nightwing: The Series Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: I always liked Nightwing, so this could be cool. Production values look pretty good for a non-profit, fan produced web series.  See on www.flickeringmyth.com

  • Fish appear to be absent from the ocean’s greatest depths due to biochemistry

    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, the trenches from 8,400–11,000 m. The reason is unknown, but…

  • Why Income Inequality Is Going to Get Catastrophically Worse

    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

  • Elysia chlorotica, a solar-powered sea slug is an energy-efficient gene thief

    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 green in color often with small red or white markings,…

  • Venice votes on split from Rome

    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 autonomy. The more global we become, the more local we…

  • Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from Publisher (1912)

    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 on www.openculture.com

  • The Reason Songs Have Choruses

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