Month: July 2014
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode117 – Cake And Eat It
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode117 – Cake And Eat It which features brand new sounds from Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wand, People Get Ready, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Nightmares on Wax, Alice Boman, Andrew Bird, Ben Kweller, Wussy, David Gray, Joe Henry, Hollie Cook, Beat Connection… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode116 – Hold Tight…
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C. G. Jung and the Alchemical Renewal
from gnosis.org: The lovely little town of Knittlingen, near the Black Forrest in West Germany, is noted far-and-wide as the original residence of the famed Dr. Johannes Faustus. A plaque in the small but exquisite museum devoted to the facts and legends concerning Dr. Faust tells us that, although alchemy has often been considered a…
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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The Internet’s Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions…
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Predictive Policing And The Fantasy Of Declining Violence In America
from forbes.com: In May, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton told a City Council meeting that predictive policing “is real and it is here.” The LAPD has already implemented a predictive policing system, using a network called PredPol developed by a private company of the same name that tracks crime incidence and location to predict where crime…
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@DeadlineLive: James Evan Pilato on Borders and Boundaries
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood this month to talk about the growing border crises in North America, the Middle East and in our hearts and minds + the ‘Ultraviolence’ headlines and more on Deadline Live! (This show was cut short due to tech diff.) Download/Subscribe
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Controversial US Scientist Creates Deadly New Flu Strain For ‘Pandemic Research’
from independent.co.uk: A controversial scientist who carried out provocative research on making influenza viruses more infectious has completed his most dangerous experiment to date by deliberately creating a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system. Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has genetically manipulated the 2009 strain of pandemic flu…
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Pagans Are Really Annoyed That ISIS Took The Name Of Their Goddess
from Huffingtonpost.co.uk: The shock ubiquity of the terror group ISIS with its sudden takeover of swathes of Iraq has caused a bit of a branding problem. Isis, the ancient Egyptian goddess of nature and magic, has had her name appropriated for many products and places over the years, before the Islamic State of Iraq and…
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#Facebook’s Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense Research on Civil Unrest
from scgnews.com: It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook’s recent psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the contagion of ideas. There has been quite a bit of chatter this past week after it was revealed that a recent Facebook outage was the result of a…
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#CyberSpaceWar – Building Tiny Human Organs With 3-D Printing
from hereandnow.org: Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia has big ideas about her work with tiny organs. Using 3-D printing and human cells, she’s created a miniature human livers in her lab at MIT that can be used for testing drugs. Dr. Bhatia is part of a bio-engineering revolution that is transforming the field of medicine. She tells…