Month: July 2017

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Sir Thomas Browne on the Divine Heartbreak of Romantic Friendship

Fernando Kaskais

Sir Thomas Browne by Jane Carlile “United souls are not satisfied with embraces, but desire to be truly each other.” BY MARIA POPOVA Navigating the various types of platonic relationshipscan be challenging enough. But few things are more existentially disorienting than trying to moor oneself within a relationship that floats back and forth across the porous boundary between the platonic and the erotic — one rooted in a deep friendship but magnetized with undeniable romantic intensity, like the relationships between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann in the nineteenth century and Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman in the twentieth. But as beautiful and vitalizing as such … Continue reading Sir Thomas Browne on the Divine Heartbreak of Romantic Friendship

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The sea was never blue

Fernando Kaskais

The Aegean Sea. Photo by Krista Rossow/National Geographic The Greek colour experience was made of movement and shimmer. Can we ever glimpse what they saw when gazing out to sea? Maria Michela Sassi is a professor of history and ancient philosophy at the University of Pisa in Italy. Homer used two adjectives to describe aspects of the colour blue: kuaneos, to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black; and glaukos, to describe a sort of ‘blue-grey’, notably used in Athena’s epithet glaukopis, her ‘grey-gleaming eyes’. He describes the sky as big, starry, or of iron or bronze (because of its solid fixity). The tints of … Continue reading The sea was never blue

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SCIENCE CONFIRMS THAT NEARLY HALF OF THE HUMAN BODY IS MADE OF STARDUST

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by Buck Rogers, Staff Writer Waking Times “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ~Carl Sagan, Star Stuff Have you ever felt as though some part of you was not from our galaxy, that somehow you had a physical connection with the cosmos? A dramatic new study into the origins of galaxies simulated the process by which galaxies are formed and when stars within them explode. The finding offer strong evidence that nearly half of the atoms found … Continue reading SCIENCE CONFIRMS THAT NEARLY HALF OF THE HUMAN BODY IS MADE OF STARDUST

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Inside one of America’s most feared street gangs: Guns, drugs and violence are part of everyday life for the Bloodline gangsters

Fernando Kaskais

Picture series details life inside the notorious Bloodline gang, which is part of the Latin Kings organisations Members are seen brandishing drugs and guns in the chilling photos The group was founded in the 1950s and evolved into a huge criminal enterprise The series also reveals the unity and respect that members show each other  By Dave Burke For Mailonline A photographer has documented the lives of one of the biggest and most feared gangs in the US, giving chilling insight into their violent world. The images show gang members holding guns and drugs, as well as mourning friends killed in … Continue reading Inside one of America’s most feared street gangs: Guns, drugs and violence are part of everyday life for the Bloodline gangsters

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Europe’s Future Has the Face of ‘Young Muslim Immigrants’

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AP/Bernat Armangue by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS,  “If you want to see the face of Europe in 100 years, barring a miracle, look to the faces of young Muslim immigrants,” Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told a group of Catholics Thursday. Speaking at an annual conference of the Napa Institute in California, Chaput tied the future of civilization to a willingness to have children—an area where Muslims lead every other group. “Islam has a future because Islam believes in children,” Chaput said. “Without a transcendent faith that makes life worth living, there’s no reason to bear children. And where there are no children, there’s … Continue reading Europe’s Future Has the Face of ‘Young Muslim Immigrants’

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Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark

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The father of information theory built a machine to game roulette, then abandoned it. BY JIMMY SONI & ROB GOODMANILLUSTRATIONS BY JESSICA LIN Many of Claude Shannon’s off-the-clock creations were whimsical—a machine that made sarcastic remarks, for instance, or the Roman numeral calculator. Others created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and father of information theory showed a flair for the dramatic and dazzling: the trumpet that spit flames or the machine that solved Rubik’s cubes. Still other devices he built anticipated real technological innovations by more than a generation. One in particular stands out, not just because it … Continue reading Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark

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The Men Committed to Replacing Women With A.I. Sex Dolls

Fernando Kaskais

If RealDolls aren’t woman enough yet, they will be soon by C. Brian Smith Recently, a guy who goes by the screen-name numbCruncher posted something he called “Real Doll Economics” to the MGTOW forums — “MGTOW” standing for Men Going Their Own Way, and consisting of an online community of heterosexual males who’ve chosen a lifestyle that avoids legal and romantic entanglements with women at all costs. In it, numbCruncher argued that one way in which to Go His Own Way was to replace women with sex dolls and robots such as the life-like(ish) RealDoll. He began by crunching some numbs [sic throughout]: The average cost of a … Continue reading The Men Committed to Replacing Women With A.I. Sex Dolls

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DMT AND THE SPIRIT SCIENCE OF BREAKING THROUGH THE ILLUSION OF REALITY

Fernando Kaskais

by Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times The overwhelming majority of the universe is: who knows? ~Richard Panek An accounting of the matter that makes up the universe reveals that some 73% of it is made up of dark energy, and another 23% is made up of dark matter, neither of which can we see nor understand. When we look into the heavens, 96% of it is invisible to us. Furthermore, the human eye is only capable of seeing around .0035% of the entire spectrum of electromagnetic (EM) radiation. This is that tiny portion we refer to as visible light, yet EM radiation is literally everywhere, … Continue reading DMT AND THE SPIRIT SCIENCE OF BREAKING THROUGH THE ILLUSION OF REALITY