February 2012
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The EU & Greece: A capitalism that has persuaded... →
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“Americans eat oysters but not snails. The French eat snails but not locusts. The...”
– Ian Robertson, Sociology [1987], pg.67
The diversity of our languages, customs, and expressive behaviors confirms that much of our behavior is socially programmed, not hardwired.
(via shizumataka)
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Chris Hedges turns on OWS with divisive slurs. Gramsci says told you so…
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At Conservative Conference, Retired Police Officer...
Yesterday at CPAC, the conservative convention held this week in Washington D.C., Republic Report ran into retired police officer and anti-drug war activist Howard Wooldridge. We were interested in his take on the role of money in politics in the government’s crusade against marijuana. He explained that cynical lobbyists, who place their clients interests over America, have perpetuated the cycle...
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“The riots bothered me a great deal, on two counts. First, nothing really has...”
– Stuart Hall
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Latin American Leaders Condemn US Drug Policy →
letterstomycountry:
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With transit countries facing some of the highest homicide rates in the world, so great is the frustration that the leaders are demanding that the United States and Europe consider steps toward legalization if they do not curb their appetite for drugs.
Drug use has not meaningfully declined at any time in the recent past, or at any time over the course of the...
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“By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can...”
– George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (via chasingsunsetsandjustice)
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“the area of suitable sedimentary formations in the region of continental shelf...”
– IBRU Boundary and Security Bulletin July 1994
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
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“I am reminded of an apocryphal story about the American newspaperman who went to...”
– Mayr, E., in Mead, M., T. Dobzhansky et al., eds., Science and the Concept of Race (New York, 1967), p. 104.
Why economic inequality leads to collapse →
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The Story of a Suicide →
itsjustsex:
Two college roommates, a webcam, and a tragedy. By Ian Parker
If anything can take me out of my posting rut, it’s this article from The New Yorker. Ian Parker brings to light many things related to the Tyler Clementi suicide case and his roommate Dharun Ravi in particular. While I was never really sure what kind of person Ravi was, this article certainly confirms he is an asshole....
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“When democratic politics can no longer shape the discussion about how we should...”
– Mouffe 2002
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“I think that anthropology (and the other social sciences) are the ideological...”
– Esther Newton (1940~), Mother Camp (via literary-ethnography)
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“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left...”
– Margaret Mead (via gypsytreasures)
Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books →
Bestselling Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is joining in with a new promotion on the notorious file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, and calling on “pirates of the world” to “unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written”.
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“Either we have hope within us or we do not. It is a dimension of the soul and is...”
– Web of Hope. Resurgence 219, July/August 2003: quoting Havel in 1990 writing
January 2012
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“It’s the oldest trick in the book. You create the illusion of terror, then you...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City
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“Nationalism provides Eurocentric solutions to a Eurocentric global problem as it...”
– Ramón Grosfoguel
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“How then, are we to interpret the current mess? Does this crisis signal, for...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital (via pragmatica)
“The existing Victorian system of education was created to mass-produce identical...”
– can changing how we teach make our kids smarter, more creative?
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“In Chicago , for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of...”
– Adolph Reed in the Village Voice, 1998
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“The world was saved from the terrors of the great depression not by some...”
– David Harvey, The Limits to Capital, afterword (via daplaney)
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Amazing Spider-Man poster 3
cakesandcomics:
Here is my final poster for The Amazing Spider-Man. With this one I wanted a moodier feel with an 80’s vibe going on… I hope folks like it! Matt.
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The Educational Lottery →
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“On Foucault’s account, modern control of sexuality parallels modern control of...”
– Gutting, Gary, “Michel Foucault”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/foucault/>. (via hummussexual)
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An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our Universe
The bottom line is, I think, very clear; there really are planets everywhere, and they must number in the hundreds of billions in the Milky Way.
Thus, the sheer abundance of planets profoundly impacts the nature of our exploration of the universe and our quest to understand our own significance or insignificance. There is nothing trivial about the discovery of planetary plentitude, because it...
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“The owner of the biggest art gallery in St. Louis has far less influence on...”
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A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
William H. Sewell, Jr.
The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 1. (Jul., 1992), pp. 1-29.
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“You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under...”
– - Spencer Wells, PhD, Genetic Anthropologist, Explorer In Residence, National Geographic Society (via wearerising)
Cool job title - Explorer In Residence. Although one would think an explorer would definitely not be in residence but out and about somewhere. Maybe they are exploring from their...
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WatchWow!
This is Teahupo’o, a break off the coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia. The waves here literally suck water off the reef below, creating a vortex that puts the back of the wave at sea level. It’s some of the fastest, thickest waves in the world.
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Sleep Is the Interest We Have to Pay on the...
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
So wrote Arthur Schopenhauer, comparing life to finance in a universe that must keep its books balanced. At birth you receive a loan, consciousness and light borrowed from the void, leaving a hole...
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“Credit default swaps [financial insurance policies] are to “hedging”...”
– Marshall Auerbach
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“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– MLK on the radical challenge presented by growing materialism
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“As the great classicist Moses Finley often liked to say, in the ancient world,...”
– David Graeber (via azspot)
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“Wealth, if limits are not set for it, is great poverty.”
– Epicurus (via quotemarx)
Alan Moore at Occupy London →