Author: Daniela

  • Etymology of the word idiot – care of Jim Hightower

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    Recounting his speech earlier this month to the Denison (Texas) High School Class of 2013, Hightower recently wrote: “Idiotes were not people with low-watt brains, but individuals who cared only about themselves, refusing to participate in public efforts to benefit the larger community – the common good. The Greeks, I told the students, considered such…

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  • Try It – It Works!

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    This picture was taken with a camera 70,000 x 30,000 pixels (2100 MegaPixels). It can identify a face in a multitude. The cameras are not sold to the public and are being installed in strategic locations.  (This one is in Canada) Place the cursor in the multitude of people and left double click a couple…

  • Resolved in the morning

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  • Mahendraparvata unearthed in Cambodia

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    Airborne laser reveals city under Cambodian earth SYDNEY (AP) — Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat temples complex. The discovery was announced late Monday in a peer-reviewed paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.…

  • “Benefit Companies” Focused on Sustainability Now Legal In Oregon

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      By: Cassandra Profita Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a bill that allows companies to register as “benefit companies” in Oregon – businesses that offer environmental and social benefits in addition to making profits.The designation recognizes businesses that conserve natural resources and provide employees with better quality of life, much like the B Corp certification offered by the…

  • Rural Folk Poetry of Afghanistan

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    Poetry magazine is devoting its entire June issue to Journalist Eliza Griswold and London Filmaker Seamus Murphy’s project which portrays “Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems…” For 10 years, journalist Eliza Griswold reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker. But she was frustrated that…

  • Enlighten Me

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    From a section called The Legends Behind the Folklore of Wine in wine-searcher, this extract from “The Curious World of Wine” by Richard Vine (no kidding), emeritus professor of enology at Purdue University enlightens us on how vinous folklore still makes up some of our every day clichés… To Your Health! Surviving wisdom indicates that a toast…

  • “Road Not Taken” Means Different Things to Different People

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    Road Not Taken is poetry is motion, quite literally. Developed by Spry Fox, Road Not Taken is a puzzle game about life and loss, that features randomly generated levels and permadeath. Similar to games like Shiren the Wanderer, players move along a grid attempting to traverse forest after forest as the game’s story unfolds. Invoking the famous poem by Robert…

  • Whisky and Poetry Salon

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    It doesn’t get better than this! In November 2012, Kim Ohanneson & Karolyn Kiisel of Literary Libations, and Johnnie “theScot” Mundell, “ambassador” for Morrison-Bowmore Scotch, inaugurated the Whisky & Poetry Salon at the B Black Penthouse in DTLA (downtown Los Angeles). Our goal has been to trade guests “whisky for their words”, to create an intimate literary and poetic…