Culture

The first rule of Fight Club is to not join Fight Club | Mickey Z.

Photo: Jessica Pereira / FLICKR Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 18, 2018 I saw Fight Club in the theater when it came out in 1999. It was love at first sight. Like the well-programmed white male “radical” I was, I swooned at the anarchy and anti-corporate virtue signaling, and dutifully memorized Tyler Durden’s pithy one-liners. Over the ensuing years, I read the book a few times and re-watch ...

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New evidence supports the hypothesis that beer may have been motivation to cultivate cereals | Melissa De Witte

Credit: Oregon Health & Science UniversitySept. 12, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Stanford University archaeologists are turning the history of beer on its head. A research team led by Li Liu, a professor of Ch ...

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The ghosts of high school lessons past | Mickey Z.

Photo: Ghosts Of Rivera High School Brownsville, Texas Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 6, 2018 My family moved to a slightly “better” area of our neighborhood shortly before I turned 15. There we ...

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A Few Notes on American Magic | John Michael Greer

Lessons from the New Thought correspondence school, the Order of Essenes, opened by Burks L. Hamner in Tampa, Florida, in 1938 and shut down by his daughter some time in the early 1970s.Sept. 5, 2018 ...

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Small fish passes classic self-awareness test | Bob Yirka

Credit: Flickr/Mr. T in DC Sept. 4, 2018 (Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has found a small tropical fish that is capable of passing a classic test of self-awareness. The results ar ...

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A Farewell to Norms | Milton Mueller

Credit: Derek Bridges, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Milton Mueller -- Internet Governance Project Sept. 4, 2018 “Keep right on lying to me. That’s what I want you to do.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...

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Quantum weirdness in 'chicken or egg' paradox | Jacqui Romero

Sept. 3, 2018 (Phys.org) -- The "chicken or egg" paradox was first proposed by philosophers in Ancient Greece to describe the problem of determining cause-and-effect. Now, a team of physicists from T ...

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Homeless Women Need Your Help -- But They’re Not Helpless | Jocelyn Cheng

Credit: Mickey Z. Giving homeless women your leftovers may not be as helpful as you think. Aug. 29, 2018 (Period) -- Michael Zezima, a native of Queens, New York, is one of the few people who breaks ...

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Device harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations | Susan Trolier-McKinstry

A piezoelectric energy harvester in a novel wristwatch-like device. Credit: Penn State Aug. 31, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A wearable energy-harvesting device could generate energy from the swing of an arm w ...

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What’s the life of a single raccoon worth? | Mickey Z.

Photo: Paxson Woelber (CC BY-SA 3.0) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2018 I notice things. If I casually glance out my bedroom window -- in my apartment of more than a dozen years -- I will no ...

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An Astrological Interlude: Brexit | John Michael Greer

Aug. 29, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- The noise and bustle generated by the ongoing three-ring circus of U.S. politics in the era of Trump can make it hard sometimes to notice that performances just as co ...

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