May 2011
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“In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...”
– Hannah Arendt
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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations,...”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1816 letter to George Logan. (via letterstomycountry)
some things I want to write about...
…(although who knows if I’ll get to them).
The West as warrior culture
An auto-didact’s manifesto
More on Arctic sovereignty, segueing into Arctic ecology
Introduction to democracy: forms thereof
I figure making a list will help me focus my ideas.
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“We think the [Girl Scouts’] national leadership has been infected with a radical...”
– Girl Scouts and Abortion: Pro-Life Groups Target GSUSA - The Daily Beast (via charliemielczarek)
Oh, for fuck’s sake…
(via headphonesnotrequired)
DON’T EAT THOSE ABORTION COOKIES.
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I was born in the wrong era; I would love to have...
What a load of horseshit. This is just more of the same pig ignorant, good-old-days-conservatism. (Yes, conservatism). Get your head out of the sand.
PS. The moment punk became anything other than outcast, IT WAS OVER.
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“Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay...”
– Physics and the Immortality of the Soul (via scipsy)
This is on the one hand a useful question, and on the other hand quite beside the point. The soul is an article of faith, the substance of which is something other—something we cannot yet, are perhaps ‘meant’ to never...
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“It’s high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long...”
– Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert, Maria Bustillos for The Awl.
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Extinction
How can we define extinction? Wikipedia’s usually good for clear and concise explanations:
A species becomes extinct when the last existing member of that species dies. Extinction therefore becomes a certainty when there are no surviving individuals that are able to reproduce and create a new generation. A species may become functionally extinct when only a handful of individuals...
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Conservation
How does IUCN decide what kind of conservation efforts are needed for at risk species?
In suggesting what actions are needed, assessors are asked to be realistic and not simply select everything. The selection should be for those actions that are most needed and that could realistically be achieved within the next five years.
This is how conservation efforts are classified:
1 Land/water...
