Truth & Suffering

Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs

2016-05-18T15:20:00.001-05:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

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Snuff

2016-05-18T14:04:00.001-05:00

https://crberryauthor.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/3-guys-1-hammer-and-1-lunatic-1-ice-pick-real-life-snuff-films/

http://horrornews.net/98855/film-review-snuff-a-documentary-about-killing-on-camera-2008/

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Gross Misunderstanding

2015-02-10T07:29:00.001-06:00

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2015/02/03/383501038/science-denialism-has-consequences

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Nationalism

2015-02-10T07:22:00.001-06:00

http://reason.com/archives/2015/02/08/nationalism-is-a-poison

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Are We Procedures in god's Program?

2015-02-05T19:35:00.005-06:00

http://www.inc.com/allison-fass/stephen-wolfram-immortality-humans-live-forever.html

Bored and Brilliant

2015-02-05T17:43:00.001-06:00

http://www.wnyc.org/series/bored-and-brilliant/

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"So joy, in some ways, is almost a harder feeling to tolerate than sadness..."

2015-02-03T20:48:00.000-06:00

"And also, I can't remember who said this to me - I think it was George Vaillant, a psychiatrist who is kind of a poet-philosopher, too - he pointed out that, like, it's kind of like using a number to describe a taste. You know, how do you do that? So I think that social science misses a lot of the joy.

And, you know, one of the remarkable things about joy is that it is sort of predicated on this idea of being very connected to somebody. I think Christopher Hitchens described, you know, having kids as, you know, your heart running around in somebody else's body. And that feeling is so powerful, it's almost scary, because there's almost, like, an implied sense of loss about it.

It's, like, you love somebody so much, that you are almost automatically afraid of losing them, like, that this connection is so deep, that you can't think of that connection without thinking of that connection being broken. So joy, in some ways, is almost a harder feeling to tolerate than sadness, in some ways, because it's so powerful and makes us so vulnerable. But it's why it is also so profoundly special and what makes parenting, to so many of us, so huge and incomparable."

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/30/382428335/are-we-having-fun-yet-new-book-explores-the-paradox-of-parenting

A Crescendo

2015-02-01T10:05:00.001-06:00

http://bbc.com/news/31047780

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Ideas Are Not People

2015-01-30T09:52:00.001-06:00

Criticizing an idea is not the same as criticizing the people who believe it. Heard the saying, "love the sinner, hate the sin"???

http://end-blasphemy-laws.org/

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Droppin Science

2015-01-30T09:45:00.001-06:00

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/study-reveals-wide-opinion-differences-scientists-general-public/

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End Policing for Profit

2015-01-26T10:18:00.001-06:00

http://endforfeiture.com/

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The Medium is the Message

2015-01-26T10:04:00.001-06:00

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/play-this-creepy-choose-your-own-adventure-twitter-game-after-midnight

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History Makes Footprints

2015-01-13T20:38:00.001-06:00

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/klansville/

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.i2p

2015-01-11T13:40:00.001-06:00

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/silk-road-reloaded-i2p

The Future is Now

2015-01-11T12:59:00.001-06:00

http://io9.com/the-most-futuristic-predictions-that-came-true-in-2014-1674887659

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Building the first open source digital life form

2015-01-11T12:53:00.001-06:00

http://www.openworm.org/

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Allahu Akbar

2015-01-07T18:35:00.001-06:00

http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/07/je-suis-charlie-no-youre-not-or-else-you

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"Skin Encapsulated Ego"

2015-01-03T20:27:00.001-06:00

http://youtu.be/66iq40acSGM

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Taxonomy of Illusion

2015-01-03T20:02:00.001-06:00

http://youtu.be/_s_j_9VS1m0

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Codex Seraphinianus

2015-01-03T19:52:00.001-06:00

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/codex_seraphinianus_a_new_edition_of_the_strangest_book_in_the_world

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" ...art in the public interest is allowed to be free.”

2015-01-03T19:46:00.001-06:00

http://fusion.net/story/35883/robots-are-starting-to-break-the-law-and-nobody-knows-what-to-do-about-it/

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Staden

2014-12-29T22:00:00.001-06:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania

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Occam's Razor

2014-12-07T19:43:00.001-06:00

"Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a problem-solving principle devised by William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), who was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian. The principle states that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Other, more complicated solutions may ultimately prove correct, but—in the absence of certainty—the fewer assumptions that are made, the better." ---Wikipedia

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DeepMind

2014-12-07T12:23:00.001-06:00

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532876/googles-intelligence-designer/

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Animal Troll

2014-12-05T10:43:00.001-06:00

http://www.vice.com/read/deadanimalsikilled-is-instagrams-most-blatant-troll-815?utm_source=vicefbus

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