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Here are some of the best tweets mocking the “White Man March”
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Twitter righteously and hilariously mocks a bunch of aggrieved white supremacists See on www.salon.com
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The Unexpected Way Philosophy Majors Are Changing The World Of Business
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 see that there appear to be cracks in the bubble,”…
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A Sneak Peek At The Comic Book MOOC Get a Grasp – moocnewsandreviews.com
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 the instructors of Get a Grasp. See on moocnewsandreviews.com
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Revolutionaries add new social media networks to tech toolkit
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
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Dark matter looks more and more likely after new gamma-ray analysis
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 it was picking up a steady rain of gamma rays…
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Textimony 20140311
Laboring at life as a distracted employee? Embrace existence as loving diversion! Let go of the ordinary: Allow yourself to be out-of-order.
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Textimony 20140306
Free to doubt this human frailty –a gasp, a tear, a touch, a laugh– forsaken of any certainty: at play in wonder. Let-go. Love. Live.
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Barely Keeping Up in TV’s New Golden Age – NYTimes.com
The growing intellectual currency of television has altered the cultural conversation in fundamental ways. Water cooler chatter is now a high-minded pursuit, not just a way to pass the time at work. The three-camera sitcom with a laugh track has been replaced by television shows that are much more like…
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Darling visions
…this is just a beginning your fault lines on the wall waiting to break a part of the night first thinking best thinking purity of complettion suddenly lost and found among the allied forces who invited days’ dark depressions– meaningless return to send her into ecstasies –out of order– broken…
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A better direction for beauty
An old ambition is peeking through: that beauty and glamour shouldn’t be divorced from wisdom. In the perfect world, the great truths wouldn’t lie locked away in depressing unreadable books or be spoken only by inarticulate and visually challenged members of society. They would be presented to us with some…
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Mononoke
Really awesome animation. Love the style and feel of this anime. You can watch the first episode below. Here is a brief overivew from Wikipedia: Mononoke follows a wandering, nameless character known only as the “Medicine Seller” (voiced by Takahiro Sakurai). The series is made up of individual chapters in…
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super architect
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 a big question, but one can make guesses: from heterogenous…
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Dawning Jedi
This semester, I find myself contributing to a number of university courses. One is Metaphysics. As designed by my colleague, the class moves between classical metaphysics (what we have thought about Being in the past) and transhumanist metaphysics (what human being may become in the future). After some Plato and…
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UNT Comics Studies Conference 2014
Originally posted on SUPERHERO RHETORIC FORTRESS OF BLOGITUDE!: Saturday March 1, 2014 at UNT in Denton TX from 10am-6pm! SUPERSCHOLARS ASSEMBLE!! It’s that time of year once again for UNT’s Comics Studies Conference! The University of North Texas Center for Interdisciplinarity invites paper submissions to the 2014 UNT Comics Studies…
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The “Deep State” – How Much Does It Explain?
…[T]here is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose.…
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Gotta Serve Somebody
Via Star Wars Rebels Propaganda Posters Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company
Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few powerful media conglomerates to put profit ahead of the public…
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