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  • Boon of Dandelions 9

    Boon of Dandelions 9

    Dozing content on mid-may morning Cool pillow against my cheek Iced coffee just enough to keep me from going back into dreamland Birds squawking at the humid heat Sun bright, day brilliant Writing thinking planning ———————- My futon is tight up in the eastern corner of my room. I lay…

  • Why Rituals Work: Scientific American

    “Recent research suggests that rituals may be more rational than they appear. Why? Because even simple rituals can be extremely effective. Rituals performed after experiencing losses – from loved ones to lotteries – do alleviate grief, and rituals performed before high-pressure tasks – like singing in public – do in…

  • Challenge, don’t worship, the chiefs and high priestesses of science

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Alice Bell: If we don’t recognise the politics of science, we will just get played by those who do Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "…Play into a game of hierarchies, and even if you don’t get to the top, you get to climb a bit.…

  • The new addiction to an “old” medium.

    What we watch is changing how we watch. And how we watch now across many forms of media and via many kinds of recording and/or through streaming is changing how creative types are creating for us. But the name for all this programming–television–is a place holder for how we access…

  • Futurity.org – Carnivorous plant trims its tiny genome

    The new study offers an unexpected insight: the large majority of noncoding DNA, which is abundant in many living things, may not actually be needed for complex life, according to research set to appear in Nature. The clues lie in the genome of the carnivorous bladderwort plant Utricularia gibba. http://www.futurity.org/top-stories/carnivorous-plant-trims-its-tiny-genome/

  • Etymology of “Wanderlust”

    With the German verb wandern literally meaning “to hike,” the literal definition of the compounded “wanderlust” is a “desire to hike” although it has been colloquially appropriated to encompass strollers and roamers in a looser sense. http://nowheremag.com/2013/04/etymology-of-wanderlust/

  • Body 4: Disembodied Nature

    Body 4: Disembodied Nature

    Newest issue of Disembodied Text is out. Take a look see. The poetry, the music, the art pieces… really speaking to me this morning. Hat off to the editors, Kiki and Chris, for a great compilation. Body 4: Disembodied Nature Related articles Body 4: Disembodied Nature (disembodiedtext.com) Body 3: The…

  • Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright | ROAR Magazine

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity. See on roarmag.org

  • Withdrawing

    Withdrawing

    Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks  overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster movies, don’t mind watching a few strings of memes as…

  • Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley | Video on TED.com

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. See on www.ted.com

  • Flute مزمار

    beautiful

  • why are sex workers left out of the Violence Against Women conversation at the UN?

    A very good question.

  • Frack Me

    Originally posted on The Dish: Not everyone is saying “not in my backyard”: On Tuesday, voters in Youngstown, Ohio, gave the fracking industry carte blanche to continue pumping chemicals into the ground beneath them and pumping natural gas out. A city charter amendment that would have outlawed hydraulic fracturing in the…

  • ‘Fossil’ Words Are Older Than We Thought

    The origin of some of the words we use today go back much further than scientists once thought, suggesting an Ice Age-era proto-language that spawned many of the world’s contemporary linguistic groups, according to a new study by a group of U.K.-based scientists Study: ‘Fossil’ Words Are Older Than We…

  • Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind

    Just a tad bit too fracking cool really. Cannot believe I did not hear about this two years ago.

  • Vernor Vinge on Technological Unemployment

    Vernor Vinge on Technological Unemployment

    What does the future hold, not only for the great hoard of folk who may not keep ahead of the ever-widening techno-chasm, but also the banks of thinkers/creators who have until now been busy at encoding the Book of Life? So you can imagine a civilization in which there are…

  • Boon of Dandelions 8

    Boon of Dandelions 8

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveller, long I stood… –Robert Frost So many, so varied are all the possibilities of how anything gets from this place to that one, how anyone moves from this moment to the next.…

  • Learning Theory – What are the established learning theories?

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave & Wenger… See on cmapspublic3.ihmc.us