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Work resuming on the tower

Blogging will resume here next week. Meanwhile…

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… over at Knowledge Ecology. My quick impression from chapter 1  is mixed: a promising start, followed by a sour turn and then something of a rebound.

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http://youtu.be/RuzP4-N-9DM Hat tip to Cheryl at World of Music, who shares her own slide show here. And this is child’s play compared to the tornadoes and flooding in this country’s midwest.

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Just the facts, Z, just the facts… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xped7A8oecM (from a three-month-old’s perspective) Incidentally, if there’s a single small book I’d recommend on life from this kind of perspective, it’s Daniel Stern’s Diary of a Baby. Stern was a favorite of Felix Guattari’s. That book can be followed up by the more scholarly The Interpersonal World […]

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Geniuses ‘r us (vegetarians)

Quick, name five genius scientists and inventors… Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison. All vegetarians? Of course. Elephant journal includes five others on its list. How about philosophers and cultural innovators? Pythagoras, Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha, Leo Tolstoy, Marsilio Ficino, Plato by some accounts… See here for a longer list.

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A couple of off-line conversations about the inspirational power of music and of SF (science/speculative fiction) have gotten me to dig up this old Facebook piece and to share it here. See bottom for details. I dedicate it to Little Rinpoche. 1. My best friend in kindergarten used to mix up mind and matter; he […]

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From “Naming Your Child: Guidance for Vermont Birth Certificates”, published by the Vermont Department of Health, 2009: “2) The name should use only letters, and should not include numbers (numeric characters) in it. As with other alphabets, if you want to include a number in your child’s name, you should spell it out in letters. […]

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Emergence

a new fold in the fabric of things, a novel bifurcation opening onto potentials of experience heretofore unexperienced. the many become one and are increased by one. zoryán 1 23 11

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Year ends

Here’s a handful of best-of-the-year stories collected from around the blogosphere (and beyond: Zero Anthropology (includes a top 10 of Wikileaks posts) Andy Revkin’s list of planet-sized events (and click on the BBC, Wired, NPR and Scientific American science stories of the year links for more in this vein) Grist’s top 10 green stories of […]

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The science gene

Pretty funny, if you haven’t seen it yet… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo?fs=1&hl=en_US H/t to Tom Cheetham.

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This is the new, improved version of Immanence. If you came here from the old one and had been a feed subscriber, blogroll linker, or just a regular reader of that one, I would love it if you’d do the same here. I’ll still be tweaking things here and there for a while as I […]

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gleanings

Scientists found that Asian and American brains respond completely differently when faced with images of dominance and submission, and when evaluating character traits of themselves as opposed to other people. Asians and Americans gathered with other world leaders to fiddle at a Mexican resort while buildings burned. [. . .] Graham Harman and Steven Shaviro got ready to slug it out in the middleweight neo-realist philosopher category of the international thought-wrestling society. [. . .]

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