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  • This Sunday – the Supermoon

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    The full moon that will rise Sunday will be the largest of the year, a “supermoon” caused by the slightly asymmetrical orbit of the moon around Earth. Sunday’s supermoon will reach its peak fullness at 7:32 a.m. EDT. The moon’s closest approach of 2013 will be about 221,300 miles (357,000 km) from Earth, about 20 minutes…

  • Monopolies Make Spying Easier

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    TIM WU explains why monoplies make spying easier in The New Yorker magazine: These days, America has one dominant search engine, one dominant social-networking site, and four phone companies. The structure of the information industry often goes unnoticed, but it has an enormous effect on the ease with which the government spies on citizens. The remarkable…

  • It Never Stays “Over There”

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    Ryan Gallagher summarizes the latest revelations from Snowden and Greenwald: The documents confirm beyond all doubt that the NSA can and does incidentally sweep up domestic communications while targeting foreigners, and it has the authority to retain such communications for up to five years. The NSA has to destroy communications concerning “U.S. persons,” except for cases in which the communication…

  • When Good Causes Go Bad

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    Originally posted on The Dish: http://youtu.be/kV8GOuxesJw PZ Myers is disappointed by the results of the Tampa Bay Times‘ recent investigation into how charities are spending the money they collect: The worst are the cancer charities, and the article singles out the Reynolds family and their nepotistic mill for turning dying people into salaries. Cancer is so easy for these…

  • The Scam of Growth

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    Vandana Shiva | 19th Jun 2013 Bhutan: I am working with the government of Bhutan to help the country become the world’s first wholly organic country. I am also working to redefine the economic paradigm to focus on the happiness (gross national happiness) and well being of its people and the health of its environment, instead of…

  • Leading literary figure claims answer to happiness lies in poetry.

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    18 June 2013 From self-help books to therapy, the business of helping people in need is today a multi-million pound industry. But a leading literary figure claims answer to happiness lies in the literary – in the form of poetry. William Sieghart, founder of National Poetry Day and the Forward Prizes For Poetry, is using…

  • 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…

  • Charleston

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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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