09 July 2010
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.gravois.html Rather than produce one definitive map of the world, Google offers multiple interpretations of the earth’s geography. Sometimes, this takes the form of customized maps that cater to the beliefs of one nation or another. More often, though, Google is simply an agnostic cartographer—a peddler of “place browsers” that contain a multitude of views instead of univocal, authoritative, traditional maps. “We work to provide as much discoverable information as possible so that users can make their own judgments...
02 July 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8593780.stm Tuesday's milestone marks the beginning of work that could lead to the discovery of fundamental new physics.
There was cheering and applause in the LHC control room as the first collisions were confirmed.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/66894/sec_id/66894 defines a snob as ‘Someone who tends to patronize or avoid those regarded as social inferiors; someone who blatantly attempts to cultivate or imitate those admired as social superiors; someone who has an air of smug superiority in matters of knowledge or taste.’ The same dictionary defines ‘inverted snob’ as one ‘who sneers indiscriminately at people and things associated with wealth and high society.’ One possible derivation of the word snob is from the Latin sine nobilitate, without nobility.
There was cheering and applause in the LHC control room as the first collisions were confirmed.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/66894/sec_id/66894 defines a snob as ‘Someone who tends to patronize or avoid those regarded as social inferiors; someone who blatantly attempts to cultivate or imitate those admired as social superiors; someone who has an air of smug superiority in matters of knowledge or taste.’ The same dictionary defines ‘inverted snob’ as one ‘who sneers indiscriminately at people and things associated with wealth and high society.’ One possible derivation of the word snob is from the Latin sine nobilitate, without nobility.
01 July 2010
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/architecture-survey-201008 ‘Overall, the kind of language I’ve developed, which culminated in Bilbao, comes from a reaction to Postmodernism. I was desperate not to go there,” Gehry explains, in his refreshingly plainspoken style. “I was looking for a way to deal with the humanizing qualities of decoration without doing it. I got angry with it—all the historical stuff, the pastiche. I said to myself, If you have to go backward, why not go back 300 million years before man, to fish?
Frank Gehry: Weisman Art Center, U. of MN, Mpls, MN, 1993
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2320/variety “feeling is the deeper source of religion, and philosophic and theological formulas are secondary products, like translations of a text into another tongue.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James A belief was not a mental entity which somehow mysteriously corresponded to an external reality if the belief were true. Beliefs were ways of acting with reference to a precarious environment, and to say they were true was to say they guided us satisfactorily in this environment.
As his first act of freedom, he said, he chose to believe his will was free.
He proposed that the obvious answer, that we run because we are afraid, was wrong, and instead argued that we are afraid because we run... The mental aspect of emotion, the feeling, is a slave to its physiology, not vice versa: we do not tremble because we are afraid or cry because we feel sad; we are afraid because we tremble and are sad because we cry.
For James, the great men of history manipulate the thoughts of society. "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." He continues, "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
James states that, although it does appear that humans use associations to move from one event to the next, this cannot be done without this soul tying everything together... James therefore chose to combine the views of ... and... to create his own way of thinking that he believed to make the most sense.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Humans can comfortably keep track of three different mental states at a time, Ms. Zunshine said. For example, the proposition “Peter said that Paul believed that Mary liked chocolate” is not too hard to follow. Add a fourth level, though, and it’s suddenly more difficult... Whatever the root cause, Ms. Zunshine argues, people find the interaction of three minds compelling. “If I have some ideological agenda,” she said, “I would try to construct a narrative that involved a triangularization of minds, because that is something we find particularly satisfying.”
Frank Gehry: Weisman Art Center, U. of MN, Mpls, MN, 1993
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2320/variety “feeling is the deeper source of religion, and philosophic and theological formulas are secondary products, like translations of a text into another tongue.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James A belief was not a mental entity which somehow mysteriously corresponded to an external reality if the belief were true. Beliefs were ways of acting with reference to a precarious environment, and to say they were true was to say they guided us satisfactorily in this environment.
As his first act of freedom, he said, he chose to believe his will was free.
He proposed that the obvious answer, that we run because we are afraid, was wrong, and instead argued that we are afraid because we run... The mental aspect of emotion, the feeling, is a slave to its physiology, not vice versa: we do not tremble because we are afraid or cry because we feel sad; we are afraid because we tremble and are sad because we cry.
