Teju Cole on Kony and the White Savior Industrial Complex - Alexis Madrigal asks: What would it be like to have an intellectual class more like Teju Cole & less like Tom Friedman? Context. (thanks, Sarah)

Americans’ Elect - Larry Lessig argues (disagreeing with Rick Hasen) that there’s nothing wrong with the anonymity of the people behind the Americans Elect non-partisan third...

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Cheating Death: Philosophers Ponder the Afterlife - Alex Byrne in the Boston Review: Star Trek–style teleportation may one day become a reality. You step into the transporter, which instantly scans your body a...

Anton Wilhelm Amo: A Ghanaian Philosopher in 18th-Century Germany - Anton Wilhelm Amo was the first African philosopher active in Europe in the modern period (there were plenty in antiquity, but this was before 'Africa' and '...

Russian Beet Salad - I wish I were a better updater of this blog. It has, as far as I can tell, twelve whole readers -- why can't I think of them, and of their need for Romanian ...

ROOTS - I’M VERY HAPPY TO BRING YOU ANOTHER PIECE OF STUDENT WRITING FROM LAST TERM’S CLASS AT KOÇ. THE AUTHOR IS HAZAL YUMUKOĞLU, A SENIOR MAJORING IN BUSINESS AD...

Adventures at the Wichita Art Museum #8, Part II: Pairings from the Permanent Collection - Edward Hopper, Sunlight on Brownstones (1956). Image found here.Joseph Lorusso, Red Brick and Shadow (ca. 2000). Biography. Image found here.In yesterday'...

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Intervju z Dubravko Tomšič Srebotnjak -

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Greek debt crisis: Let’s not return to status quo - by Alexandros Stavrakas from: The Guardian If by “hope” we mean a feeling of yearning and expectation for something to happen, and by “change” we mean an i...

Morningcoffee – Now it is going to be a good day! - [image: Morningcoffee – Now it is going to be a good day!]

- Here are some examples of the prints I have sold for different brands

Fish on goat action - I’m off fishin’ in Norfolk in a couple of weeks, so I thought I’d consult a guide. What better place to start than the greatest fishing manual ever written...