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  • Daodejing 3

    #3* Do not encourage excellent abilities, [1] [and] keep people from contention; do not value rare goods, keep people from stealing; do not flaunt the desirable, keep people’s hearts undisturbed. Hence, the governance Of the sage Empties their hearts Fills their… Continue reading

    Daodejing 3

  • Daodejing 4

    #4* Dao is empty yet when used, it seems never endless. Bottomless, yet it seems like the progenitor of 10,000 things. [Blunt the sharpness, Remove the distractions, Soften the light, Blend with the dust.] [1] Formless, yet it seems like existence.… Continue reading

    Daodejing 4

  • Federal Department of Well Being

    Originally posted on notestoponder: The other night I opened my post on Scientology with a paragraph about ” sensible Canada.” Standing behind my opinion and reasons for this assertion isn’t difficult; my dilemma stems from use of the word “sensible”… Continue reading

  • Lost Pyramids of Caral

    This documentary adds to the notions port forward in my earlier sharing of the Wired article, Human Nature May not Be So Warlike After All. I saw this film eleven years ago just after the BBC first aired it. A… Continue reading

    Lost Pyramids of Caral

  • Blast From the Past | VisualNews.com

    One of the best perks of fame and riches is the ability to travel the world, but no mater how famous you are, you can’t get very far without a passport. Here is a collection of passports from some of… Continue reading

  • Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos | Earth | EarthSky

    All of these photos came from EarthSky Facebook friends. We asked you to post your sunflowers pics, and wow! Here are a dozen of them – sunflowers from all around the world. via Sunflowers: See a dozen great photos |… Continue reading

  • Francis Ford Coppola Interview |Esquire

    Apocalypse Now Redux and Godfather I & II are among my favorite films… could not resist this piece over at Esquire magazine. A pleasure to read as Stephen Garrett allows Mr. Coppola to just ramble from question to answer to question.… Continue reading

  • Human Nature May Not Be So Warlike After All | Wired Science

    Given the long, awful history of violence between groups of people, it’s easy to think that humans are predisposed to war. But a new study of violence in modern hunter-gatherer societies, which may hold clues to prehistoric human life, suggests… Continue reading

  • America in ruins | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

    Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix toured the United States to capture crumbling buildings that were once schools, prisons and asylums. Their images range from the majestic to the eerie, and show worlds once full of life, now long forgotten.… Continue reading

  • Cosmic gas cloud fights supermassive black hole | Science | guardian.co.uk

    Supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has a gas cloud in its gravitational clutches – but the gas cloud isn’t giving up without a fight… The gas cloud was discovered in 2011 and shown to be on… Continue reading

  • A Raised Hand | the New Yorker

    “Dorothy Giunta-Cotter knew that someday her husband, William, would kill her. They met in 1982, when he was twenty and she was fifteen: a girl with brown eyes and cascading dark hair. Over the course of twenty years, he had… Continue reading

  • Benedict Cumberbatch IS Julian Assange:

    Benedict Cumberbatch IS Julian Assange: Preview of Major WikiLeaks Movie | The Nation http://ow.ly/n5J3O http://ow.ly/i/2DWc1 Continue reading

  • 3D visual forensic facial reconstruction of a Neanderthal face in front of your eyes

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions One of the coolest visualization techniques to come along in recent years is the careful forensic reconstruction of likely facial features of deceased people from their bony remains, based on subtleties in bone structure… Continue reading

  • Genetics: Scientifically Sanctioned Palm Reading | Thought Catalog

    Genes are an odd, potent figure. They’re primal yet with an intelligence that exceeds us, as if divine or advanced super alien. The body, we imagine, is stupid, always needing to be told what to do by our “selves” (there… Continue reading

    Genetics: Scientifically Sanctioned Palm Reading | Thought Catalog

  • Britain Legalizes Gay Marriage | Huffington Post

    Britain has legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow told lawmakers that the royal assent had been given Wednesday – the day after the bill to legalize same-sex… Continue reading

    Britain Legalizes Gay Marriage | Huffington Post

  • Article: The Rise of People Living Alone Has Led to More Sustainable Cities

    Whatever you want to call people living alone — some go with solos, others singletons — the fact is there’s a lot more of them than there used to be. In 1950, solos accounted for about 9 percent of all… Continue reading

  • Beautiful Steps

    Originally posted on sigrun hodne studio: Beautiful steps #4, by the artist duo L/B, belongs to a series featuring different sets of stairs in unusual locations and positions. In Beautiful steps #4 a wide spiral stair case is suspended from… Continue reading

  • How does he do it?

    Originally posted on Flowers and More: Flowers and More View original post Continue reading