Category: Whatever
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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. And yet, the fact that I wrote with admittedly broad…
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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 climate change pact as another move to create transnational carbon…
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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, Jérôme Cognard, and Jean Dethier present a sweeping history of…
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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 and hovering around 75˚. It could be in the 80s…
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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.
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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 articles Tiny Terror: Roman Polanski (disinfo.com) Weekly Top Five: The…
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Article: Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
Fascinating http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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Birth of conservative delusion: Roger Ailes takes his revenge – Salon.com
Under Reagan, Republican appointees on the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine, the obligation for broadcasters to air both sides of controversial issues. This led to an explosion of opinionated propagandists on the air waves relentlessly attacking “liberal” media. It continues to this day, degrading American public discourse. A Nixon media…
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The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown
…The American political, cultural, and economic landscape is inhabited by the renewed return of authoritarianism evident in the ideologies of religious and secular certainty that legitimate the reign of economic Darwinism, the unchecked power of capital, the culture of fear and the expanding national security state. The ghosts of fascism…
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▶ Science and Islam, Jim Al-Khalili – BBC Documentary – YouTube
Science and Islam is a three-part BBC documentary about the history of science in medieval Islamic civilization presented by Jim Al-Khalili. The series is accompanied by the book Science and Islam: A History written by Ehsan Masood. Episodes: Part 1: The Language of Science Part 2: The Empire of Reason…
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Dwindling Ignorance
Conservation of energy does not mean preservation of energy. See the latter as opposite to entropy while the former is middle ground betwixt the two. The struggle of conservation we call life; our way through it, love; our outcome, belief. Always already on the way, only in open communication with…
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Blake and Bashō
William Blake “I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision I see Every thing I paint In This World, but Every body does not see alike. To the Eyes of a Miser a Guinea…
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America’s police are looking more and more like the military | Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers | Comment is free | theguardian.com
America\’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the…
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Root of the Kingdom
birds chirp in tree top squirrels chitter on the ground all at daily play in the no-shadow of noon leaf falls touching root Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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Mid-Term Exams Approaching
young fish, busy school– ripples under the surface– hungry cat prowling Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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