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What’s Wrong With Business And The Economy | Business Insider
This sort of thinking is the very definition of what Martin Heidegger means by treating human beings or any kind of natural being as a “standing reserve.” …American corporations, which are richer and more profitable than they have ever been… Continue reading
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Buddhist Response To Terror
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Daodejing 38 Redux (keithwaynebrown.com) Becoming a Buddhist (prixiescrib.wordpress.com) The Face of Buddhist Terror (freedomnewsgroup.com) Wirathu: The Face Of Buddhist Terror – OpEd (eurasiareview.com) Continue reading
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Looking for “Adams” and “Eves”
Hundreds of thousands of years ago—when people still lived in small hunter-gatherer bands, when it’s not even clear they were totally anatomically modern (though they probably were)—something happened in the human genome. Somewhere in Africa, a man carried a Y… Continue reading
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Article: Scientists love to hate greens, because what greens say matters
…many scientists suggest that human progress, understood in such a way, cannot reach ever greater heights. Indeed, the impacts of environmental shocks, food shortages, or technological developments may cause civilisation to break down. Martin Rees’s Our Final Century, Jared Diamond’s Collapse and Stephen… Continue reading
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Neuromorphics: Engineering the Shape of Thinking
ANALOGIES change. Once, it was fashionable to describe the brain as being like the hydraulic systems employed to create pleasing fountains for 17th-century aristocrats’ gardens. As technology moved on, first the telegraph network and then the telephone exchange became the… Continue reading
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I Love My Job (Animated) | Action Figure Therapy – YouTube
Okay… NSFW, but hilarious! Thanks to Ronnie P. for pointing me in the direction of this great bunch of videos. Action Figure Therapy’s Jungle explains why he loves his job so much. And he also describes an intimate encounter with… Continue reading
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Socrates was Right – Part 2
And so was the laughing Buddha! A piece from the Atlantic sent to me by my good brother Griffen R. This is a companion piece to two other reblogs: Obviously it expands on the shorter Economist article I reblogged early this… Continue reading
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Socrates was Right
THE Greek founders of philosophy constantly debated how best to live the good life. Some contended that personal pleasure is the key. Others pointed out that serving society and finding purpose is vital. Socrates was in the latter camp, fiercely… Continue reading
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