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Thai Curry Paste Episode II: Authentic Green Curry Paste (Kaeng Khiao Wan)
Wow… The High Heel Gourmet tells you pretty much everything you need to know about Thai Curries. Thanks, HHG! The green curry has an official name in Thai called “Kaeng Khiao Wan”, meaning “The sweet green soup”. Kaeng=soup, Khiao=green, Wan=sweet. It is a misunderstanding even among the Thai that this…
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Daodejing 24
#24* A show-off never learns A know-it-all never shines A braggart never achieves A boaster never gets ahead All of this is most unnecessary Seen from the viewpoint of the Way The person on the Way avoids all of this Because such things are disgusting. *Translation by Wenlong Lu &…
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Daodejing 23
#23* Speak rarely like Nature. Typhoons do not blow all morning. Thunderstorms do not last all day. Who makes the typhoon to blow and storm to thunder? Heaven and earth. If even Heaven and Earth cannot sustain things for long, even less a human being. Those committed to the Way…
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The Giving of Names
Originally posted on simonhlilly: I promised 47whitebuffalo that I would write something on the names of ancient Celtic tribes. This is not exactly what I originally had in mind, but it is how things seem to be arriving in these early grey deserts of pre-dawn! THE GIVING OF NAMES (a…
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unMonastery :: EdgeRyders
This is something I would like to experiment with doing here in the States. I have often thought that something based along the lines of a monastery, ashram, or sangha would do more good for locales than colleges or universities which in many ways serve the interest of their own…
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Socialist Alternative – What is university for? (and what it should be like)
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Going to university should be a liberating experience. It should train us to critique rigorously all orthodoxies and dogmas. It should be about unloc… Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Everyday I try to help youth struggle through the assembly line model of higher education. So…
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New Test for Computers: Grading Essays at College Level
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “Software developed by a joint venture of Harvard and M.I.T. uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks.” See on nyti.ms Related articles Essay-Grading Software (florence20.typepad.com) Automated System Developed To Grade Student Essays (tech.slashdot.org) And Now……
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An Ontological Understanding of Dialogue in Education « Learning Change
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions This dissertation develops an ontological understanding of dialogue that is then used to reconsider the forms and purposes of schooling. Employing the works of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, the work departs from the literature on schooling that treats dialogue as merely an instrument…
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There has been a lot of writing lately against the New Atheists. I do not ally myself with them because I do not like the way Dawkins, Harris, or Hitchins perpetuate violent conflict (see Karl Jaspers, Philosophie Vol 2 on the limit situation of struggle). But I do think these…
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Oppression and the Lie of Ommission
The celebrity trolls who currently reign on commercial television, who bill themselves as liberal or conservative, read from the same corporate script. They spin the same court gossip. They ignore what the corporate state wants ignored. They champion what the corporate state wants championed…. The cable shows, whose hyperbolic hosts…
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Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: Here. Now. Here. Now. this has been a mantra I’ve carried for years, and one I carry today as I trudge through the heaviest snow we’ve had all year. This is what I’ve been waiting for – a thick blanket of snow to…
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Whatever, Etc. 00025: Alteration
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Feminism as Humanist Praxis
I’ve said many times across diverse social media that our society is inherently misogynistic. A big part of the oppressive structure of our institutions is the instantiation of a heteronormative dichotomy that harms both sides of the normative pole and all those who do not actually fit within that continuum.…
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Digital Disconnect: Life in the InterDebtWork
If we are going to stay on top of how the Interweb and its diverse intrusions into our life are in fact the very stuff of Control, it behooves us to never forget how global corporate capitalism–the InterDebtWork–is always after better strategies to manipulate us as indebted beings. We have to…
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Originally posted on The highest manifestation of wisdom is kindness. : by Jane Cleary The word OM is probably more likely to be recognized by its symbol, even though it is the sound of OM that is the point of focus whenever it is used. It comes from the…
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The Insanity of Being Perfectly “Sane”
Originally posted on Earthling Opinion: –by Thomas Merton (Mar 29, 2013) One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Otto Adolf Eichmann trial –a Nazi lieutenant colonel who, because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, was given the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation…
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Whatever, Etc. 00024
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Originally posted on MUGEN.travel.photos.writings.: Our next destination is Bodhgaya, the place where Gautam Buddha became enlightened. Its took 4 hours to reach Bodhgaya from Varanasi and I’m so glad that manage include Bodhgaya in my itinerary. Bodhgaya, also known as Uruvela in the Buddha’s time, and today it is located in the state…
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