Tuesday, October 30, 2018

BuzzFeed: 19 Documentaries That You Won’t Be Able To Pause When You Start It


19 Documentaries That You Won't Be Able To Pause When You Start It
BuzzFeed

You will feel every emotion throughout watching one of these documentaries. Read the full story


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Monday, October 29, 2018

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Promote “Fair Markets,” Not “Free Markets” | OurFuture.org by People's Action

https://ourfuture.org/20150309/promote-fair-markets-not-free-markets


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The Conversation US: Alzheimer's disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause


Alzheimer's disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause
The Conversation US

New review finds that over 150 papers strongly support the view that herpes simplex plays a role in Alzheimer's disease. Read the full story


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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html

Here is how Wilson's "Odyssey" begins. Her fifth word is also her solution to the Greek poem's fifth word — to polytropos:

Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went, and who he met, the pain he suffered in the storms at sea, and how he worked to save his life and bring his men back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools, they ate the Sun God's cattle, and the god kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus, tell the old story for our modern times. Find the beginning.


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Monday, October 01, 2018

Interesting quote from "Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America"

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"Syncretism."

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Inform: Past, Present, Future

http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html


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'Combined weight of all the new surveillance technologies heading our way is a recipe for disaster, beyond Orwell’s wildest nightmares' | FactorDaily



All over the world, well-meaning men and women can see the potential problem and they always, always leap to prescribe exactly the wrong solution – "Don't look at us!" they howl. They demand that the elites – of government, corporate, criminal, technological – somehow accept rules that blind them.

But this cannot possibly work. We cannot cower and hide ourselves from elites.

The rate of technological development makes the use of the law to ban methods of vision intrinsically impossible. Cameras are getting cheaper, smaller, better, more mobile and more numerous each year at a rate that is much faster than Moore's Law. In a few years, cameras will be too small to detect, hidden in an earring or shirt button or in the corner of every pair of sunglasses.

If you make these technologies illegal, that will only effectively limit access by average citizens. Elites, the rich, intelligence services, the cops and criminals will still have them and use them. Stop and work it out.

Across all of time, elites have never allowed themselves to be blinded, with one exception. Only in the modern West and America are there some constraints on how much corporations and agencies and the rich can look. But those constraints only work if we can detect when they violate them! Think. The only way your approach can possibly work is if mine (citizen vision and elite accountability) is in place first!


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