Category Archives: Other peoples words

Tom Waits and Bukowski/ Nirvana

Waits’ voice and Bukowski’s words make poetry to the second power.

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Video: The Power of Empathy — a quick animated clip that can make you a better person

Originally posted on Vox Populi:
This animated clip features Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, providing some quick insights into the difference between sympathy and empathy, and explaining why empathy…

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The Righteous and the Sinners

Originally posted on Great Middle Way:
“We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism. This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other…

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Present-Tense Anthropology™

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w2BfJKRpJR8/UpermRNc92I/AAAAAAAABJw/KirXDcGGG4s/s1600/ARMCHAIR+IMGP0185+crop.jpg “It isn’t revolutionaries and terrorist who make the nuclear power plants melt of blow their tops, or the electricity grids crash, or the automated trading systems go all higgeldy-piggeldy and write their billions down…

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Irrigation Canal Codex by Luis Alberto Urrea

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
Y los muchachos cling to the cantina’s jukebox heart, sing: we never go nowhere we never see nothing but work: these fingers bleed every daylong day, aching from la joda of the harvest– y la…

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