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Featured Author: Tracy James Jones
Originally posted on Sharon C. Williams-Author: Tracy James Jones from Dallas and Waxahachie, Texas, is a blogger, book reviewer, indie author, former actor & artist who writes multicultural romantic drama. Literary portfolio includes four published novels, a collection of short… Continue reading
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MENTAL HEALTH CARE – WHO NEEDS IT?
Originally posted on Sheri Lawrence de Grom: Mental Health Care – Who Needs It? The Fourth House By – Sheri de Grom I couldn’t believe what I’d just heard. It couldn’t be possible. Yet when I looked up and… Continue reading
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NOAH
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The Semantic Apocalypse
Originally posted on Speculative Heresy: Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the Semantic Apocalypse”. (Held at Canada’s premier interdisciplinary department: The University… Continue reading
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Brain Drain and Brain Gain
In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories —… Continue reading
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Eleven Nations “Up in Arms”
The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps—including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in… Continue reading
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The best science and technology podcasts – Telegraph
Really nice resource for the curious. The best science and technology podcasts, from astronomy for beginners to consumer advice, selected and updated by Pete Naughton via The best science and technology podcasts – Telegraph. Continue reading
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Sheryl Sandberg: “Men need to do more childcare and housework” – Salon.com
For her new book, “What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?,” veteran journalist Marianne Schnall interviewed high-achieving women about why the highest glass ceiling in the land is still in place. The following is taken from her talk… Continue reading
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The government needs to reform its relationship with technology
…MindMixer works to create a platform to more easily create dialogues between citizens and political figures. Bowden explains it as bringing the “town hall meeting concept online.” At heart, though, is the understanding that the government needs to integrate and… Continue reading
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Are we all screwed if we refuse to stand up and push back?
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held annually in San Francisco. This year’s conference… Continue reading
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Some Clarifications on “No One is Born Gay”
Originally posted on Social (In)Queery: I wrote this post a while back and had I known how many people would read it and how many excellent questions and comments I’d continue to receive, I would have addressed the subject more exhaustively. … Continue reading
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Meet the Pacific Rim’s new environmental superpower – Quartz
Together, the west coast of the US and Canada boasts a population of 53 million and would form the world’s fifth-largest economy, a Pacific Rim center of technological innovation with a gross domestic product of $2.8 trillion… think of the… Continue reading
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13 Staircases Worth the Climb (Photos) | The Daily Beast
First it was guns, germs and steel, then it was salt—now, it’s the invention of stairs that changed the history of mankind. In a new book, Staircases (published by Vendome Press this month), co-authors Oscar Tusquets Blanca, Martine Diot, Adelaïde de Savray,… Continue reading
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tilting between dusk and dawn
groggy from napping rainy yet warm Texas dusk feeling out of place The weather has been out of sorts in Denton lately. Tomorrow is Halloween and we have yet to have a real cold snap. The weather has been humid… Continue reading
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Modern Eco-Friendly Homes Set Amongst the Trees
Modern Eco-Friendly Homes Set Amongst the Trees http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/konrad-wojcik-primeval-symbiosis-single-pole-house Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Continue reading
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Opening up films
The opening scene of Orson Welles‘ Touch of Evil. The opening scene of Roman Polanski‘s The Tenant. The opening scene to Harvey Fierstein‘s Torch Song Trilogy. The opening scene to Robert Altman‘s The Player. The opening scene to Marry Harron’s American Psycho. Related… Continue reading
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