For James, the great men of history manipulate the thoughts of society. "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." He continues, "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
James states that, although it does appear that humans use associations to move from one event to the next, this cannot be done without this soul tying everything together... James therefore chose to combine the views of ... and... to create his own way of thinking that he believed to make the most sense.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Humans can comfortably keep track of three different mental states at a time, Ms. Zunshine said. For example, the proposition “Peter said that Paul believed that Mary liked chocolate” is not too hard to follow. Add a fourth level, though, and it’s suddenly more difficult... Whatever the root cause, Ms. Zunshine argues, people find the interaction of three minds compelling. “If I have some ideological agenda,” she said, “I would try to construct a narrative that involved a triangularization of minds, because that is something we find particularly satisfying.”
30 June 2010
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236?RS_show_page=3
He didn't care when his teenage son came home with blue hair and a mohawk. He speaks his mind with a candor rare for a high-ranking official. He asks for opinions, and seems genuinely interested in the response.
The ISAF command has even discussed ways to make not killing into something you can win an award for: There's talk of creating a new medal for "courageous restraint,"...
His commanders had repeatedly requested permission to tear down the house where ... was killed, noting that it was often used as a combat position by the Taliban. But due to McChrystal's new restrictions to avoid upsetting civilians, the request had been denied.
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Flaubert-s-simple-heart-5320
Un coeur simple. In it, he managed the difficult technical feat of making someone interesting who was good but ordinary and not particularly intelligent, and he also managed the far more difficult emotional and ethical feat of entering the world of someone with whose outlook he did not agree, and portraying it with sympathy, understanding, and admiration, recognizing in it the beauty that it possessed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/opinion/25brooks.html
Most people in government, I find, are there because they sincerely want to do good. But they’re also exhausted and frustrated much of the time... These people often spend 16 hours a day together, and they bond by moaning and about the idiots on the outside.
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=23542
There was a time when appeasement was an inoffensive, even a rather positive term. The French word “l’apaisement,” from which it probably derives (or the earlier medieval-French apeser), meant the satisfying of an appetite or thirst, the bringing of comfort, the cooling of tensions. Even today, Webster’s dictionary’s first definition of “appease” is “to bring peace, calm; to soothe,” with the later negative meaning being, well, much later in the entry.
He didn't care when his teenage son came home with blue hair and a mohawk. He speaks his mind with a candor rare for a high-ranking official. He asks for opinions, and seems genuinely interested in the response.
The ISAF command has even discussed ways to make not killing into something you can win an award for: There's talk of creating a new medal for "courageous restraint,"...
His commanders had repeatedly requested permission to tear down the house where ... was killed, noting that it was often used as a combat position by the Taliban. But due to McChrystal's new restrictions to avoid upsetting civilians, the request had been denied.
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Flaubert-s-simple-heart-5320
Un coeur simple. In it, he managed the difficult technical feat of making someone interesting who was good but ordinary and not particularly intelligent, and he also managed the far more difficult emotional and ethical feat of entering the world of someone with whose outlook he did not agree, and portraying it with sympathy, understanding, and admiration, recognizing in it the beauty that it possessed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/opinion/25brooks.html
Most people in government, I find, are there because they sincerely want to do good. But they’re also exhausted and frustrated much of the time... These people often spend 16 hours a day together, and they bond by moaning and about the idiots on the outside.
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=23542
There was a time when appeasement was an inoffensive, even a rather positive term. The French word “l’apaisement,” from which it probably derives (or the earlier medieval-French apeser), meant the satisfying of an appetite or thirst, the bringing of comfort, the cooling of tensions. Even today, Webster’s dictionary’s first definition of “appease” is “to bring peace, calm; to soothe,” with the later negative meaning being, well, much later in the entry.
29 June 2010
A seldom told story is the one of the sprawling pop scene in Ostersund, a rather isolated town in the north of Sweden. No, we kid you not. The city by the lake has spawned lots of great groups, it's just that no one has ever noticed. Originally playing in different punk, rock or indie-groups the six soon-to-be creators of the most beautiful northern pop music imaginable met each other in their mid-teens. It was on strangers balconies and in blistering snowstorms on their way to parties they really learned to know one another.
