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Less organized than a sport and more profound than a voyage, a long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the sublime. Source: www.nytimes.com Less organized than a sport and more profound than a voyage, a long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the sublime.

“ Researchers used techniques from genetics to explain culture.” Source: uk.businessinsider.com Extremely interesting

Freese Coffee Co. have put together an interactive diagram, For Better Coffee, listing 5 tips for making great coffee.  Follow the bean through sourcing, grinding, measurements, and brew times for the perfect cup of coffee.  There have been a lot… Source: scasa.co.za From farm to cup, don’t screw it up!

To help the zero-g coffee aficionado, Portland State University’s (PSU) Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science has developed a microgravity espresso cup that drinks like its earthbound… Source: www.gizmag.com Perfect espresso anywhere. 

Image via http://chronoperates.deviantart.com/art/Art-Nouveau-Peacock-272202614 I.“A Sufi legend, likely of Persian origin, suggests that god created spirit in the form of a peacock. Source: symbolreader.net

Recent remarks from Treasury Secretary Jack Lew help shed light on a troubling phenomenon Source: www.salon.com this should not be a surprise  

by Michelle Dean The news about humanity is never very good when it comes from Reddit, is it? Today’s contribution comes via an editorial at WIRED. Its authors, Elena Glassman, Neha Narula and Jean… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com It does matter 

by Phoebe Maltz Bovy I can’t stop thinking about Vanessa Vitiello Urquhart’s essay identifying with macho or misogynistic male authors and protagonists: I’d always understood I was a she, and I nev… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com The protagonist’s gaze

Originally posted on The Dish: by Will Wilkinson The Washington Post reports: A majority of Americans believe that the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were justified, even as about half the public says the treatment amounted to torture, according to a new…

Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Let’s start with a little game. Fill in the blanks: Government interventions over the past four decades have yielded a cascade of perverse incentives, bureaucratic diktats, and economic pressures that together are forcing [_____] to sacrifice their independent professional [_____] judgment, and their…

This is the word-by-word commentary on the text of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminary practices entitled, ‘A Torch for the Excellent Path of Omniscience’. Source: www.lotsawahouse.org Letting-go of frustration, practicing compassion, open to the Encompassing – #liberation

Physicists have teleported a light particle 15 miles (25 kilometers), making it the farthest quantum teleportation yet. Advances in quantum teleportation could lead to better Internet and communication security, and get scientists closer to developing quantum computers. About five years ago, researchers could only teleport quantum information, such as which…

Like Thomas Merton wrote, “In a world of tension and breakdown, it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in their naked reality and in their ordinariness.” Sacred clowns are…