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Searching for Integrity: The Politics of Mindfulness in the Digital Economy – Nomos Journal
Fascinating article by a friend of my dear brother, Carl S. With the proliferation of training courses espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation, critics have coined the term “McMindfulness” to describe a cottage industry whose profit motives appear to… Continue reading
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Whatever You Do, You MUST Mask the Suffering of the White Poor
Poverty has become a suburban phenomenon. That should not be a great surprise if you have been paying attention over the last forty years. But there is the rub: most are not paying attention. Even as professionals become poorer and… Continue reading
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Daodejing 9
#9.* Holding and filling it up, no comparison to stopping it in time; Honing and sharpening it cannot remain for a long time. Gold and jade fill the hall, Yet cannot be guarded. Wealthy and honored Yet arrogant, Brings disaster… Continue reading
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Hunter Wild
Astride the Whisper of Chaos, a statement. Drawing upon a Platonic sense of the Erotic as a striving toward the Infinite, this series connects the development of the human form to a relentless desire to explore and traverse the unfolding Universe.… Continue reading
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5 Insane Lost Verses That Change the Meaning of Famous Songs | Cracked.com
Another great list from our dear sisters and brothers at the Cracked.com Department for Telling Taxonomies and Queer Catalogs, wherein we learn that many famous songs have rather strange verses that have gone missing over time. Like the homosexual undertones… Continue reading
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NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact… Continue reading
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Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth
On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge suggest—based on… Continue reading
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The Night of Fori Imperiali in Rome – La Notte dei Fori
Originally posted on valeriu dg barbu: Saturday, August 3, from 21.30, the night lights of Rome to inaugurate the pedestrianization of the Imperial Forums and deliver to the Romans, the Romans and tourists the most beautiful walk in the world.… Continue reading
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Scientists Discover Additional Causes of Bee Deaths
Originally posted on Illuminate: Photo courtesy of http://www.my-walls.org From treehugger.com: So what is with all the dying bees? Scientists have been trying to discover this for years. Meanwhile, bees keep dropping like… well, you know. Is it mites? Pesticides?… Continue reading
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MELANCHOLY ( oil on canvas) 41 x 29 inches…
Originally posted on yavishtha: My style and kind of surrealism is a style using subconscious mental activity related with my past experiences as its subject matter, characterised by dream like hallucinatory imagery to produce fantastic incongruous imagery through unnatural juxtaposition, distortion and… Continue reading
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Unified Theory Redux
d|gI+Al hEGeM0n …d|g|Z|nE The only force that equals the seemingly infinite pull of a black hole is the nothingness of space. 0=∞ At least that’s my theory. Super perfundo on the early eve of your day. View original post Continue reading
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The Myth of Complementary Protein
Big thanks to my good brother Dušan B. who posted this piece to his FB wall. Recently, I was teaching a nutrition class and describing the adequacy of plant-based diets to meet human nutritional needs. A woman raised her hand and… Continue reading
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Madness and (American) Civilization
In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, pathologizing of normal behaviors, Big Pharma corruption of psychiatry, and the adverse effects… Continue reading
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How Many Teeth Does a Snail Have?
Turns out, they have 2,640 teeth! I also could have titled this post, “What is the sound of one snail eating?” Really cool to listen to the Soundcloud of snail chomping its grass. She was 34, on a trip to… Continue reading
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