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Apple’s Tim Cook Calls on Alabama to Protect Gay Rights: Mr. Cook said his home state was too slow to guarantee minority rights during the civil rights era and that it was now too slow to ensure the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Cursos de T�cnico Investigador en Demonolog�a Online: Requisitos: Personas interesadas en adquirir los conocimientos específicos de la Demonología esa rama de la teología y de la mitología que se encarga del estudio de los demonios y sus relaciones, haciendo alusión a sus orígenes y naturaleza.
The Song of Angry Women • Up Front • Public Address: It's been a rough couple of weeks to be a woman. If the last couple of weeks were a person, it would cat-call a thirteen year old, punch her in the face, get her drunk and rape her at a...
The elements of journalism: In their book The Elements of Journalism, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel identify the essential principles and practices of journalism. Here are 10 elements common to good journalism, drawn from the book. Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth Good decision-making depends on people having reliable, accurate facts put in a meaningful context. Journalism does… The post The elements of journalism appeared first on American Press Institute.
Much of the U.S. is about to go into an extended deep freeze: While bouts of cold air are typical during November, the weather pattern that is taking shape will favor repeated blasts of air straight from the Arctic.
Harassment of women on Twitter? We’re ON IT. | WAM!: We are so excited to announce our latest project: an unprecedented collaboration with Twitter to address the online harassment of women. The vicious targeting of women who speak up online has reached crisis levels.
Single Girl Chronicles: I don’t know if I should publish this. Because then some people won’t want to date me. And that would be sad.
How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? - NYTimes.com: Catching Up Temporary relief for the sleep-deprived on trains and in airports in the New York area. We all know that we don t get enough sleep. But how much sleep do we really need? Until about 15…
A Moment Before Dying (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought): There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent. For Alex, that…
The internet begins to finish the job that Aaron Swartz started, at the rate of a paper per minute | Neurobonkers | Big Think: Last Friday Aaron Swartz committed suicide, shortly before his Federal trial was due to begin. According to the US Attorney’s press release, “if convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a ...
Sokushinbutsu: The Bizarre Practice of Self Mummification | Amusing Planet
The Best Culture Writing Of 2014: A simple tool for saving web pages to read later on your iPhone, iPad, Android, computer, or Kindle.
El chayote, origen y paternidad: ...
'Andar nos ense�a a desobedecer': A Kant, Rousseau, Rimbaud y Nietzsche les gustaba salir a andar. Todos lo hac�an de forma diferente. Los paseos del joven Rimbaud, dispersos y desordenados, estaban llenos de ira,
El arte de perderse: Rebecca Solnit reivindica el deambular como metáfora de una nueva forma de estar en el mundo
Thomas Pynchon and Brian Wilson: In the mid-1960s, both Thomas Pynchon and the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson were forging new creative paths in their respective art forms. Both artists, fueled by visions partially — or significantly — enhanced by the ingesting of psychedelics, were attempting to capture these visions in their work. Pynchon, in his groundbreaking third novel Gravity’s Rainbow,…
Astrophysicists Prove That Cities On Earth Grow in the Same Way As Galaxies in Space | MIT Technology Review: The way galaxies evolve from variations in matter density in the early universe is mathematically equivalent to the way cities grow from changes in population density on Earth, say cosmologists.
Derailment (thought disorder) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: In psychiatry, derailment (also loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, or entgleisen) is a thought disorder characterized by discourse consisting of a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas. The frame of reference often changes from...
How the Universe Made the Stuff That Made Us - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus: A Hubble Telescope image of the Homunculus Nebula, a cloud of material formed by nucleosynthesis in Eta Carinae. The star is spewing…
The Wire - Burial: Unedited Transcript: Mark Fisher's unedited transcript of his interview with underground dubstep artist Burial Wire: Vocals were always central to your sound, but they have become even more important on this album than they were on your first LP. Burial: I was brought up on old jungle...
72 hours in Detroit | Electronic Beats Magazine: Electronic Beats is the international music program by Telekom. All activities share a virtual home at electronicbeats.net, where the latest news on artists and events meet with reports on travel, art, design and fashion.
Danceteria, Studio 54 and other legendary clubs and parties in NYC: Hark back to clubland’s hallowed past with testimonies from people who were at Danceteria, Studio 54 and other influential spots.
