"One Resists The Invasion Of Armies; One Does Not Resist The Invasion Of Ideas." ― Victor Hugo, Born

“Incantation. A prayer for apps and the latest whatever, sung by “the witch”. New things to try, a desperation, an automation to it. A heaviness, as if being joined by a yoke to our technology, it’s dragging us, making us pay per download. We’re it’s slave.”

Leah Kardos’s album “Machines”, a song cycle based on themes of technology, loneliness and the human condition, with lyrics derived from spam emails. (via Tom A.)

No your lordship, everybody opposing Aadhar is not following an“NGO line”: Baidik Bhattacharya

No your lordship, everybody opposing Aadhar is not following an“NGO line”: Baidik Bhattacharya

via No your lordship, everybody opposing Aadhar is not following an“NGO line”: Baidik Bhattacharya

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Adani's tax haven ties to British Virgin Islands revealed

An investigation by the ABC's Four Corners program uncovers previously unknown tax haven ties for Adani Group's Australian operations.

An investigation by the ABC's Four Corners program uncovers previously unknown tax haven ties for Adani Group's Australian operations, with key assets ultimately owned in the British Virgin Islands.

Happy Birthday, Rousseau

For Rousseau’s birthday, 21 essential reads on education – Bertrand Russell, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Isaac Asimov, Kio Stark, Richard Feynman, and more:

Egalite for All. Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (PBS) PBS documentary on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution.  It was the only successful slave insurrection in history. It grasped the full meaning of French revolutionary ideas — liberté, eqalité, fraternité — and used them to create the world’s first Black republic. It changed the trajectory of colonial economics…and led to America’s acquisition of the Louisiana territory from France. “It” was the Haitian Revolution, a movement that’s been called the true birth moment of universal human rights. Vaguely remembered today, the Haitian Revolution was a hurricane at the turn of the nineteenth century — traumatizing Southern planters and inspiring slaves and abolitionists, worldwide.

This is the one and only original manuscript of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Morgan Library and Museum displays Charles Dickens’s original manuscript of A Christmas Carol in Pierpont Morgan’s historic Library until January 13, 2013. Dickens wrote his iconic tale in a six-week flurry of activity, beginning in October 1843 and ending in time for Christmas publication. He had the manuscript bound in red morocco as a gift for his solicitor, Thomas Mitton. The manuscript then passed through several owners before Pierpont Morgan acquired it in the 1890s. 

It reveals Dickens’s method of composition, allowing us to glimpse the author at work. he began writing the story in October 1843, completing it in only six weeks. His apparently contiguous pace of writing and revision was urgent but moldly confident. The interlinear revisions increase the story’s vividness: text is struck out with a continuous looping movement of the pen and replaced with more active verbs and fewer words to achieve greater concision. Dickens sent this manuscript to the printer in early December, and the book was published in time for the Christmas market. [The Morgan, 2012] (photo: yyz2nyc)

“…people with mental illness are suffering.” – John Forbes Nash Jr., the mathematician who inspired “A Beautiful Mind” (rest in peace) [567x855] [OC] http://quotes-4u.tumblr.com/

Mother's storybook photos become viral sensation

Mother’s storybook photos become viral sensation

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When we first spotted Elena Shumilova’s photostream, her photos instantly took our breath away. The Russian photographer transports her viewers into a beautiful world that revolves around her two little sons and their adorable pets — scenes literally out of a storybook. Elena’s use of natural light, colors, and her enchanting rural surroundings have not only…

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Indigenous people of Brazil trying to prevent their eviction from an old indigenous museum which they have been living in for the past 7 years.

On March 22nd all of the inhabitants and their supporters were forcibly removed or arrested.

The building is being destroyed to make a parking lot :(