February 2012
6 posts
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors...”
– Michael Ellner (via deepblank)
January 2012
16 posts
“The delight and relish in the physicality of language – your savoring of its...”
– Andrew Wade (via xle)
“Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an...”
– Aldous Huxley (via a-higher-level)
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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never...”
– A. Philip Randolph
Making Sense of the Radio Spectrum →
visualoop:
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“Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white...”
– Carl Sagan (via myheadisweak)
“While a sudden, massive crisis of the American system — for instance, another...”
– After America (via nomind-allthought)
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November 2011
14 posts
You know the phrase "six degrees of separation"?... →
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via heartmindspirit)
10 Reasons America Will Be Judged As The Most... →
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Remember- by Robert Theobald
A plaque on Cortes Island,
Bade me “Remember”
But remember “what?”
The past certainly.
But should I recall my small joys and sorrows,
Or our violent histories, with their wars and battles.
And do I hug past injustices to my breast,
Or do I look for reconciliation.
Remember what?
The future certainly.
The fan of possibilities,
That determine the world our...
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inequality makes for revolutionary timez →
October 2011
54 posts
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Noam Chomsky Quotes: Chomsky on the IMF →
thirdworldtraveler:
“Take the IMF. The IMF is not the World Bank, but it’s closely related. The IMF’s former U.S. executive director Karin Lissakers accurately described the Fund as the credit community’s enforcer. The IMF is very anti-capitalist. For example, suppose I lend you money. And I…
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“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde (via mrgolightly)
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laws of time (management) →
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excellently written piece on #OWS and the media →
i love dna →
“If we think of the genome as sentences, your DNA, or letters are what is inherited from your father and mother. The DNA methylation is like the punctuation marks that determine how the letters should be combined into sentences and paragraphs that are read differently in the different organs of the body the heart, the brain, and so on,” Szyf explains. ”What we’ve learned is that these punctuation...
Write Every Day →
thesonalsorises:
Creative writing advice from Columbia’s PhD Associate Dean.
Not all of the advice we offer in these postings may work for you – but this one will: Write every day. Write something. Every day. Easier said than done, right? Here are some suggestions for making it happen.
If you haven’t written for at least 15 minutes today, start right now.
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the... →
AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
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