Category: Whatever
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What is thesis?
Originally posted on The Revolution Will Not Be Taylorized: A thesis makes a speculative proposition about what architecture could be. Based upon an informed critique of conventional models (be they conventional models of building, understanding, or designing,) this proposition tests a concise and specific hypothesis. -Ellen Dunham Jones This blog…
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Article: Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place”
Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130621-stonehenge-summer-solstice-archaeology-science/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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Article: Happy Supermoon! Celebrate lunar largeness as a planetary holiday
Happy Supermoon! Celebrate lunar largeness as a planetary holiday http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/21/19065917-happy-supermoon-celebrate-lunar-largeness-as-a-planetary-holiday Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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Midsummer Days
Originally posted on simonhlilly: MIDSUMMER DAYS 1 Heading, slowly north from under the cloud. As the road stretches, the sun breaks through. Heat seeps down and reflects up from the ground. Wild rose and elder The bones deep in my belly Warm and relax. Lazy summer clouds. 2 By nine…
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Historical Propaganda
Originally posted on notestoponder: I’ve been thinking about the post I wrote last night, having a day to mull it over led me to ponder historical propaganda. A bitter pill is much easier to swallow with a little sugar. Human nature predictably wants to be on the winning team, and…
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Decline and fall: how American society unravelled | World news | The Guardian
In or around 1978, America’s character changed. For almost half a century, the United States had been a relatively egalitarian, secure, middle-class democracy, with structures in place that supported the aspirations of ordinary people. You might call it the period of the Roosevelt Republic. Wars, strikes, racial tensions and youth rebellion…
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Daodejing 34
#34* DAO (Great Way) everywhere. Left or right, all around. On It, the 10,000 entities† relying nurturing, never rejecting. Achieving completion without needing recognition. Feeding the 10,000 without being the master. Forever without desire: It can be called small. The 10,000 returning to it and never is it their master:…
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Putting ‘Yeezus’ Aside: Jasiri X’s Urgent Spreadable Media by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan (in Exile)
In a celebrated and much remarked upon three-minute spot that aired during Game 5 of the NBA finals, artist and entrepreneur Jay Z remarked “we don’t have any rules, everybody’s trying to figure it out. That’s why the internet is like the Wild West…the Wild, Wild West.” It was an…
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Hymn to Pleasure
Originally posted on Glorialana Magazine: Hello God! Thank You for Friday. Today is going to be your happy Friday because we will immerse in the city of pleasure. This is Vienna. I have been in Vienna and I must say this city is the hymn to pleasure and “the only…
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Daodejing 32
#32* DAO (the Great Way) always and forever without name. Simple and small. Nothing under-heaven can rule over the Great Way. If Kings obey this, all under-heaven will follow them spontaneously. Heaven and earth† join together: sweet dew will fall scattering down equally without consideration for people. In the beginning,…
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“Ode to Joy”
Originally posted on S.'. E.'. F.'.: And yet we cannot dispense with Special Relativity either, because the mathematics there is equally flawless and the experiments are legion that confirm it. Two solutions have been proposed and both assume that the “communication” involved in Bellian transmissions does not involve energy, since it is energy that cannot…
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