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Lookout: Extreme Profiling
It should be clear to folks by now this was not a vendetta against Tea Baggers and those who rant & rave against Obama and/or Obamacare. This is just another form of surveillance by profiling. Obviously we should think of how the IRS was going after some non-profit groups as…
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Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected : Discovery News
Astronomers were on a celestial fishing expedition for pulsing neutron stars and other radio bursts when they found something unexpected in archived sky sweeps conducted by the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The powerful signal, which lasted for just milliseconds, could have been a fluke, but then…
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Gospel of Thomas – Yale Online
Part of being a self directed learner who seeks out what interests you and hopefully makes you a better person, is finding bits and pieces of solid thinking on line. And so much sift through! There are a gajillion bits of data, only a part of that is information, and…
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True Love and Boogeymen
Originally posted on Zaphnath-Paaneah: Eye candy is for toy soldiers, true love is for children. Like boogeymen, our parents whisper fables in our eager ears to prevent bad decisions, instill fear at every corner instruct the eyes to heed first sights. But it never really works you still got more…
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Civilization’s jungle paths
Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site unearthed A ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Cambodia has revealed a colossal 700-year old urban landscape connecting ancient cities and temples to Angkor Wat. via Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site unearthed | Travel | The Guardian.
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Lightly my darling, on tiptoes
Originally posted on coromandal: From as early as I can remember, I’ve had a serious streak, scoldy, and humourless. In my undergrad a girl called me IYM, for intense young man. I don’t think I’ve shaken it quite, still striving, overreaching, catastrophizing, sweating. Having fun, yes, but returning too often to…
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Whitby Abbey in Yorkshire
Something beautiful from out NotestoPonder‘s neck of the woods in the York countryside. It should be noted for the my Goth friends, that these are the abbey ruins that inspired the Bram Stoker to write the scene of Dracula’s arrival from Transylvania. Though I find them lovely for more than…
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The Power Of Art: 5/8 – Turner
One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, Turner showed exceptional artistic talent from an early age and entered the Royal Academy aged fourteen. His English landscapes made his name but there was a darker side to his paintings that was difficult for the critics to swallow, both in the increasingly informal…
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Looking for art history? Search no further.
Good day and well met all of my brothers and sisters of the Ether! Those of you into art , art history, and aesthetics will really enjoy this. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a database with nearly 400 FREE texts on art history. This is a…
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Dreams – The Corrs
Dreams is the fourth single by Irish group The Corrs from their second album, Talk On Corners.
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