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From Metaphysics to Poetic Dwelling: Heidegger’s Task of Thinking
Originally posted on Isaddictedtothemusic: A forthcoming thinker, who might want to attempt the task to adopt the thinking which I am trying to set up, he will have to cope with an idea written by Heinrich von Kleist. I wrote it down in one of my notebooks: ‘I step back…
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Facebook’s vision for social VR is misguided (Wired UK)
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Mark Zuckerberg envisions a world where you strap on a pair of goggles and, through the wonders of virtual reality, you meet face-to-face with your doctor. Mark Zuckerberg is wrong. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "This is really a new social platform," Zuckerberg said Tuesday…
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March – Exploding stars prove Newton’s law of gravity unchanged over cosmic time – Swinburne University of Technology
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Australian astronomers have combined all observations of supernovae ever made to determine that the strength of gravity has remained unchanged over the last nine billion years. See on www.swinburne.edu.au
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World’s Highest Wind Turbine Will Hover Above Alaska – IEEE Spectrum
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Bonus: it could provide cell service See on spectrum.ieee.org
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Secrets Of Earth’s Past Discovered In Famous Paintings
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Turns out there’s way more to art than its aesthetic appeal. New research by Greek and German scientists suggests that some of the world’s most celebrated landscape paintings may reveal information about pollution levels in Earth’s past that could he… Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight:…
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Language will outlive us – By Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “A poet always knows that what in the vernacular is called the voice of the Muse is, in reality, the dictate of language; that it’s not the language that happens to be his instrument, but that he i… See on awestruckwanderer.wordpress.com
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Can Heritage Foundation Posterboy Bono Save the GOP?
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsThe U2 frontman wants to save the world. Why shouldn’t he save Republicans, too? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: "…The journey of the celebrity artist or entrepreneur is today the most culturally significant journey people make from low status and high vulnerability to the reverse. Artists…
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Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy (Andragogy, Heutagogy) of Mobile Learning
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now to Web 3.0 can be used a metaphor of how education should also be evolving, as a movement based on the evolution from Education 1.0 to Educa… See on usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com
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How Did Toast Become the Latest Artisanal Food Craze?
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsHow did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: …’ Why all the toast? “Tip of the hipster spear,” he said. I had two reactions to this: First, of course, I rolled…
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The Germ Theory of Democracy, Dictatorship, and Your Cherished Beliefs
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsIs culture just a side effect of the struggle to avoid disease? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: ‘…Thornhill is confident in the evidence underlying his theory, and relatively untroubled by the implications. “If you increase health then people will become more liberal and happier,” he told…
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Waking Life Bed Scene with Ethan Hawke
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Waking Life bed scene with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. A discussion of collective memory, collective unconscious, originality, and the death of the author. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: … multiple discovery purports that ideas are not “created” or “invented,” but rather simply “found” or “reached,”…
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Radiation Leak at New Mexico Nuclear Waste Storage Site Highlights Problems
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A recent fire and radiation release at New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant uranium repository has brought renewed focus on the problem of what to do with a growing stockpile of radioactive waste and spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors. See on truth-out.org
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Granting “Personhood” Status for Great Apes
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Humans are classified by biologists as Great Apes, along with orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. And geneticists inform us that we share 98 percent of our DNA with chimps. Yet all the… See on rogerdhansen.wordpress.com
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Teen Wolf reinvigorated season three by making a hero the villain
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah PerceptionsThe second half of Teen Wolf’s third season began as a literal nightmare within a nightmare within a dream.See on www.avclub.com
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Revisiting the Loving Struggle
Some videos I made a few years back to take folx along a meandering path toward Karl Jaspers’ notion of the “Loving Struggle.”
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Some More on Loving Struggle
After a few days of rest, meditation, and a couple of public dialogs, the importance of existential communication or loving struggle became all the more clear to me. So, near the end of the evening, I sat down with my Jaspers and my texts about Jaspers. I found good insights…
