Mindfulness meditation may seem like a great idea – taking control of your conscious mind, learning to focus and concentrate and not be swept away by negative or extreme emotions. Merton doesn’t agree and instead sees it as something far less benign…
The seemingly accelerated pace of sensory bombardment – often voluntary e.g. social media – can’t feel other than bright and relevant. Zeitgeist has always been important. It is only recently, however, it’s become a disconnect, exclusive unto itself. Being contemporary is good and essential as catalyst for “what next?” asRead More
Clare Booth Luce – feminist, staunch opponent of Bible misogyny. Interesting the way her entry in Wikipedia whitewashes her feminism off the map. Ironic that one of the contemporary advocates of Luce as an antiestablishment pioneer was conservative William F Buckley. YouTube: Firing Line with Norman Mailer, another with JackRead More
Feeling proud to be a certain nationality is bullshit as it’s cheap appropriation of the achievements of others – just by dint of shared geography and ethnicity. It’s not only standing on the shoulders of giants but telling the world you’re proud how tall you are. Hard to comment onRead More
Cut and paste from a Slackchat about gutter journalism exposed by a handful of stories in the day’s newspaper.Read More
This is a sample of median video content. It’s an example of individual initiative and personal bravery using the lifeline of the internet to reach out to the global community. It’s not a story of easy virtue or happily ever after. This is NOT a Newslegion created video. [youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBl9p4JMnCI&w=854&h=480] NOTE: IfRead More
UNDER CONSTRUCTION At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive blackhole. UNDER CONSTRUCTION UNDER CONSTRUCTIONRead More
There’s no solution that’s better for the UK because by default the UK has pushed its interests to great effect since 1971. That’s the reality of the EU/UK relationship.
TEST CONTENT – UNDER CONSTRUCTION – TEST CONTENT – UNDER CONSTRUCTION This video is published under Creative Commons. We ask that the content creators be shown all due consideration if/when using their materials. Animations by Arianna Belotti: http://ariannabelotti.com [youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UqxSq19_Aw&w=854&h=480]Read More
“Most pass their days in an ever decreasing circle of only agreeable familiar things. It’s comfort. It’s natural. It ends in a gentle senile sigh. But choose instead to push against the current by daily close contact with disagreeable difficult unfamiliar things and it’s less comfortable, no longer a decreasingRead More
KNOCK KNOCK — Who’s there? — Grandpa. — Grandpa? Wait… Stop the cremation! Ten voices of the dead selected for your consideration. They’re all worth of your time.Read More
No-one would have believed, in the first decades of the 21st century, that our world was being watched from a point in space barely a few trillion miles beyond the heliosphere of our life-giving sun. “The summer sun is fading as the year grows old and darker days draw near,Read More
Dear Artificial Intelligence Experts, I have questions! Excuse the length to come – and this preamble – but I’m trying to pin down my current understanding, without straw-man or steel-man bias, to expose to an expert eye if my question is sound or built on erroneous foundation. Any insight willRead More