27 June 2010
http://incharacter.org/review/stoicism-is-just-so-yesterday/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704009804575309610811148630.htmlWhat's interesting is the way both "The Rational Optimist" and "Wrong" converge on the idea of openness as fundamental to progress. For Mr. Ridley, the market for ideas needs to be as open as possible in order to breed ingenuity from collaboration; for Mr. Freedman, this market needs to be doggedly open about its errors as a positive step toward reliability.
http://www.hallahus.se/stilhistoria/takpapp.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8682515?dopt=Abstract if you’re impulsive, bored easily or ever suspected you might have ADHD or BPD, you most likely have the DRD4 7R gene (or one that does roughly the same thing)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704009804575309610811148630.htmlWhat's interesting is the way both "The Rational Optimist" and "Wrong" converge on the idea of openness as fundamental to progress. For Mr. Ridley, the market for ideas needs to be as open as possible in order to breed ingenuity from collaboration; for Mr. Freedman, this market needs to be doggedly open about its errors as a positive step toward reliability.
http://www.hallahus.se/stilhistoria/takpapp.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8682515?dopt=Abstract if you’re impulsive, bored easily or ever suspected you might have ADHD or BPD, you most likely have the DRD4 7R gene (or one that does roughly the same thing)
26 June 2010
24 June 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_orientalis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_%C3%97_hispanica
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/trees-22.shtml
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankthans
Peder Severin Krøyer
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/31277456@N04/3693841386/
Populus petrowskiana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_orientalis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_%C3%97_hispanica
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/trees-22.shtml
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankthans
Peder Severin Krøyer
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/31277456@N04/3693841386/
Populus petrowskiana
15 June 2010
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/06/13/the_bright_side_of_wrong?mode=PF What’s called for is a new way of thinking about wrongness, one that recognizes that our fallibility is part and parcel of our brilliance. If we can achieve that, we will be better able to avoid our costliest mistakes, own up to those we make, and reduce the conflict in our lives by dealing more openly and generously with both other people’s errors and our own...
Psychologists and neuroscientists increasingly think that inductive reasoning undergirds virtually all of human cognition — the decisions you make every day, as well as how you learned almost everything you know about the world. To take just the most sweeping examples, you used inductive reasoning to learn language, organize the world into meaningful categories, and grasp the relationship between cause and effect in the physical, biological, and psychological realms.
But this intelligence comes at a cost: Our entire cognitive operating system is fundamentally, unavoidably fallible. The distinctive thing about inductive reasoning is that it generates conclusions that aren’t necessarily true. They are, instead, probabilistically true — which means they are possibly false. Because we reason inductively, we will sometimes get things wrong... And here we arrive at the paradox of error: If we want to prevent it, we must understand that it is an inevitable part of us, an intrinsic side effect of a fundamentally sound system. Put differently, understanding the origins of our mistakes is the only way we can learn to deal with them, as both a practical and emotional matter... Recognizing that error is an inevitable part of our lives frees us from despising ourselves — and forbids us from looking down on others — for getting things wrong. Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or evil intent, we can liberate ourselves from the impossible burden of trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition that we could be in error, without deeming ourselves idiotic or unworthy. We can respond to the mistakes (or putative mistakes) of those around us with empathy and generosity. We can demand that our business and political leaders acknowledge and redress their errors rather than ignoring or denying them. In short, a better relationship with wrongness can lead to better relationships in general — whether between family members, colleagues, neighbors, or nations.
Psychologists and neuroscientists increasingly think that inductive reasoning undergirds virtually all of human cognition — the decisions you make every day, as well as how you learned almost everything you know about the world. To take just the most sweeping examples, you used inductive reasoning to learn language, organize the world into meaningful categories, and grasp the relationship between cause and effect in the physical, biological, and psychological realms.
But this intelligence comes at a cost: Our entire cognitive operating system is fundamentally, unavoidably fallible. The distinctive thing about inductive reasoning is that it generates conclusions that aren’t necessarily true. They are, instead, probabilistically true — which means they are possibly false. Because we reason inductively, we will sometimes get things wrong... And here we arrive at the paradox of error: If we want to prevent it, we must understand that it is an inevitable part of us, an intrinsic side effect of a fundamentally sound system. Put differently, understanding the origins of our mistakes is the only way we can learn to deal with them, as both a practical and emotional matter... Recognizing that error is an inevitable part of our lives frees us from despising ourselves — and forbids us from looking down on others — for getting things wrong. Once we recognize that we do not err out of laziness, stupidity, or evil intent, we can liberate ourselves from the impossible burden of trying to be permanently right. We can take seriously the proposition that we could be in error, without deeming ourselves idiotic or unworthy. We can respond to the mistakes (or putative mistakes) of those around us with empathy and generosity. We can demand that our business and political leaders acknowledge and redress their errors rather than ignoring or denying them. In short, a better relationship with wrongness can lead to better relationships in general — whether between family members, colleagues, neighbors, or nations.
