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  • 3 Signs that you are Waking Up!

  • Prairie dogs’ language decoded

      Did that prairie dog just call you fat? Quite possibly. On The Current Friday, biologist Con Slobodchikoff described how he learned to understand what prairie dogs are saying to one another and discovered how eloquent they can be….   Prairie dogs, he said, were ideal animals to study because…

  • Daodejing 35

    Daodejing 35

    #35* Grasping the appearance: all will come along following without quarrel. Tranquility Peace Quietude Sweet music and good food catch the passersby (like bait). When the Great Way (DAO) is spoken: dull and tasteless. Seeing it: not enough to be seen. Hearing it: not enough to be heard. Yet using…

  • At the end of the day we are left with ourselves

  • The ideology and politics of fracking in an image

    Originally posted on tothesungod: If you prefer visuals to text, here’s To Frack or Not to Frack condensed into a single image. Consider it an elaborate way of saying: when it comes to the risks and regulation of natural gas development—the politics of fracking—people should be directly involved in the process of…

  • Don’t Believe the Hype

    Originally posted on Independent Scholars: These days it is often hard to tell when a claim is true when faced with the swirl of rapid fire information that is our modern world. We teach our students to evaluate sources, but even we can sometimes be confused by new and glitzy…

  • Hypocrisy

    Hypocrisy

     

  • Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker

    We may be dealing here with a general principle of action… Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously  engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that…

  • The Bather

    The Bather by Alexander Porfirevich Archipenko (1915). © Estate of Alexander Archipenko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. http://www.philamuseum.org  

  • Aging Well

    Originally posted on Live Life in Crescendo: This is post featured on WP Freshly Pressed.  Current post is first on recent post list.   “Oh, I’m too old for that “. Spoken by someone 80? Spoken by a young man. He was too old to learn to snowboard. So often…

  • Te Atua (God)

    “Te Atua (God)” by Paul Gauguin. 1893-94. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund, 1941. http://www.philamuseum.org

  • An ASCII Poem

    d|gI+Al hEGeM0n …d|g|Z|nE An ASCII Poemby Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese < > ! * ‘ ‘ # ^ ” ` $ $ – ! * = @ $ _ % * < > ~ #4 & [ ] . . – | { , , SYSTEM HALTED Translated from…

  • St. Maelruains

    Originally posted on Ed Mooney Photography: On the Edge of Tallaght village lies Saint Maelruain’s Church, and whilst not a ruin it is a stunning church and there are some very interesting items within its grounds. There is no definite date available as to when Tallaght was founded. It is…

  • Christina Cok: a Medieval Life

    Christina Cok: a Medieval Life

  • Aurora Consurgens

    Our evaluations. – All actions may be traced back to evaluations, all evaluations are original or adopted – the latter being by far the most common. Why do we adopt them? From fear – that is to say, we consider it more advisable to pretend they are our own –…

  • The Politics of Calling for No Politics

    Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: [Header Photo by Hansjörg Keller on Unsplash] Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (HBO Documentaries, 2013) offers a window into the intersections of music, religion, and politics in the context of Vladimir Putin’s Russia: On Feb. 21, 2012, members of the feminist art collective…

  • Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you…