May 2013
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“We, as human beings, are landed with memory systems that have fallibilities,...”
– Neurologist Oliver Sacks on memory and its necessary fallibility (via explore-blog)
April 2013
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I’m Tired →
March 2013
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Digg Blog: We're Building A Reader →
…life & blogging go on, so this is good news for news & information junkies, bloggers on every platform. I’m surveying and checking out prospective migration locations. This one looks promising.
rethinkdigg:
Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st. Through its many...
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Data brokers are gathering your personal info this... →
Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you’re pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight, about how rich you are and what kinds of cars you have.
Regulators and some in Congress have been taking a closer look at these so-called data brokers — and are beginning to push the companies to give...
February 2013
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January 2013
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December 2012
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Libraries are Forever: E-books and Print Books Can...
See on Scoop.it - The Independent, Autonomous Learner Reading rules, books in any and all formats, but cuneiform tablets would be heavy for toting around If you can remember the day you first learned to read, you probably recall that profound sense of accomplishment that came from sounding out the words in your favorite storybooks. But whether you’re 15 or 50, you know that books as we know...
September 2012
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August 2012
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First Peña Blanca Sunflower Project festival...
See on Scoop.it - Sunflowers In late summer in Northern New Mexico, along roadsides and in backyards and through cracks in the sidewalk, bright yellow sunflowers bloom. The tiny ones (two or three inches in diameter) are native to the region and thrive here, even in dry years. The sunflowers in Peña Blanca — halfway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque in Sandoval County — are different. They’re...
First Peña Blanca Sunflower Project festival...
See on Scoop.it - Sunflowers In late summer in Northern New Mexico, along roadsides and in backyards and through cracks in the sidewalk, bright yellow sunflowers bloom. The tiny ones (two or three inches in diameter) are native to the region and thrive here, even in dry years. The sunflowers in Peña Blanca — halfway between Santa Fe and Albuquerque in Sandoval County — are different. They’re...
July 2012
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June 2012
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The Global Debt Bomb
See on Scoop.it - to market to market Spending our way out of worldwide recession will take years to pay back—and create a lot of pain. Not about informal economy and local markets but sure makes them look smart by comparison… and this article is from 2010. No one can say (with a straight face) that they did not see it coming. “If 2008 was the year of the subprime meltdown,...
May 2012
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Que peuvent les classes moyennes ? →
from Le Monde diplomatique
Courtisées par les pouvoirs à Paris comme à Pékin, Moscou ou Washington, les couches moyennes trônent au centre de toutes les stratégies politiques. En période de crise, elles oscillent entre solidarité avec les classes populaires et alliance avec la haute bourgeoisie.
Better plants for biofuels →
An article in F1000 Biology Reports published today argues that recent advances in knowledge mean that plant-derived biofuels could meet about 30 percent of the global demand for liquid transportation fuels, drastically reducing the amounts of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, without having an impact on food production.
April 2012
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BBC News - Shakespeare's 'co-author' named by... →
Professor Laurie Maguire says the latest literary research shows groups of writers working together on plays.
“The picture that’s emerging is of much more collaboration,” said Prof Maguire.
“We need to think of it more as a film studio with teams of writers.”
Esquire's War on Everyone Over 65 →
from CEPR Feed
We don’t make this stuff up. Esquire’s recent article on “The War Against Youth” is shocking, but not for the reason you’d expect after reading that headline…. According to the article, Social Security is a “boondoggle” that is “weighted heavily in favor of the older population.
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Dean Baker sums up the article...
March 2012
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Mountainair Arts: Sunflower: time for hats & more
Via Scoop.it - Sunflowers ‘Tis the season for collecting sunflower oddities… I’ve done sunflower art car, Van Gogh inspired sunflower Barbie, sunflower martini, sunflower geodesic, etc. Uncle Walter’s Sunflower Babies is a perennial favorite. This year it’s the sunflower hat cake, courtesy of The House of Cakes, Mountainair Arts, Saturday August 15 2009...
Sunflower sprouts could be the new anti-aging...
Via Scoop.it - Sunflowers Sunflower sprouts could be a sexy new sunscreen active. They may protect from the sun, be a powerful anti-aging ingredient and neutralize the oxidative damage that is done by conventional sunscreens. Via truthinaging.com
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Sunflowers: Other Artist, from the Vincent van...
Via Scoop.it - Sunflowers Not only did Vincent van Gogh inspire others to paint sunflowers, but he also created a trend that would span various lifestyles and personas. Via vangoghgallery.com
Willard Cantina & Cafe – Willard, New Mexico
Via Scoop.it - Mountainair 87036 from Gil Garduno’s Gil’s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog … a burger which should perhaps have been considered for inclusion on the Trail…. served in a small hamlet just twelve miles northeast of the geographical center of New Mexico. Willard is home to 240 people in under one square mile of land though “locals” might actually live on small...
Sun flowers, a story #change11
Via Scoop.it - Sunflowers ’Esse est percipi’ (Berkeley, Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1790, : § 3) ’to be is to be perceived’. We do make sense of the world that we perc… (connect to) MOOC (Change11 and others) colleague Jaap Bosman elaborates further: “Van Gogh painted sun flowers. He changed our connections with sun flowers. After van Gogh sun...