13 June 2010
05 June 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust Korstörne
http://www.nice.fr/Culture/Musees-et-expositions/Musee-d-Art-Naif
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works. Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia. Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought.
http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Zapffe.html Zapffe's main argument and world-view was, roughly, this: Like all living species, humans are endowed with a certain number of physiological and social needs; the need for food, rest, security and so on. These needs are quite easily satisfied. However, we humans have an additional need, lacking in all other species, for an overarching meaning of life. This need, according to Zapffe, can never be satisfied unless we deceive ourselves. We can thus either delude ourselves into belief in a false meaning of life, or we can remain honest and realise that life is meaningless... His great survey of tragedy in literature, politics and the arts indicated that all human endeavour was ultimately futile... his view on the human destiny was simply that we ought to stop procreation immediately.
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Evil-Norwegian-Literature/dp/1564785718 Despite the overuse of the word in movies, political speeches, and news reports, “evil” is generally seen as either flagrant rhetoric or else an outdated concept: a medieval holdover with no bearing on our complex everyday reality. In A Philosophy of Evil, however, acclaimed writer/philosopher Lars Svendsen argues that evil remains a concrete moral problem: that we’re all its victims, and all guilty of committing evil acts. “It’s normal to be evil,” he writes—the problem is, we’ve lost the vocabulary to talk about it. Taking up this problem—how do we speak about evil?—A Philosophy of Evil treats evil as an ordinary aspect of contemporary life, with implications that are moral, practical, and above all, political. Because, as Svendsen says, “Evil should neither be justified nor explained away—evil must be fought.”
http://www.nice.fr/Culture/Musees-et-expositions/Musee-d-Art-Naif
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works. Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia. Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought.
http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Zapffe.html Zapffe's main argument and world-view was, roughly, this: Like all living species, humans are endowed with a certain number of physiological and social needs; the need for food, rest, security and so on. These needs are quite easily satisfied. However, we humans have an additional need, lacking in all other species, for an overarching meaning of life. This need, according to Zapffe, can never be satisfied unless we deceive ourselves. We can thus either delude ourselves into belief in a false meaning of life, or we can remain honest and realise that life is meaningless... His great survey of tragedy in literature, politics and the arts indicated that all human endeavour was ultimately futile... his view on the human destiny was simply that we ought to stop procreation immediately.
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Evil-Norwegian-Literature/dp/1564785718 Despite the overuse of the word in movies, political speeches, and news reports, “evil” is generally seen as either flagrant rhetoric or else an outdated concept: a medieval holdover with no bearing on our complex everyday reality. In A Philosophy of Evil, however, acclaimed writer/philosopher Lars Svendsen argues that evil remains a concrete moral problem: that we’re all its victims, and all guilty of committing evil acts. “It’s normal to be evil,” he writes—the problem is, we’ve lost the vocabulary to talk about it. Taking up this problem—how do we speak about evil?—A Philosophy of Evil treats evil as an ordinary aspect of contemporary life, with implications that are moral, practical, and above all, political. Because, as Svendsen says, “Evil should neither be justified nor explained away—evil must be fought.”
03 June 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09babies-t.html?pagewanted=all When the target of the action was itself a good guy, babies preferred the puppet who was nice to it. This alone wasn’t very surprising, given that the other studies found an overall preference among babies for those who act nicely. What was more interesting was what happened when they watched the bad guy being rewarded or punished. Here they chose the punisher. Despite their overall preference for good actors over bad, then, babies are drawn to bad actors when those actors are punishing bad behavior.
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrogardisme
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrogardisme
02 June 2010
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,695301,00.html But that alone would not suffice to divide the roles so neatly into good and evil. Most climate researchers were somewhere between the two extremes. They often had difficulty drawing clear conclusions from their findings. After all, scientific facts are often ambiguous... Weingart notes that public debate is mostly "only superficially about enlightenment." Rather, it is more about "deciding on and resolving conflicts through general social agreement." That's why it helps to present unambiguous findings... Scientific philosopher Silvio Funtovicz foresaw this dilemma as early as 1990. He described climate research as a "postnormal science." On account of its high complexity, he said it was subject to great uncertainty while, at the same time, harboring huge risks.
http://chronicle.com/article/Soul-Talk/65278/
http://chronicle.com/article/Soul-Talk/65278/
01 June 2010
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Pleasures-of-Imagination/65678 Our main leisure activity is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination—to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, video games, and television..., or to worlds we ourselves create, as when daydreaming and fantasizing.
