April 2010
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Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say... →
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h/t @brainpicker
The new role that quantum information plays in gravity sets the scene for a dramatic unification of ideas in physics
One of the hottest new ideas in physics is that gravity is an emergent phenomena; that it somehow arises from the complex interaction of simpler things.
A few month’s ago, Erik Verlinde at the the University of...
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Window seat | erykah badu
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“If you would only listen
You might just realize what you’re missing
You’re...”
– Bubble Toes, Jack Johnson [via five5five]
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“John McCain is perhaps a perfect metaphor for the Republican Party at this point...”
– The McCain Metaphor (via azspot, vruz)
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Ann Coulter spoke recently in my hometown of... →
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mohamednoordeen:
The Calgary Sun (comparable to the NY Post) wrote a small article about it.
Here’s some awesome comments (and an insight into why I would rather consume my own internal organs, alive, than move back there)
Thank God for Ann Coulter. Our universities are controlled by closet communists and…
Not Canadians, it’s just a small amount Calgarians, or more...
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Eight billion dollars got Canadians high on the... →
Interesting Article. I’m hoping it was but the long-term economic effects will be the last word probably. Although the many protests during the Olympics that weren’t given any attention in the media were pretty telling; the local groups seemed to be pretty convinced that the Olympics were a horribly bad idea for the City. I guess only time will tell?
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Ann Coulter spoke recently in my hometown of... →
The Calgary Sun (comparable to the NY Post) wrote a small article about it.
Here’s some awesome comments (and an insight into why I would rather consume my own internal organs, alive, than move back there)
Thank God for Ann Coulter. Our universities are controlled by closet communists and…
Not Canadians, it’s just a small amount Calgarians, or more precisely a certain kind of...
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WatchA promotional campaign for the legendary artist collective of the 1960’s. AfriCOBRA was an irreplaceable artistic manifestations of the civil rights movement, their art spoke history between the racial and civil unrest of the era. AfriCOBRA = “The African Commune of Bad, Relevant Artists.” This, my friends, is how you name a group! TOO sick.
President Einstein →
vruz:
—via Letters of Note
Following the death of the Israel’s first president in 1952, then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion decided to approach a certain physicist at Princeton University to replace the late Chaim Weizmann, and via the Embassy of Israel in Washington sent the following letter to Albert Einstein. Of course Einstein declined the offer, and the next day replied with an official...
Apple runs out of first week's worth of iPads, now... →
soupsoup:
Estimates are they have already sold a quarter million units.
wow.
classic-material-deactivated201 asked: That was deep.
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elzhibeth-deactivated20101205 asked: Ah, I really dont know I'm still a little confused on the matter. Trying to sort out things here and there haha, but thanks for your answer! (=
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“If you should do one thing in your life, it should be to achieve soundness of...”
– Sheik Hamza Yusuf from Al-Ghazali’s “Alchemy of Happiness”
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Museum of Tolerance premieres documentary about... →
The film, exploring Arab efforts to save Jews from the Holocaust, is based on a book by historian Robert Satloff.
[via cuntymint:jhnbrssndn:exiledsoul:nightinlondon]
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Harper government closes Human Rights Commission... →
rassilon:
Canadians living in British Columbia, Ontario and the Atlantic provinces will no longer have access to walk-in or telephone services at a CHRC office even remotely close to where they live. The urban centres where the CHRC offices are being closed represent a high percentage of racialized people. In fact, 60 per cent of all racialized people in Canada live in Vancouver, Toronto and...
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Hugs Help Heal Wounds in Divided Sri Lanka →
« Four hundred Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and mixed-race students are milling around. On a cue, each person is urged to go onto the stage and hug someone from a different ethnicity.
They leap at the chance to go onto the stage.
“If my people did anything wrong, I am sorry, I am your brother for the rest of my life,” is one of the whispers heard as the young people embrace.
It sounds...
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“In the past five years, hundreds, if not thousands, of women have been beaten,...”
– What if the soldier-as-rapist is not an aberration? « Professor, What If…? [via clingtomymouth,glitterbombing,&criticalculture]
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Ski Beatz “Aerials” feat. Curren$y, Terri Walker,...
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After seeing this... →
The Children of Palestine: A Photo Essay on Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
I’m not sure what disturbs more — the fact that Israelis are guilty of these war crimes and just how many innocent Palestinians they have killed and are still killing. Or the fact that a lot of countries support Israel and…
It’s pretty telling how one views humanity by how one views this conflict. It really is...