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February 2012
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Rio de Janeiro and Brazil News
Via Scoop.it - flânerie Missed Carnaval in Rio again this year? Visit ~ flâner ~ vicariously. Tourism, finance, culture, art, business, aviation and leisure, just to name a few. Via paper.li
"Calling all progressive artists!": People's Art...
Via Scoop.it - flânerie Facebook invitation to progressive artists, cultural workers and media practitioners: meet and share ideas, projects with other progressive artists and writers. The artist’s place is in the struggle and that without a “cultural revolution” in the field of ideology and ideas, there will be no truly successful social and political revolution. Web site:...
A small secret Supper Club in Padova | Home...
Via Scoop.it - to market to market A small secret Supper Club near Venice, Padova. Dine with Mama Isa’s family. Underground Dinner in Padova. Another idea for the local informal economy. Anyone remember the #Mountainair Supper Club? Via isacookinpadua.altervista.org
Bottom Line » Experience Seattle’s Year-round...
Via Scoop.it - to market to market Bottom Line - News from Seattle’s Office of Economic Development (Experience Seattle’s Year-round Farmers Markets http://t.co/FqF0d93R…)… A year round market… fancy that. Let’s think how #Mountainair could manage to have one. For starters, we’d need a broader base of local involvement, including more organizations than the arts...
Board Games, Capitalism, and Piracy →
It’s fairly widely known that the game Monopoly was developed in America in the late nineteenth century to illustrate the evils of land monopoly. Rising prices, especially in the cities, in the 1870s and 1880s brought fortunes to alucky few and misery to many.
Flickr: artimageslibrary's Photostream →
and so much more from Art Knowledge News
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Fast Company's 10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week →
Catch up on the (mostly tech) stories readers deemed most clickworthy this week from Fast Company, Co.Design, Co.Create, and Co.Exist.
Why Informal Entrepreneurs Matter to the Economy
Via Scoop.it - to market to market Not many people think of shantytowns, illegal street vendors, and unlicensed roadside hawkers as major economic players. But according to jo… In his new book, Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, Neuwirth points out that small, illegal, off-the-books businesses collectively account for trillions of dollars in commerce and employ...
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Entrepreneur helps connect farmers, consumers...
Via Scoop.it - to market to market STAUNTON — Staunton Fresh, an online farmers’ market that promises to connect local foods with local people, may sound pie in the sky, but after more than a year of planning by local entrepeneur Michael Reeps the concept looks close to delivering,… Via newsleader.com
Organizing Your Digital Self - Mind Map →
Organize my digital self. Yes indeed, I could use a serving or so of that. Nifty flash from Mindomo.
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SwiftRiver Aggregates and Verifies Crowdsourced... →
from Daily Crowdsource, #1 Site for Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding & Open Innovation News
As anyone who uses social media networks (like Twitter and Facebook) knows, sometimes the data can be overwhelming. It streams in with thousands of updates a day, inundating the user with information. The importance of ensuring the information is accurate is of utmost importance when it applies to rescue...
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Why economic inequality leads to collapse →
But we already knew this. Still, the following is a reminder we cannot have too many of:
It is this concentration of income – at levels not seen since the 1920s – that is the real cause of the present crisis.
So maybe it’s time to drop the consumption model?
The effect of this consolidation of economic power is that the two most effective routes out of the crisis have been closed....
Bua Tong Sunflower Festival - northern Thailand |...
Via Scoop.it - Sunflowers every November the mountains around Khun Yuam burst into yellow as the sunflowers hit their peak. The sunflowers that grace entire hillsides around here don’t grow naturally in Thailand. They were brought here from Central America nearly a century ago by missionaries, and their legacy remains. Via worldfestivalsguide.com
January 2012
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Darren Learning in Public: Who's crunching the... →
dcambrid:
Of the LAK12 Week 1 readings, I was most intrigued by “Untangling the Social Web.” Beyond the staggering statement that “in the past five years IBM had spent more than $11 billion dollars buying makers of network-analysis software,” surely a sign this whole learning analytics business is likely…
@MountainairNM - Center of the world
Via Scoop.it - Mountainair 87036 Proof that Mountainair, NM is the center of the world: http://t.co/jg4yjYAG… Via centermytown.com
NM forest officials host meeting on drying trees
Via Scoop.it - Mountainair 87036 NM forest officials host meeting on drying treesAlamogordo Daily NewsAP RUIDOSO, NM—Local, state and federal officials are planning a community meeting in Ruidoso to address concerns about a recent bark beetle outbreak in the Sacramento Mountains. an effect of climate change in the Southwest, photo by LIFE Via alamogordonews.com
Alger 1972, capitale des révolutionnaires en exil,...
Via Scoop.it - flânerie Dans les années 1970, « le fond de l’air est rouge » et les révolutionnaires se battent les armes à la main, de l’Amérique latine à l’Asie. Via monde-diplomatique.fr
Nietzsche on Eggshells by Fred Siegel - City...
Via Scoop.it - flânerie A new book on the philosopher’s American reception soft-pedals his dark influence. Via city-journal.org
