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"But it may not be enough to create, to contribute, to have influenced others if one feels, as I do now, that the very culture in which one was nourished, & to which one has given one’s best in return, is itself threatened."
Dying thoughts of Oliver Sacks: https://t.co/r7Qgu8B7Ur

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"Something 'good enough' had long since been accepted by our race."

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"...E.M. Forster's prescient classic 1909 short story 'The Machine Stops,' in which Forster imagined a future in which humans lived in separate cells, communicating only by audio and visual devices..."

https://t.co/yXtXzm1RZk

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Audio of Forster's "The Machine Stops" followed by discussion:
https://t.co/r3K0ki7kxy

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Baldness might have evolved as an evolutionary advantage, so we can better process sunlight into energy as we grow older. Essentially, my body is installing solar panels. It's my own personal #GreenNewDeal.

[Mark Stryker @Mark_Stryker]

Ever heard Dexter Gordon sing? Dig this. 1964 "Big Fat Butterfly." I'm guessing Dexter picked up the tune from R&B vocalist/guitarist Saunders King, who recorded it in '43. Dexter was the first great jazz musician I saw live. I was 14. It changed my life.
https://t.co/XR6J2YnnY8

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Pitchers and catchers report this week, #Royals fans. Take it away, 81-year-old Cab Calloway...
https://t.co/pWzvsBUuzH

[Nautilus Magazine @NautilusMag]

This illusion, created by the artist Victoria Skye, was one of the top entries in the 2017 Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Believe it or not, the horizontal lines are all perfectly parallel. https://t.co/T0fTBdbm2z

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

VIDEO: From pumping water from a well to shelling a corn, a group of Guatemalan indigenous people adapt recycled bicycles into machines that help protect the local environment and support poor families

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Good piece on Distributism, although the glaring omission of a line or two about how the new "sharing economy" tech platforms could also be cooperatively owned seems curious.

[The American Conservative @amconmag]

"Chesterton and Belloc would not be impressed by arguments showing that, while American workers may be totally dispossessed of the means of production, at least they have 40-inch LCD televisions and smart phones." https://t.co/ITTzGctWlb

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@WilliamHogeland Excellent. Thanks.

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@WilliamHogeland I'm intrigued by your contention (please forgive me if I'm misstating it) that "pursuit of happiness" referred specifically to the right to further colonize/settle lands to the West. Did you cover this mostly in "Declaration" or have you written abt it elsewhere?

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Kamal Bey told the table that he'd been headbutted, as well, but no call was made. Unfortunate scene; let's hope he can use it as motivation.

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Albert Borgmann & Josh Slotnick talk about the modern proliferation of cooking shows on TV, and how we increasingly offload (onto experts) the comprehension and competence that were once more broadly possessed:

https://t.co/3x3LE3AhJo

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Baseball figures prominently in the Harris Collection. Here are all 567 photos tagged "baseball" - including iconic Jackie Robinson/Branch Rickey shots, & another that looks to be Willie Mays with 8-year-old Ozzie Virgil Jr.: https://t.co/4r5VsXsTaR @nlbmprez #BlackHistoryMonth

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The Charles “Teenie” Harris photography collection @cmoa
https://t.co/Ukjksl5nqO

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Some good examples:
1) https://t.co/TOBVQUGmeo

2) https://t.co/U68obC8RqJ

3) https://t.co/TXEED0QdnH

4) https://t.co/xseNSvraPH

5) https://t.co/MoEHLPxTFu

6) https://t.co/yXn8tst3Qy

Including some cool pics of Pittsburgh Crawfords players, @nlbmprez! #BlackHistoryMonth

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Lovely interview with Ray Charles from 1959: "I think a lot of the hillbilly music is wonderful stuff. When I was a kid in Greenville, Fla., I used to play piano in a hillbilly band. I liked it. I think I could do a good job with the right hillbilly song today."

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"Art is a revolt against man's fate." -Andre Malraux

"My work is a visual plea for sanity. It’s really quite simple." -Richard Notkin

https://t.co/ojtOmoaPIw

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Monk's Music (1957)

https://t.co/GLFqW8Y39B