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Wolves of Wall Street: Financialization and American Inequality
It’s no secret by now that the recent spike in American inequality, and the gains rapidly accruing to those at the upper end of the income distribution ladder, are driven in large part by “financialization”—the growing scale and profitability of the financial sector relative to the rest of the economy,…
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Subsidizing Walmart
“Walmart receives an estimated $6.2 billion annually in mostly federal taxpayer subsidies. The reason: Walmart pays its employees so little that many of them rely on food stamps, health care and other taxpayer-funded programs.” “Walmart avoids an estimated $1 billion in federal taxes each year. The reason: Walmart uses tax…
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Hustling Nostalgia
Ghosthustler, a Denton, TX, band from about five years ago, came up in a discussion with my buddy-friend-guy today. Which brought us to listen to some of the old tunes. After we listened to all the stuff on Youtube, I figured I should share it with more folks who may…
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Supreme Court Gives Police New Power To Rely On Anonymous Tips
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The court ruled that police can stop and search a driver based solely on an anonymous 911 tip. The 5-4 decision split the court’s two most conservative justices. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: What a weird line up of votes on the SCOTUS to have…
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The Meritocracy Myth: How the Super-Rich Really Make Their Money
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions (Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Azureon2, bayat)PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Warren Buffett once claimed that the “geni… Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Case in point: "Checking the Stock Portfolio Every Morning… In one year the Forbes 400 ‘earned’…
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Art Everywhere US
Choose your favorite pieces of art to be displayed in the largest outdoor art event to take place in the US. Your votes will inform the final selection of 50 works of art that will appear on public displays such as billboards, bus shelters, subway posters, and more throughout August. via Art…
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Unravelling How Planaria Regenerate: Cut into 279 tiny pieces, each one regenerates to a full worm
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Researchers have begun teasing apart the genes behind regeneration. Planarian flatworms are one of nature’s little wonders. Although their ‘cross-eyed’ appearance is endearing, their real claim to fame comes from their regenerative ability. Split a planarian down the middle and you’ll soon have…
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Erik Davis on VALIS, P.K.D. and High Weirdness | Reality Sandwich
Great interview after the jump… As part of the inaugural reread series on Reality Sandwich, Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis and Nomad Codes, spoke with me recently about the “High Weirdness” of Philip K. Dick and the postmodern pink-gnosis of VALIS, a partly autobiographic scifi novel where Dick literally wrote himself into…
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What Should We Focus On Learning In An Age Where Almost All Information Is At Your Fingertips?
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions What should we focus on learning in an age where almost all information is at your fingertips? This question was originally answered on Quora by Robert Frost and Balaji Viswanathan. See on www.forbes.com
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The serious business of gamification
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Companies are using carefully constructed online games to change customer habits, motivate staff and seed innovation See on www.theglobeandmail.com
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Cymatics
Cymatics (from Greek: κῦμα “wave”) is the study of visible sound and vibration, a subset of modal phenomena. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste, or liquid.[1] Different patterns…
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Fact! Fracking Is Unhealthy
Gas extraction produces a range of potentially health-endangering pollutants at nearly every stage of the process, according to a new paper by the California nonprofit Physicians Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy, released last week in Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Institutes of Health. The…
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The Game of Thrones Sex Scene Can’t Be Both Rape and Not Rape
Spoiler alert for some… What happens when a particularly strange circumstance in the timeline of a book series is reimagined in a different time frame with different conditions for a TV adaptation? Changes the eventa great deal. If you watched Game of Thrones, S04E03 last night, you know what this…
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Reactions to ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ | Blog, Perspectives | BillMoyers.com
As Bill mentions in this week’s show, a lot of (digital) ink has been spilled over Piketty’s book. Reviewers have called it “a bulldozer of a book,” “magisterial,” “seminal,” “definitive,” “a watershed.” Below is a selection of reviews we think are worth reading, including several by previous Moyers & Company…
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What the 1% Don’t Want You to Know | BillMoyers.com
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy – the very system our founders revolted against. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: A new book that’s the talk of academia and the media, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, a 42-year-old who…
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Enjoying the powerless features of Democracy
Not really all that amazing but it does make one want to say something facile like “amazing” . Plutocracy is alive and thriving while the great mass of citizens play at republican democracy, enjoying all the best features–like voting, a good amount of freedom of speech, a certain amount of…
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