Carol Kaye: The First Lady of Rock Guitar and Bass: In a 1981 interview, rock legend Carol Kaye describes her decades playing bass and guitar on countless Top-10 hit singles, famous films, and TV shows.
Awake within a dream: lucid dreamers show greater insight in waking life: People who are aware they are asleep when they are dreaming have better than average problem-solving abilities, new research has discovered.
The Most Dangerous Ideas In Science: There's a battle going on over the methods we can use to get answers for the biggest cosmic questions humans can ask. Astrophysicist Adam Frank explains why it's a contest over the future of science.
Ang Lee on Ingmar Bergman: Two years ago, you recorded an introduction for the Criterion Collection DVD of Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, a film that had a tremendous impact... The post Ang Lee on Ingmar Bergman appeared first on Cinephilia & Beyond.
Noveller: Noveller’s music is a kind of magic. It lives in a special place, kept away from the ferocity of the world. Noveller’s natural chimes...
How to build a human: An animated guide to human embryo and fetus development.
DAGGER INTERVIEWS!: If all Frontier Records' Lisa Fancher did was release 2 records, The s/t debut by The Adolescents and the sophomore effort from San Francisco's American Music Club (ENGINE) then I would have been satisfied for the rest of my life...
Who's Who: These owls may wear the same game face, but when it comes to personality, they’re as different as day and night.
Neil Young Comes Clean: 'The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself.'
The Road to Recovery with Slint’s David Pajo: Slint guitarist David Pajo has had an extraordinarily colourful career. Aside from spearheading the aforementioned Louisville post rock band's genre-defining sound on the likes of their landmark 1991 album Spiderland, he has also released several albums under his own name, Papa M, Aerial and M, as well as playing with the likes of Zwan, Yeah…
Why I deleted my Twitter account, and why I’m back.: Last night, around midnight, I deleted my Twitter account. I also blocked a handful of Twitter users — given the hostile…
Manual del valedor; por @Antonioortugno: Acá enlisto algunos consejos retóricos para quien desee apartarse de la masa y singularizarse por defender o aún enaltecer a las figuras públicas que incurren en cochupos, desvíos, ostentaciones indecorosas o flagrantes conflictos de interés
Don't Forget What Richard Pryor Taught Us: Offensive Comedy Can Be Liberating: Keep this in mind the next time someone tries to police the borders of comedy.
I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me: How a simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice took over the American college campus.
Cuerpos precarios: Judith Butler y la violencia en México - horizontal: Miriam Jerade La obra de Judith Butler ofrece distintas categorías (precaridad, precariedad, vulnerabilidad, abyección, duelo...) para pensar la violencia en las sociedades contemporáneas. Este ensayo revisa algunos de los conceptos clave de la teórica estadounidense a la vez que observa a través de ellos la precaria realidad mexicana. El pasado 25 de marzo en una …
¿Ciudadanos vs. clientes? El espacio público en la ciudad de México - horizontal: Alejandra Leal Martínez En la discusión pública mexicana se ha favorecido a la figura de un "ciudadano moderno" e ideal en contraste con un "cliente" corrupto y premoderno. Esta oposición se hace evidente en los conflictos alrededor del espacio público en la Ciudad de México. Es ahí, en la disputa sobre el "rescate" de ciertos …
El despojo infinito: México visto a través de David Harvey - horizontal: Alejandro de Coss Pocos teóricos sociales contemporáneos más importantes que el geógrafo inglés David Harvey. Este ensayo retoma algunas de sus ideas principales –en particular, su concepto de “acumulación por despojo”– para pensar la realidad mexicana. México está inmerso en una sucesión interminable de catástrofes. Día a día las noticias de nuevas injusticias y atroces …
HIGHWAY TO HELL - ROUTE 666 IN UTAH: Route 666 is a lonely, deserted stretch of road with a long history of accidents and ...
I Was a Young, Broke Lawyer When I Found the Perfect Job On Craigslist…: My company settled tax debt “for pennies on the dollar.” But really I was the one settling.
Deep time’s uncanny future is full of ghostly human traces – David Farrier | Aeon Ideas: Late one summer night in 1949, the British archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes went out into her small back garden in north London, and lay down. She sensed the bedrock covered by its thin layer of soil, and felt the hard ground pressing her flesh agai...
