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Cursos de Tecnico Investigador en Demonologia 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.
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 ...
'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.; 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…
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.
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 …
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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...
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
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.
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?
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…