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Walt Handelsman's cartoons are
sort of funny. I like
this one.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 6:06 PM on April 17, 2007
(22 comments)
Ubuntu is organizing a '
National Day of Truthtelling' in Durham, NC, on April 28, 2007. They argue that poor judgment does not justify rape, and are gathering women to
tell their stories. Their motto: "
It is better to speak."
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 2:30 PM on April 15, 2007
(112 comments)
The
Bloody Island Massacre: "[W]e hope that the government will render such aid as will enable the citizens of the north to carry on a war of extermination until the last redskin of these tribes has been killed. Extermination is no longer a question of time - the time has arrived, the work has commenced, and let the first man that says treaty or peace be regarded as a traitor." (
Wiki)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 10:12 AM on April 4, 2007
(66 comments)
"
People who don't look like us see us for the first time as we should be seen, as equals."
When
Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) wanted to leave Star Trek after the first season, she got a little nudge from a big fan.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 7:22 AM on March 30, 2007
(47 comments)
With the help of
Ossur's prosthetic feet,
Oscar Pistorius is
differently abled.
Video.
Walk Tall should be the next
LiveStrong. (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 12:17 PM on March 4, 2007
(8 comments)
New York bans the
most offensive word in the
English language. (Previously
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 7:18 AM on March 2, 2007
(90 comments)
Deliberative Polling®, developed by Professor James S. Fishkin, is a
technique which combines
deliberation in
small group discussions with
scientific random sampling to provide
public consultation for
public policy and for
electoral issues. Since deliberation is
good for
civic health, this model has also been
floated as
a fourth branch of government: Deliberation Day. This proposal has
met with some criticism. (Many links are pdf.)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 2:57 PM on January 22, 2007
(13 comments)
Read Goats.
Now in
Color! (
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9) See also:
Republicans for
Voldemort.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 7:11 PM on December 13, 2006
(12 comments)
Not just for longevists anymore. In addition to prolonging lifespan by 30 percent, resveratrol apparently doubles endurance, giving you the reduced heart rate and energy-charged muscles of a trained athlete... if you're a rat. It's contained in red wine, and
the health-food industry is claiming that resveratrol is the wine component responsible for the "
French Paradox." If so, it'll be because of sirtuins, "
the anti-aging enzymes." Are
all these doctors quacks? (
previously)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 3:25 PM on November 16, 2006
(33 comments)
John Humphrys is a
militant grammarian: "We all care about language. Your concern may be different from the young hoodie's." On the other hand, he may have a
point: "The simple fact is we cannot afford to be careless with our language, because if we are careless with our language then we are careless with our world and sooner or later we will be lost for words to describe what we have allowed to happen to it." (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 12:13 PM on November 8, 2006
(39 comments)
George Lakoff responds to
Steven Pinker’s review of
Whose Freedom?. Highlights include charges of deception and incompetence on both sides.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 8:09 PM on October 27, 2006
(27 comments)
Project Witness provides training and video cameras for local groups to use in their human rights advocacy campaigns. They have recently begun
releasing these videos online. Check out US films like
Outlawed,
Rights on the Line, or
The Day After Diallo, or focus your attention on the international scene:
Between Two Fires dwells on Northern Uganda's civil war crimes, torture, and refugee camps,
Season of Fear deals with Burma's internally displaced, and
Witness to Truth addresses Sierra Leone's attempt to replicate the South African Truth and Reconciliation model. Best of all, this simple strategy
actually works.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 6:51 PM on October 17, 2006
(3 comments)
Why should we get excited about such a lacklustre topic as
the future of Europe?
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 7:13 AM on September 20, 2006
(27 comments)
In less than a month the cabaret, which at first had welcomed all modern tendencies in the arts and hoped to entertain and educate the customer, had turned into a theater of the absurd. That was the intention. "What we are celebrating," Ball wrote in his diary, "is both buffoonery and a requiem mass."The scandal spread. Lenin, who played chess with Tzara, wanted to know
what Dada was all about. (Previously
1,
2,
3)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 1:05 PM on August 29, 2006
(10 comments)
People don't write manifestos like they used to... Whatever happened to the
Surrealist Manifesto? How about the the
Italian Futurist Manifesto (and its
many spinoffs)? There's also
First and Second OuLiPo Manifestos,
Humanist (
I, II, &
III) as well as
Post-Humanist Manifestos, not to mention Donna Haraway's
Cyborg Manifesto: "...an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism...."
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 1:10 PM on August 21, 2006
(43 comments)
Confused by "
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers"? Here's a
timeline. Perhaps you need a different
perspective? How about a
real-life analogy?
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 3:24 PM on August 18, 2006
(4 comments)
The neurophysiology of political reasoning: "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones." But where do we get
our initial biases? (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 8:00 AM on July 16, 2006
(21 comments)
The Diamond Age has arrived, but no one will admit it. Experts chafe at the mass-production of diamonds. The leading gem analysts
refuse to rate them. Duh.
"If we could
succeed, at a small expenditure of labour,
in converting carbon into diamonds, their value might
fall below that of bricks."
Capital, Karl Marx (
previously)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 12:57 PM on July 10, 2006
(96 comments)
Samuel R. Delany has become known for his
Silent Interviews, where he responds to questions in writing. But many other interviews are available online:
The Onion AV Club;
Nerve;
Science Fiction Studies;
SF Site;
K. Leslie Steiner [Delany's pseudonym];
Science Fiction Weekly. Some are not-so-silent:
Blackbird;
Smithsonian. He also writes fiction. [More Inside]
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 9:29 AM on June 15, 2006
(24 comments)
Hannah Arendt's Papers are digitally preserved by the Library of Congress. Read her lectures on
Political Philosophy. Browse her
correspondence.
Here she castigates once-friend, Gershom Scholem, for his poor treatment of
Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Here she explains forgiveness to the
hapless poet she called 'Wystan:' W. H. Auden.
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 10:32 AM on June 1, 2006
(17 comments)
Have your war and heat it too? As the war approaches the $350 billion mark, Cass Sunstein notes: "For the United States,
the economic burden of the Iraq war is on the verge of exceeding the total anticipated burden of
the Kyoto Protocol." Costs may rise as high as
$10 trillion. At least we know it wasn't about oil: in a good year, Iraq makes about
$14 billion on fossil fuels. (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by anotherpanacea
at 9:06 PM on May 10, 2006
(28 comments)