23 May 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Collins
Jerry Thomas' Tom Collins Gin (1876)
(Use large bar-glass.)
Take 5 or 6 dashes of gum syrup.
Juice of a small lemon.
1 large wine-glass of gin.
2 or 3 lumps of ice;
Shake up well and strain into a large bar-glass. Fill up the glass with plain soda water and drink while it is lively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_syrup#Gomme_syrup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_syrup The sap is reduced in the same way as maple sap, using reverse osmosis machines and evaporators in commercial production. While maple sap may be boiled down without the use of reverse osmosis, birch syrup is difficult to produce this way: the sap is more temperature sensitive than is maple sap because fructose burns at a lower temperature than sucrose, the primary sugar in maple sap. This means that boiling birch sap to produce syrup can much more easily result in a scorched taste.
Jerry Thomas' Tom Collins Gin (1876)
(Use large bar-glass.)
Take 5 or 6 dashes of gum syrup.
Juice of a small lemon.
1 large wine-glass of gin.
2 or 3 lumps of ice;
Shake up well and strain into a large bar-glass. Fill up the glass with plain soda water and drink while it is lively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_syrup#Gomme_syrup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_syrup The sap is reduced in the same way as maple sap, using reverse osmosis machines and evaporators in commercial production. While maple sap may be boiled down without the use of reverse osmosis, birch syrup is difficult to produce this way: the sap is more temperature sensitive than is maple sap because fructose burns at a lower temperature than sucrose, the primary sugar in maple sap. This means that boiling birch sap to produce syrup can much more easily result in a scorched taste.
20 May 2010
http://www.boehmfilm.de/global_html_engl/habundgut.html Säg mig vad du äger...
http://martin.ingvar.com/
http://martin.ingvar.com/
19 May 2010
17 May 2010
Jag vill se ut som Gregory Peck http://svt.se/2.58360/1.319529/utskriftsvanligt_format?printerfriendly=true
Not Another Ski Movie
by Push Films (Norway) 2004 (16mm film)
10 May 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Democracy was also seen to a certain extent in bands and tribes such as the Iroquois Confederacy... An interesting detail is that there should be consensus among the leaders, not majority support decided by voting, when making decisions.
Band societies, such as the Bushmen, which usually number 20-50 people in the band often do not have leaders and make decisions based on consensus among the majority. In Melanesia, farming village communities have traditionally been egalitarian and lacking in a rigid, authoritarian hierarchy. Although a "Big man" or "Big woman" could gain influence, that influence was conditional on a continued demonstration of leadership skills, and on the willingness of the community.
Currently, there are 123 countries that are democratic (up from 40 in 1972). As such, it has been speculated that this trend may continue in the future to the point where liberal democratic nation-states become the universal standard form of human society... These theories are criticized by those who fear an evolution of liberal democracies to post-democracy, and other who points out the high number of illiberal democracies.
Anarchists are split...depending on whether they believe that a majority-rule is tyrannic or not. The only form of democracy considered acceptable to many anarchists is direct democracy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon argued that the only acceptable form of direct democracy is one in which it is recognized that majority decisions are not binding on the minority, even when unanimous.
Henry David Thoreau, who did not self-identify as an anarchist but argued for "a better government" and is cited as an inspiration by some anarchists, argued that people should not be in the position of ruling others or being ruled when there is no consent.
Consensus democracy requires varying degrees of consensus rather than just a mere democratic majority. It typically attempts to protect minority rights from domination by majority rule.
Democracy was also seen to a certain extent in bands and tribes such as the Iroquois Confederacy... An interesting detail is that there should be consensus among the leaders, not majority support decided by voting, when making decisions.
Band societies, such as the Bushmen, which usually number 20-50 people in the band often do not have leaders and make decisions based on consensus among the majority. In Melanesia, farming village communities have traditionally been egalitarian and lacking in a rigid, authoritarian hierarchy. Although a "Big man" or "Big woman" could gain influence, that influence was conditional on a continued demonstration of leadership skills, and on the willingness of the community.
