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  • You’re Not the Boss of Me! Why Libertarianism Is a Childish Sham | Alternet

    Wiping away the horizon of significance one tantrum at a time… Libertarians believe they are real rebels, because they’ve politicized the protest of children who scream through tears, “You’re not the boss of me.” The rejection of all rules and regulations, and the belief that everyone should have the ability…

  • Borobudur Buddhist Temple

    Borobudur Buddhist Temple

    Great entry from the folks over at OOAworld Travel… The first steps to Borobudur, the great Buddhist temple outside Yogyakarta, Indonesia, are guided: a welcome sign informs visitors of the monks’ routine, inviting the neophyte to follow the traditional path they took up and into the temple, entering from the…

  • NASA Sees ‘Bright Spots’ On Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System

    Scientists are puzzled by a new image taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which found two bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. The spots are noticeably brighter than other parts of the surface, which looks to be rocky and pockmarked. Source: www.npr.org

  • Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy

    Don’t Worry, Be Grumpy

    Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm will describe how to upload ancient wisdom into modern technology. He will reveal the code for the antivirus to stress, show how to delete depression, and give Buddha-tech support to peace of mind. Synergizing Mindfulness with Kindness, we can transform the iPad into the UsPad and…

  • Replace the Gospel of Money: An Interview With David Korten

    Dean Paton: Tell me how somebody who was an organizational management specialist, and then a new-economy thought leader, made this leap into what is as much a spiritual proposition as it is a political one—that Earth is a living organism, that we all are essentially a part of this one…

  • Live Long and Prosper

    Live Long and Prosper

    Leonard Nimoy/Mr. Spock was the first person I remember talking about logic. As a child, I did not want to be Captain Kirk in games, I wanted to be the Vulcan. When I think about the passing of a person from life into the “undiscovered country,” I wonder–How did she/he influence…

  • One day we could borrow ‘antifreeze’ proteins from ticks to resist cold

    Feeling a bit nippy? For now you’ll have to stick to your hat and scarf to warm up, but one day some antifreeze proteins from a fish or a tick might do the trick. In a preliminary study published Wednesday in PLOS ONE, researchers report using specially bred mice —…

  • The Sparrow and The Red-Crowned Crane

    The Sparrow and The Red-Crowned Crane

    Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: A small sparrow was weaving her way down along the tree line, darting in-and-out of its branches before quickly changing directions and taking a steep dive over the riverside grasses.  With a slight shift of her body she then swiftly rose again,…

  • Deleuze for realz

    Deleuze for realz

    “If you’re trapped in the dream of the Other, you’re fucked.” ― Gilles Deleuze “The shame of being a man – is there any better reason to write?” ― Gilles Deleuze “Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!” ― Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia “A concept is a brick. It can…

  • The slim chances of getting on tenure track without an “elite” school PhD

    This is why I am keeping my PhD studies oriented toward these targets: (1) becoming a coffee consultant, (2) setting up a practice as a philosophical counselor, and (3) looking for a job in the academy. Why do folks sign up for a PhD program outside the top 20 of their respective…

  • Liminality… and Hope – Patricia Damery

    Liminality is a word that people ask me to repeat twice when I say it, as if they didn’t hear it quite right the first time. As a Jungian analyst, I recognize the liminal state as that of many entering treatment. The old way no longer works, but the new…

  • Solitude: The Most Underestimated Self-Development Necessity

    Montaigne, the great French writer, said that “we must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty and principal retreat and solitude”. Source: www.linkedin.com

  • The Most Powerful Artwork I Have Ever Seen

    The most thunderstruck I’ve ever been by art was before the 13,000-year-old cave paintings of mammals in Niaux, France. Source: www.vulture.com

  • Some Thoughts on Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves | Brain Pickings

    Carl Sagan saw in books “proof that humans are capable of working magic.” The magic of humanity’s most enduring books — the great works of literature and philosophy — lies in the simple fact that they are full of hope for the human spirit. News has become the sorcerous counterpoint…

  • Extracting a Mean for the Coffee Bean

    Extracting a Mean for the Coffee Bean

    Australian Barista-Philosopher Matt Perger philosophizes on the sense of “evenness” when talking about coffee extraction: Throughout my Barista career, so many of my teachers and peers have told me to extract evenly. “Don’t do x or the extraction won’t be even” and “Do y to even out the extraction” etc.…

  • ear nose and throat

    Originally posted on coromandal: The elephant’s trunk isn’t the elephant and the elephant isn’t tree-like; these misapprehensions are the pitfalls of specialization. To really know the elephant must be divine, and will require knowing more than one body part. It’s the same with knowing a patient when you’re a doctor. A specialist…

  • Sweet, Sweet Soul

    Sweet, Sweet Soul

  • Thomas Merton on Being an Intellectual, and a Message to the Poets

    Thomas Merton on Being an Intellectual, and a Message to the Poets

    Originally posted on Jeremy D. Johnson: Thomas Merton was born today, January 31st in 1915. A January baby, like me. Merton was a Christian monastic, whose tremendously popular autobiographic The Seven Story Mountain (1948) made him a well known and well read American intellectual of the 1950s and 60s. He wrote prolifically in…