science
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Socrates was Right
THE Greek founders of philosophy constantly debated how best to live the good life. Some contended that personal pleasure is the key. Others pointed out that serving society and finding purpose is vital. Socrates was in the latter camp, fiercely… Continue reading
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Gas Land
The Obama Administration has proposed new regulations for hydraulic fracturing on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands. The rules were written by the drilling industry and will be streamlined into effect by a new intergovernmental task force, established… Continue reading
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Mars lost its atmosphere 4bn years ago
A mysterious, catastrophic event tore away the atmosphere of Mars, according to the first detailed analysis of the make-up of the air on the Red Planet. A year after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, and having travelled a… Continue reading
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Cosmic gas cloud fights supermassive black hole | Science | guardian.co.uk
Supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has a gas cloud in its gravitational clutches – but the gas cloud isn’t giving up without a fight… The gas cloud was discovered in 2011 and shown to be on… Continue reading
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Daodejing 2
#2* Under-heaven all know the reason why the beautiful is beautiful: the existence of the ugly; All know the reason why the good is the good: the existence of the bad. Therefore, to-be and To-not-be beget One another, Difficulty and… Continue reading
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The Dragonfly: A Giant Winged Vertical Farm for New York City
Modeled after the wings of a dragonfly, this incredible urban farm concept for New York Citys Roosevelt Island intends to ease the problems of food mileage and shortage, and reconnect consumers with producers. Urban farming is a growing trend amongst… Continue reading
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Techno-Conspiracy and Control
A link here to a Big Think blog where Teddy Goff considers the power of technology in the Society of Control. Okay… you caught me! He does not call it the Society of Control. I mean, maybe he knows the… Continue reading
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The Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave, also commonly known as Myth of the Cave, Metaphor of the Cave, The Cave Analogy, or the Parable of the Cave, is an allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic… Continue reading
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Rolling Space Clouds
Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether. Related articles Wired Space Photo of the Day: Hoag’s Object (wired.com) Moon Lava (willscienceforfood.com) Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass (fox6now.com) Hubble picks up giant space… Continue reading
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Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil
Traditional long-established food systems and dietary patterns are being displaced in Brazil and in other countries in the South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) by ultra-processed products made by transnational food corporations (“Big Food” and “Big Snack”).This displacement increases… Continue reading
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Civilization’s jungle paths
Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site unearthed A ground-breaking archaeological discovery in Cambodia has revealed a colossal 700-year old urban landscape connecting ancient cities and temples to Angkor Wat. via Cambodia’s vast lost city: world’s greatest pre-industrial site… Continue reading
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[Harper’s Index] | July 2013
This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine: …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4 Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students… Continue reading
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Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker
We may be dealing here with a general principle of action… Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would… Continue reading
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Third Anniversary
Today, I am reminded by WordPress, is the 3rd anniversary of this blog, Reason & Existenz. Over 22000 views as of today. Hope to reach 23000 by July 04 weekend. Thanks so much to all of my good brothers &… Continue reading
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Twilighting Idolatries
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading
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Precautionary – Proactionary
My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores… Continue reading
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Welcoming a Friend to WordPress
My good colleague and friend J. Britt Holbrook has started up his new blog. I hope everyone will take a peek and give him some follows as well as some thoughtful feedback/commentary. While I have made my blog more of… Continue reading
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The ‘Broader Impacts’ of Sequestration on Science
My colleague Bob Frodeman has some suggestions about the interconnection of research & society in post-austerity world. Now that we’ve been driven off the “fiscal cliff,” perhaps we should look around and assess the results. It turns out that sequestration is… Continue reading
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