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Mind-reading software could record your dreams - tech - 12 December 2008 - New Scientist

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:18:19 -0800

From the page: "Pictures you are observing can now be recreated with software that uses nothing but scans of your brain. It is the first "mind reading" technology to create such images from scratch, rather than picking them out from a pool of possible images."

Priest Antonio Rungi wants beauty contest - for nuns - Times Online

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:41:18 -0700

Priest Antonio Rungi wants beauty contest - for nuns

From the page: "What he valued most in a woman was 'inner beauty'. Asked for his feminine ideal, he replied: 'Well, I would say Sophia Loren.'�"

Autostop Carpooling and Car Sharing for commuters in Europe, United States, Africa and Asia

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:44:02 -0700

Ride sharing is a great way to travel without spending much, while helping reduce CO2 pollution.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/15/europe/riepop.php

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:32:33 -0700

Western higher education traces its origins to a couple of private homes with back gardens quite close to each other in ancient Athens. Both schools accepted students free of charge and women, but one was far more radical than the other: it admitted slaves.

That was Epicurus's Garden, which taught an ascetic form of hedonism to impart personal happiness and fulfillment for its own sake. The other, Plato's Academy, much like modern formal systems of education, aimed to help students improve their careers within society - primarily as politicians.

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When Michel Onfray, France's best-selling philosopher and best-known atheist, decided five years ago to end a 20-year formal teaching career to open his own private university, he chose to re-establish the Epicurean way of teaching.

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http://www.dailyserving.com/photography/

Fri, 23 May 2008 06:00:37 -0700

"An international forum for the exposure of contemporary art"

ikea hacker: play it again, zach!

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:15:06 -0700

Hacking Ikea

My Happy Planet | Learn &Practice English, French, Spanish and More with Partners Around the World

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:06:46 -0700

"Make friends around the world and learn about different cultures."

Standing Athwart E-History - February 12, 2008 - The New York Sun

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:32:42 -0700

From the page: ""Against the Machine" is a necessary book; Mr. Siegel's willingness to perform the difficult (and unpopular) work of cultural criticism on so vast and disparate an entity as the Internet is admirable. To be sure, he is not always a genial guide. He is merciless in his criticism of journalists whom he feels are too sympathetic to Internet culture, and impatient with writers who would see the Internet for its opportunities rather than its dangers. But impatience can be a virtue. Mr. Siegel's animus toward the "electronic mob" and his excesses of tone are forgivable when viewed against the overheated techno-enthusiasm of contemporary culture. By reminding us of Spinoza's insight -- "All things excellent are both difficult and rare" -- Mr. Siegel challenges us to consider the great costs to our culture and our humanity when we embrace a technology that instead makes everything merely easy and common."

Hand-wringing About American Culture - Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? - New York Times

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:00:48 -0700

ARE AMERICANS HOSTILE TO KNOWLEDGE?

From the page: "Such, uh, lack of global awareness is the kind of thing that drives Susan Jacoby, author of 'The Age of American Unreason',� up a wall. Ms. Jacoby is one of a number of writers with new books that bemoan the state of American culture.

Joining the circle of curmudgeons this season is Eric G. Wilson, whose 'Against Happiness'� warns that the 'American obsession with happiness' could 'well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation.'"

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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:05:13 -0800

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