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sittinginthewoods
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A new blog from a good brother & cherished cousin, Will Hudson. Will is one of my favorite poets and quick becoming one of my favorite environmentalists. 8^) See on sittinginthewoods.com
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Kentucky’s GOP lawmakers question standards for teaching evolution in schools – KansasCity.com
One wonders when it will ever end. “I think we are very committed to being able to take Kentucky students and put them on a report card beside students across the nation,” Givens said. “We’re simply saying to the ACT people we don’t want what is a theory to be…
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Okay. After a few days of being bored by
Okay. After a few days of being bored by this and that… Color me amazed, I’ll tell ya what! Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram | ExtremeTech http://ow.ly/d3nnb
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Karl Jaspers on the Struggle for Existence
My existence as such deprives others, just as they deprive me. Every position I occupy excludes another, claiming some of the limited space available. Every success I have diminishes others. My very life is due to the victorious struggle of my forebears, and my defeats will ultimately show up in the fact that in…
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Richard II « Keelan Foley
Personally I feel that Shakespeare’s plays are politically useful and an effective means of distributing “common thinking” as in class and society structures through popular mediums. Also Shakespeare was closely tied with the current monarchy of the time. He implanted certain themes and warnings into his works. Throughout his plays…
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Book Review: John Cage biography explores Zen Buddhist influence » TCPalm.com
In a new biography of this pioneering artist, art critic Kay Larson links Cage’s daring presentation of “the sound of no sound” to his growing interest in Eastern religion, particularly Zen Buddhism, at a time of personal crisis in the 1940s and ’50s. via Book Review: John Cage biography explores…
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Should the South secede? – Salon.com
Before anybody jumps to the conclusion that I believe the south should secede, I want to state categorically that this is not the point of view from where I am coming. An interesting aspect of this interview is that the book’s author does not believe that Texas would even secede…
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BBC News – Ancient rock art’s colours c
BBC News – Ancient rock art’s colours come from microbes http://ow.ly/cXBsl
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Keep On Cooking: This is the way to live
Keep On Cooking: This is the way to live | Julia Child Remixed | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube http://ow.ly/cXwx8
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Game of Thrones author George R. R. Mart
Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin contra Voter ID Laws – “Show Us Your Papers” http://ow.ly/cXoQj
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A Public Soul in Stasis: Ayn Rand vs. the Pope – Salon.com
The Greek word for “civil war” is stasis. While that might seem strange to them modern ear, it actually makes sense. Stasis is achieved when two or more great forces bring a thing/process to a halt. Much of our public discourse today is the language of stasis or public polemic.…
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an element of our world of great importa
an element of our world of great importance has been lost « coromandal http://ow.ly/cXjQT
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Bain’s latest outsourcing plan | Business | guardian.co.uk
This is not how industrial capitalism is supposed to work. It is exactly how corporate capitalism works. Workers insist their operation is profitable and makes top quality auto sensors. “I understand business needs to make a profit. But this product has always made a ton of money. It’s just that…
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The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan on the pale grass blue butterfly
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment. A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the biological impacts of this accident on animals has not been available.The accident caused physiological and genetic damage…
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Harvard Researchers Find A Creative Way To Make Incentives Work
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Incentives are all the rage: employee bonus pay, app badges, student grades, and even lunch with President Obama. See on feedproxy.google.com
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zenpundit.com » Blog Archive » Pew II: Prevalence of belief in the Jinn
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions . . I’ve been ‘fond’ of the jinn (djenoun) since first encountering them in the brilliant short stories of Paul Bowles, and notably his A Hundred Camels in the… See on zenpundit.com
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