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Saturday, August 30, 2014

Largest outdoor arts festival in North America

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A Look Inside the Burning Man Festival Burning Man, held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, is the largest outdoor arts festival in North Amer...

"Preserving and expanding the world of sustainable order is the leadership challenge of our time"

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Order vs. Disorder, Part 3 [...] Seidman looks at the world through the framework of “freedom from” and “freedom to.” In recent years, he a...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

OSU: Languages and Small Farming

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I was looking at on-line language learning classes, and discovered that Oregon State University has one of the best on-line language learnin...

"Provoking Emotions" = "Political Intolerance"

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I guess it's good or bad, depending on if you are in power or not: S. African President Walks Out of Parliament Amid Chaos [...] Ear...

USB Devices and Malware Attacks

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New Flaws in USB Devices Let Attackers Install Malware: Black Hat [...] In a blog post providing more insight into the talk, Nohl and Lell...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Is Google Plus the next Borg? IMO, it's TMSTDW

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It sure looks like they are angling to be! I found this video kinda funny, kinda creepy: It was kinda informative too. It certainly na...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Esperanto as a bridge for language learners

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In a previous post about Esperanto , the video below, a talk at TEDx, was referenced. I recently got around to watching it: Published on...

"Blondie", Satanism, and Christian Contemplativism

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Two more interesting posts on the Philosophy for Life blog: Crowley’s Children A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog-post analysing the ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Distraction as a form of Therapy

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These are from a philosophy blog I posted about last week: Distraction therapy, or ‘shut up and deal’ [...] Sometimes, in the darkness, w...

Not another NYT opinion piece on "inequality"?

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Yes. And no. It starts by talking about Thomas Pikety's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", which everyone is talking...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Would robots be better or worse for people?

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There are conflicting opinions: Pew: Split views on robots’ employment benefits WASHINGTON — In 2025, self-driving cars could be the nor...
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A real "Warp Drive" for Space Travel

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I had posted about this previously . Here is a video, talking about a possible prototype, if experiments on earth justify further research:...
Saturday, August 02, 2014

Who was Epicurus? And more.

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This blog page is probably the best thing I've read about Epicurus and Epicurians, it's answered most of my questions: EPICUREANS ...

A final blog post

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Not from me, but from the Being Human blog, which I had been reading because of the interesting links to philosophy. His last entry talks ...

A propulsion drive without fuel?

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Yes, and it may take us to Mars: EmDrive Is an Engine That Breaks the Laws of Physics and Could Take Us to Mars An experimental engine i...

Do Cats Really Rule?

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Not everywhere, but in overall numbers, perhaps yes: Where cats are more popular than dogs in the U.S.—and all over the world We all kno...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

The evolution of AI (Artificial Intelligence)

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I've posted previously about how slow it will be , that we won't have something approaching human intelligence anytime soon. But, e...

A Chinese Fly from Hell

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This looks scary: Giant flying bug with fangs discovered in China Researchers in China have found what is clearly the most frightening ...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Esperanto, a created, living language

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I thought it was a kind of dead language, like Klingon. But apparently, it's not: The creator of Esperanto, L.L. Zamenhoff , was a ...
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The evolving demos, raised living standards

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Why did the British surge ahead during the industrial evolution? Would you believe, it was awareness of numbers, and patience? How learni...