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As Denton seeks to become the first city in Texas to ban fracking, the industry is trying to frame the fight in economic terms. But that turns out to be a poor choice. Source: www.truth-out.org Go Adam with  your Op/Ed at Truthout: As the industry clutches at straws – and threatens…

“Knowledge workers” tend to be more unfocused in both the early morning and mid-afternoon. Why force them to work when they’re least productive? Source: m.theatlantic.com

I attended the recent conference of the International Big History Association.  The association is oriented toward researching and teaching “Big History,” which aims (as their website says) to “und… Source: becomingintegral.com

The Texas Republican party once again proved that it is living in a previous century, when over 60 of its members got together to sign a legal brief which states that same-sex marriage opens the do… Source: www.addictinginfo.org In states that have already legalized same-sex marriage, we haven’t seen the…

Don’t Call It Threat Modeling Source: medium.com I think that Deleuze would find this a great introduction to the Society of Control: “Networks overlay each other and touch each other and affect each other all over the place. In this phase of human civilization the interaction of the vast networks…

Quite frankly, we’re surprised it didn’t end with a rose ceremony. Source: www.vanityfair.com

Take two kids, the same age, who grew up in the same city. Which one is more likely to go to jail … or college? Source: www.npr.org “Just 33 children — out of nearly 800 — moved from the low-income to high-income bracket. And a similarly small number born into…

With its academics and its finances under fire, the Texas sports academy created by Deion Sanders, the Hall of Fame cornerback and N.F.L. commentator, faces the loss of its state charter. Source: www.nytimes.com If you understand Texans and football, you know why this kind of thing happens.

A History of Gay Marriage by Rictor Norton Source: rictornorton.co.uk

Destruction of land and soil by poor farming isn’t inevitable. Source: truth-out.org The perpetual cycle of planting mono-crops, saturating the crops and fields with toxic chemicals, tilling them under and replanting them destroys the soil and degrades the land by depleting soil nutrients and causing erosion. Overgrazing pastures instead of…

When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn’t run the picture. Source: www.theatlantic.com The hardware-focused coverage of the war removed the empathy that Jarecke says is crucial in photography, particularly photography that’s meant…

In light of the counter-revolutionary successes after Reagan and Powell, Herbert Marcuse’s ”philosophy of psychoanalysis” must be repurposed. Source: truth-out.org In light of the counter-revolutionary successes after Reagan and Powell, Marcuse’s “philosophy of psychoanalysis” in Eros and Civilization must be repurposed to go beyond the new system of violence so as to…

At last, here’s the video of NASA’s LDSD test—the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator system that will take a new rover to Mars, one even larger than Curiosity. It’s impressive to see the entire system in action, working like clockwork even while the supersonic parachute display failed. Source: sploid.gizmodo.com For those who…

The imagination can be the catalyst for collective liberation, but only if we embrace radical ideas and practices, and open ourselves to the possibility that our world could be radically different. Source: truth-out.org How can we understand the radical imagination as more than a hollow slogan?

Teaching the Platonic Dialogues through sandwiches, by Dr. M. Ritchey, PhD Source: medium.com

However much you admire the masters of uncanny or supernatural fiction, from MR James or Henry James to Sheridan Le Fanu and Walter de la Mare, you would be hard put to imagine any of them in the vicinity of Marianne Faithfull’s bed. Not so Robert Aickman – even if…

Source: www.goingmobo.com Rebooting is reprogramming yourself.  

Sterling Cooper & Partners would be nothing without the office savvy of Joan Harris. But as Christina Hendricks demonstrates in the new clip from Funny Or Die, the former Miss Holloway would be practically useless in a modern office environment. Erasing typos on the screen with an actual eraser, Source:…