Cursos de T�cnico Investigador en Demonolog�a Online: Requisitos: Personas interesadas en adquirir los conocimientos específicos de la Demonología esa rama de la teología y de la mitología que se encarga del estudio de los demonios y sus relaciones, haciendo alusión a sus orígenes y naturaleza.
Van Morrison's mystic: By MIKA ROSS-SOUTHALL “Who's the Brown Eyed Girl?”, someone called out from the audience at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on Monday night. After a pause, Van Morrison replied: “she’s called ‘faction’”. The packed auditorium shook with laughter. “She’s a composite”, Morrison continued, “not based on any one person. It’s the same thing when writing songs as it is with novels and films.” It was a unique evening – partly because Morrison isn’t known for talking – of “words and music” to launch a book of lyrics, Lit Up Inside, that spans fifty years of his songwriting. Alongside Morrison, Dr...
Talking With Sean Young: "Crazy" in Hollywood, Supporting Trump, and a Career That's "Mostly Over": On Friday of last week, for about 40 minutes, as she rode home to Astoria from her tap-dancing lesson, I spoke to Sean Young, the actor who rose to fame in 1982's Blade Runner and then subsequently “saw my career go up in flames” in a series of professional setbacks (among them: she lost the role of Vicki Vale in 1989's Batman when she fell off a horse, and was fired from 1990's Dick Tracy).
How were 1.5 billion acres of land so rapidly stolen? – Claudio Saunt | Aeon Essays: The story of Native American dispossession is too easily swept aside, but new visualisations should make it unforgettable
A Hard Day's Surfin' Safari: When Brian Met Macca . By Derek Taylor : Articles, reviews and interviews from Rock's Backpages.: A Hard Day's Surfin' Safari: When Brian Met Macca . By Derek Taylor, World Countdown News, 1967. Part of Rock's Backpages, The ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism. Thousands of articles, interviews and reviews from the world's best music writers and critics, from the late 1950s to the present day. Read the best writing on rock music here. /
New Order: Why Europe made us what we are today: Bernard Sumner recounts his cultural European journey, from the early days of Joy Division to New Order’s latest album
The quantum computers of the future will work equally well with encrypted and unencrypted inputs: When future users of quantum computers need to analyze their data or run quantum algorithms, they will often have to send encrypted information to the computer.
How Quantum Computers Would Destroy Today’s Encryption Methods: Enormous strides are being taken toward the realization of true quantum computing. Quantum computing will neutralize current methods of classical cryptography, but at the same time could replace it with a more secure quantum cryptography. The post How Quantum Computers Would Destroy Today’s Encryption Methods appeared first on Futurism.
Kidnapped in Syria: A daring war photographer throws himself into the middle of a bloody civil war. Three months later, he is lucky to escape with his life.
Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Bullying and Online Trolling in 1847: "Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence."
Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Bullying and Online Trolling in 1847: "Showing that they don’t care about me, or caring that I should know they don’t care about me, still denotes dependence."
Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away: With government often more the problem than the solution, communities are taking matters into their own hands. But gains against crime can carry a cost.
Investigators into mass murder of Mexican student teachers were attacked with NSO's government spyware: Investigators into mass murder of Mexican student teachers were attacked with NSO's government spyware
A deep dive into the New York Times’ UFO report: How does a NY Times story about UFOs link together the Pentagon, Harry Reid, aliens and Blink-182?
Descubierta una nueva propiedad del grafeno que revolucionará el mundo de la física: Imagínese que pudiera cortar en láminas extremadamente finas, de tan solo un átomo de espesor, la viruta que se obtiene al sacarle punta a un lápiz. Si a continuación observara esas láminas al...
Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid’s Tale: Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid’s Tale has done both. The Handmaid’s Tale has not been out of print since it was first published, back in 1985. It has sold millions of copies worldwide and has appeared in a bewildering number of translations and editions. It has become a sort…
Not just any rock memoir, but a “beautiful one”: Door: Dennis Kersten © foto: Simon Q There is a fantastic anecdote in Brett Anderson’s memoir, Coal Black Mornings (2018) about how the Suede singer as a teenager listened to his favourite post-punk...