May 2012
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The spirituality of Math
This things hit you in a strike, you are lying on the sofa and there it is: the spirituality of Math. All of a sudden you understand what Pythagoras was on all along. All of a sudden you can relate to Bertrand Russell when he says that Mathematics is the key source to the belief in an eternal and exact truth as well as in a transcendental and unintelligible world. It seems like the only kind of...
May 31st
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May 31st
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Die Grünen finden Atomforschung... →
May 24th
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“Pamuja Tutashinda!”
– Together we will win - Suaheli
May 22nd
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PROTEST IN VIENNA: Patrick Bongola aka TOPOKE was... →
May 15th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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WatchWatch
If you don’t know who Maurice Sendak is (was) and why he is (still is) so cool. Then you really have to watch this video! Stephen Cobert interviews Maurice Sendak
May 8th
April 2012
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"When more than 90 percent of ever-married women... →
Apr 30th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Polizisten an Bakary J.:”Du Motherfucker, wir... →
Apr 25th
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NEWS: Verurteilter Sicherheitsreferent Mitarbeiter... →
Soviel zur FPÖ Sicherheitspolitik. Der Notruf zum ANHÖREN! (Das Bild ist verpixelt, hier geht es klarer: http://www.fpoe-wien.at/index.php?id=1200&maID=2000&cHash=4efbfa09420ca9475176b85a63f7a641)
Apr 25th
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“[The Catholic Church] barely protested when the last president authorized...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via letterstomycountry)
Apr 25th
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“To be female and poor in itself attracts a unique stigma. The 1980s saw the...”
– The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the ‘welfare queen’ | openDemocracy (via sociolab)
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 18th
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Opinion: Why Latinos should reject class warfare
nbclatino: (Photo Courtesy 401k)  BY ISRAEL ORTEGA  Just in time for the start of the general election, President Obama is seeking to cast himself as a man of the people by pushing for a millionaire’s tax to promote a more equitable and fair society. It’s a predictable pitch that the president has campaigned on before. As his argument goes, the wealthy must pay their “fair share” in order to...
Apr 16th
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Apr 11th
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Jennifer Lopez & Wisin y Yandel want you to...
univisionnews: By AMARIS CASTILLO Channel: Entertainment  We gotta tip our hats off to Jennifer Lopez’s omnipresence. Seems like she’s on a race with Pitbull to see who can multi-task the most. No Spring Break for them. Read More Sounds nice! My forecast: It will hit the dance floors very hard in the next weeks
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 8th
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"I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people,...
MLK Jr. Probably the most powerful speech caught on tape, ever! On a day like this Martin Luther King, the greatest of all american organizers was shot dead. Let’s remember him!
Apr 4th
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“Es chevere ser grande pero es mas grande ser chevere - Hector Lavoe”
– (via lajuerga) Genial!
Apr 4th
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¡Qué bárbaro Latin Jazz! - Quantic and his Combo...
When sorting some of my records lately, I stumbled upon the work of a great musician: Quantic a.k.a Will Holland. The work of this England-born musician goes through a wide spectrum of rhythms, from cumbia to hip hop through jazz and soul. The result is fantastic!! On the link at the bottom, a song of on of his many projects Quantic and his Combo Barbaro. Linda Morena is just a fabulous song with...
Apr 3rd
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March 2012
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Mar 31st
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“Love is eternal while it lasts”
– Vinicius de Moraes - From Doce Cuentos Peregrinos by Gabriel García Márquez
Mar 31st
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“If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not the same...”
– Bertrand Russell, (Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech) Human Society in Ethics and Politics (via philphys)
Mar 28th
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“The net neutrality debate is the latest manifestation of a fundamental divide...”
– News for all the People, Juan González and Joseph Torres (2011) - The book review is coming soon. Don’t miss it!
Mar 24th
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“The financial importance of Indian removal to the Southern oligarchy is not...”
– News for all the People, Juan González and Joseph Torres (2011) - Book review coming over the next weeks. Stay tuned.
Mar 23rd
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“We believe Old Media’s crisis was largely a result of self-inflichted...”
– Juan González and Joseph Torres in News For All The People (2011) - The Book review is coming over the next weeks. Stay tuned!
Mar 21st
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Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 17th
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“In the welter of conflicting fanaticisms, one of the few unifying forces is...”
– Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (via philphys)
Mar 15th
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Happy Birthday (1879) Albert Einstein
newsweek: nwkarchivist: A plain, wooden yardstick traveling with the speed of light- 186,000 miles a second- would shrink into nothingness; a person moving faster than a ray of light could see history going backward like a movie film in reverse.  These statements may seen like scientific hocus-pocus, but they are everyday logic to Albert Einstein. Newsweek April 4, 1938 This is a cover...
Mar 14th
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“My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, First Fig (via philphys)
Mar 12th
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“Libertarians, hearing such a description, run gagging to the sink. There are no...”
– Thomas Fleming, Chronicles of Culture Crying. (via mohandasgandhi)
Mar 12th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 6th
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WatchWatch
hesmithian: Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer who recently gave an inspiring TED Talk about racial injustice. Stevenson founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive, unfair and racist sentencing. This is a rare TED Talk for confronting issues of racial injustice„, more. it’s pretty...
Mar 6th
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Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
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February 2012
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“Send your propaganda agents around the country, and make it appear that we are...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Feb 25th
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“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has...”
– Stendhal, The Red and the Black (via bookmania)
Feb 25th
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent...”
– Charles Darwin (via hasty-g)
Feb 15th
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“We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have other spoken for us … From...”
– Freedom’s Journal, March 16th, 1827 Taken from News for all the People by Juan González and Joseph Torres ; 2011 — The Freedom’s Journal was the first black-owned Newspaper in America. The quote comes from their inaugural issue.
Feb 2nd
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