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Cleanliness is next to Ubuntuness

2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation - UN reportBut sanitation issues are somewhat improving: “Overall, about 1.2 billion people, or an increase from 78 percent in 1990 to 83 percent in 2004, had access to drinkin…
Flags as Stats

Clever Brazilian Artists. HT: Amanda Leave / read comments
War vets and book clubs

A coworker here is thinking about starting a pamphlet reading club. Where people come together to talk about current obscure and popular pamphlets and newsletters. He told me, Think of it as an alternative to the prover…
Don’t lose your marbles

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google - Bruce SterlingVisions of youthdom in the future: “It’s a weird new regime where every mall and every school and every bus and train and jet is tagged and tra…
Life after the preparation for life

The Alumni Report - littlebluetankengineThomas on life after an undergrad degree. “Then there are the rest of us in-between; the rest of us who along are trying to figure out what exactly this whole rest of our lives …
Benedict at Regensburg (and other noted things today)

It’s Muslim Boy Meets Girl, but Don’t Call It Dating - New York Times“Basically, for conservative Muslims, dating is a euphemism for premarital sex. Anyone who partakes risks being considered morally louche, with thei…
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I have family that have recently moved to Brantford, Ontario. In her first week of school, my little cousin Rene asks the teacher to clarify something, appealing to her recent move for reasonable treatment. To this the '…
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." - Alfred North Whitehead. Dialogues, June 10, 1943.Could the difference between law and justice be the differen…
Catherine: What have you done about your emotions, Leonora?Leonora: Nothing. I'm a professional scholar and I am not supposed to do anything about my emotions. You, on the other hand, have been under an obligation to do …