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Recommended Anime, Manga, Prose and Live Action Cinema
Great resource. I avoid using popularity in making my choices. Instead I look at story quality, the level of cultural details and other creative elements. For this reason I have many titles which newer fans have never heard of, all titles I think fans should know about and hopefully have…
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A Nasty Piece of Cornbread: Chait, Coates, and White Progressivism
Originally posted on tressiemc: I once set out to write a book of southern aphorisms. It was going to be a serious treatment of (mostly) black (uniquely) southern “mother wit” as philosophy. Then, grad school and so on and so on. If I were to undertake a project today I…
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Inequality and Technology Syllabus
Originally posted on tressiemc: I am fascinated with U.S. sociology’s casual and sporadic engagement with digital spaces, technologies and trends. This year, the federal government enacted one of the most sweeping public policy initiatives we’ve seen since the Great Society programs. The healthcare exchange may not be everyone’s cup of…
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“Industrial Pictures Are Not Art”: Legendary Cult Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky on New Film ‘The Dance of Reality’ and How Hollywood Is Killing Cinema
A wonderful new piece from Flavorwire on Jador “…A potent blend of European art house theatrics, cult cinema madness, baroque violence, Eastern philosophy, Jungian tokens, and alluring depravity, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky have amassed a fervent following…”
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Crowd Control
Originally posted on The Dish: Michael Bond rejects the idea of the “crazed crowd,” noting research that indicates “people in crowds define themselves according to who they are with at the time; their social identity determines how they behave”: Years of field research have taught [researchers Clifford] Stott, [Stephen] Reicher…
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Moving forward with the Society of Control
Six reasons to fear the evolving alliance of the global corporate techno-economic progress machine and the national security state.
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Swarm and Fuzzy
When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting. They may not even have to don a space suit, instead simply walking down the gangplank in their civvies into a warm, well-lit Martian home. That’s because if we ever do colonize…
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Building a Movement for Happiness
Vermont and Bhutan have embraced happiness rather than GDP as a measure of social success. The world’s happiest countries share surprising characteristics – a small gap between rich and poor; work-life balance; urban design favoring community over cars; high degrees of interpersonal trust; a strong social safety net, and the…
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LGBT Representation In Mainstream Comics: A History | The Mary Sue
Next month is June, aka LGBT Pride Month. In anticipation of this, and because it is good and necessary to discuss representation in pop culture and media, we present to you this look at how LGBT content has been portrayed in mainstream American comic books. This is by no means…
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Soul Spelunker » Hermetic Intelligence
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The primary way the soul is deepened is through imagination. When we have new ideas about something we’re thinking about metaphorically, such as how a spiral exemplifies the movement of the soul, or how snowflakes are perfect mandalas, then we are functioning in the…
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Confirmed: An Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs –– Date confirmed to accuracy of +/- 11,000 years
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Scientists have unearth credible evidence to confirm a large asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs over 66 million years ago, it has been announced. This particular extinction event, which paved the way for the evolution of our species, has been attributed to…
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20,000+ FREE Online Science and Technology Lectures from Top Universities
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The following topics are covered: Aerospace, Anthropology, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Cognitive Science, Computers, Cosmology, Dentistry, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Environment, Future, General Science, Geoscience, Machine Learning, Material Science, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medicine, Metallurgy, Mining, Nanotechnology, Oceanography, Philosophy,…
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Transistors that wrap around tissues and morph with them
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Electronic devices that become soft when implanted inside the body and can deploy to grip 3-D objects, such as large tissues, nerves and blood vessels have been created by researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Tokyo. These biologically adaptive,…
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Where does coffee come from? A journey from bean to cup.
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions See on bizbrain.org
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What Makes an Alien Intelligent?
From the April 21 New Yorker. …even as the Kepler mission gets closer to finding a mirror image of our own planet, many scientists have ceased believing that we should be looking for ourselves in space. There are other ways for a planet to support life, they argue—and there are…
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Using Brain Research to Design Better eLearning…
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Jey principles from neuroscience research paired with tips that will allow course creators to achieve effective eLearning development. See on www.scoop.it
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Noam Chomsky and the Public Intellectual in Turbulent Times
…[Noam Chomsky’s] many recent books, articles, and interviews have addressed how the new reign of neoliberal capital is normalized not only through military and economic relations but also through the production of new forms of subjectivity organized around the enslavement of debt, the security-surveillance state, the corporatization of higher education,…
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