Currently, there are 123 countries that are democratic (up from 40 in 1972). As such, it has been speculated that this trend may continue in the future to the point where liberal democratic nation-states become the universal standard form of human society... These theories are criticized by those who fear an evolution of liberal democracies to post-democracy, and other who points out the high number of illiberal democracies.
Anarchists are split...depending on whether they believe that a majority-rule is tyrannic or not. The only form of democracy considered acceptable to many anarchists is direct democracy. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon argued that the only acceptable form of direct democracy is one in which it is recognized that majority decisions are not binding on the minority, even when unanimous.
Henry David Thoreau, who did not self-identify as an anarchist but argued for "a better government" and is cited as an inspiration by some anarchists, argued that people should not be in the position of ruling others or being ruled when there is no consent.
Consensus democracy requires varying degrees of consensus rather than just a mere democratic majority. It typically attempts to protect minority rights from domination by majority rule.
15 April 2010
13 April 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_philosophy
http://www.fil.lu.se/cms/section.asp?sid=1163&lang=eng
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/apr/13/werner-herzog-cave-art-documentary-3d
"What is also strange," Herzog reveals, "is that somebody [in the cave] started a painting and then they left. And it's known that 3,500 years later somebody continued the painting..."
http://www.fil.lu.se/cms/section.asp?sid=1163&lang=eng
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/apr/13/werner-herzog-cave-art-documentary-3d
"What is also strange," Herzog reveals, "is that somebody [in the cave] started a painting and then they left. And it's known that 3,500 years later somebody continued the painting..."
10 April 2010
07 April 2010
06 April 2010
05 April 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White
The handwriting of her will, written shortly before her death, shows evidence of tremor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/jm-ledgard/exodus
The handwriting of her will, written shortly before her death, shows evidence of tremor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/jm-ledgard/exodus
04 April 2010
30 March 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8593780.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7567926.stm
The Alice detector will investigate the moments after the Big Bang.
The Standard Model comprises 16 particles – 12 matter particles and four force-carrier particles. The Standard Model has worked remarkably well so far. But it cannot explain the best known of the so-called four fundamental forces: gravity; and it describes only ordinary matter, which makes up but a small part of the total Universe. There is an essential ingredient missing from the Standard Model. Without it, none of the 16 particles in the scheme would have any mass.
All the matter that we can see in the Universe – planets, stars and galaxies – makes up a minuscule 4% of what is actually out there. The rest is dark energy (which accounts for 73% of the cosmos) and dark matter (23%).
According to one idea, dark matter could be made up of "supersymmetric particles" - massive particles that are partners to those already known in the Standard Model. Each basic particle of "ordinary" matter has its own anti-particle. Matter and antimatter have the same mass, but opposite electric charge.
When a particle of ordinary matter meets its anti-particle, the two disappear in a flash, as their mass is transformed into energy.
They are said to "annihilate" one another. But equal amounts of matter and anti-matter must have been produced in the Big Bang. So why did matter and anti-matter not completely annihilate each another after the birth of the Universe? Today, we live in a Universe almost entirely composed of ordinary matter. Scientists will use the LHC to investigate why this is, and what happened to all the anti-matter.
Attempts to unify gravity with the other fundamental forces have come to a startling prediction: that every known particle has a massive "shadow" partner particle. All particles are classified as either fermions or bosons. A particle in one class has superpartner in the other class, "balancing the books" and doubling the number of particles in the Standard Model.
24 March 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/19/raj-patel-colbert-report-benjamin-creme/print
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/23/pope-benedict-catholic-paedophile-crisis/print
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/23/grigory-perelman-rejects-1m-dollars/print
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
http://www.unccd.ch/grigori-perelman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/23/pope-benedict-catholic-paedophile-crisis/print
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/23/grigory-perelman-rejects-1m-dollars/print
http://www.unccd.ch/grigori-perelman
20 March 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8576891.stm
People can use the data to create mashups and web applications to reveal new patterns and carry out analysis.
He envisaged that the tool would allow anyone to explore data and see whether it was relevant to them at a local, national or global scale.
People can use the data to create mashups and web applications to reveal new patterns and carry out analysis.
He envisaged that the tool would allow anyone to explore data and see whether it was relevant to them at a local, national or global scale.
14 March 2010
13 March 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene
Magdalene fresco from The Magdalene Chapel of the Lower Church in the Basilica of St Francis, Assisi.
