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HuffPost: Margarita Recipe Taste Test: Are Expensive Tequilas & Orange Liqueurs Worth The Price?


Margarita Recipe Taste Test: Are Expensive Tequilas & Orange Liqueurs Worth The Price?
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America doesn't give the margarita the respect it deserves. ... Read the full story


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Against guilty pleasures: Adorno on the crimes of pop culture | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/against-guilty-pleasures-adorno-on-the-crimes-of-pop-culture

He would later write of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which premiered in 1913, that it represented an 'uproar of culture against its own essence as culture' which is 'enjoyed as an enticement precisely in its opposition to civilisation'. The ballet's 'flirtation with barbarism' was not merely musical – it reflected social facts, and indeed showed evidence of a kind of cultural trend towards regression, and of the domination of the individual by the social whole.

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Ars Technica: New studies zero in on roots of depression and why ketamine reverses it


New studies zero in on roots of depression and why ketamine reverses it
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Understanding the biology may help us develop more targeted therapies. Read the full story


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Tesla impact prob

We estimate the dynamical lifetime of the Tesla to be a few tens of millions of years.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.04718.pdf

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.



Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.

From Politics, a Flipboard magazine by bradahill22

BERLIN — Contrary to what you may sometimes hear, school shootings are not unique to the United States. Germany, for instance,…

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Germans as free kids


the German approach, focused on childhood independence, is more humane and respectful than the prevailing American bourgeois ethos of sequestered play dates and recess-bereft schooldays
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6 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read ASAP - Riveted



6 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read ASAP - Riveted

From Literature , a Flipboard magazine by de SanDoVal

Not too long ago, if someone asked me if I liked sci-fi novels my immediate answer would be no. For some reason, I never wanted to pick up a book set in…

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Grand Canyon North Rim: Hotels, camping, hiking and scenic drives

Check out this article from azcentral:

Grand Canyon North Rim: Hotels, camping, hiking and scenic drives

http://azc.cc/1TcTSzP


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