By Giotto and assistants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_model
http://www.wikihow.com/Choose-a-Role-Model
vara en förebild för någon---be a person for someone to model themselves on
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Good-Role-Model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelling_%28psychology%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan
http://www.artsycraftsy.com/dore_prints.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_model
http://www.wikihow.com/Choose-a-Role-Model
vara en förebild för någon---be a person for someone to model themselves on
http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Good-Role-Model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelling_%28psychology%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan
http://www.artsycraftsy.com/dore_prints.html
12 March 2010
11 March 2010
Mary (?) in Lugano
http://www.wga.hu/html/z/zucchi/jacopo/miracle.html
http://communio.stblogs.org/2008/08/letting-gods-glory-through-the.html
http://faculty.hacc.edu/jjohnson/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/local/armagh/Drumconwell/
It has a flat face, a broken top and simple carved crosses inside a circle, the Ogham marks are down either edge.
The inscriptions are damaged and worn. There have been inconclusive studies by Dr. Reeves - 1883, Rhys - 1895, Hamlin - 1987 and Warner - 1990. Warner’s interpretation is CUN AM AGLOS the old Irish Conmael. The name of the townland Drumconwell being from the Irish Druim Conmhail the ridge of Conmael. There was a King Conmael, King of the Airthir (the people living in Armagh in 7th Century). Could this Drumconwell stone be his grave marker?
10 March 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
In an interview with Kurt Sauer, Chief Security Officer Skype, he said, "We provide a safe communication option. I will not tell you whether we can listen or not." Skype's client uses an undocumented and proprietary protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners
In an interview with Kurt Sauer, Chief Security Officer Skype, he said, "We provide a safe communication option. I will not tell you whether we can listen or not." Skype's client uses an undocumented and proprietary protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners
09 March 2010
07 March 2010
>Do you want to try something really random and fun?? Do a google search of the year you were born and find out what was happening them.
http://www.madonnadicanneto.it/history.html...the statue of the Madonna of Canneto: it is a wood carving made in the 6th century
...on September 19, 1954, the much venerated statue was solemnly crowned at Sora by Cardinal Aloisi Masella, at the
end of the 1st Interdiocesan Marian Congress
http://www.madonnadicanneto.it/history.html...the statue of the Madonna of Canneto: it is a wood carving made in the 6th century
end of the 1st Interdiocesan Marian Congress
06 March 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
Religion is derived from the Latin religiō, the ultimate origins of which are obscure. One possibility is derivation from a reduplicated *le-ligare, an interpretation traced to Cicero connecting lego "read", i.e. re (again) + lego in the sense of "choose", "go over again" or "consider carefully". Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from ligare "bind, connect", probably from a prefixed re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or "to reconnect," which was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius. However, the French scholar Daniel Dubuisson notes that relying on this etymology "tends to minimize or cancel out the role of history"; he notes that Augustine gave a lengthy definition of religio that sets it quite apart from the modern word "religion".
... What is called ancient religion today, they would have only called "law".
Religion is derived from the Latin religiō, the ultimate origins of which are obscure. One possibility is derivation from a reduplicated *le-ligare, an interpretation traced to Cicero connecting lego "read", i.e. re (again) + lego in the sense of "choose", "go over again" or "consider carefully". Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from ligare "bind, connect", probably from a prefixed re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or "to reconnect," which was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius. However, the French scholar Daniel Dubuisson notes that relying on this etymology "tends to minimize or cancel out the role of history"; he notes that Augustine gave a lengthy definition of religio that sets it quite apart from the modern word "religion".
... What is called ancient religion today, they would have only called "law".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8550924.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8551528.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
"They have a common ancestor who geneticists say lived about 3,000 years ago somewhere in north Arabia, which is the time of Moses and Aaron when the Jewish priesthood started."
The Lemba have a sacred prayer language which is a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic, pointing to their roots in Israel and Yemen.
Despite their ties to Judaism, many of the Lemba in Zimbabwe are Christians, while some are Muslims.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/27/as-byatt-alice-in-wonderland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8551528.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
"They have a common ancestor who geneticists say lived about 3,000 years ago somewhere in north Arabia, which is the time of Moses and Aaron when the Jewish priesthood started."
The Lemba have a sacred prayer language which is a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic, pointing to their roots in Israel and Yemen.
Despite their ties to Judaism, many of the Lemba in Zimbabwe are Christians, while some are Muslims.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/27/as-byatt-alice-in-wonderland
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