So why is it that the words we use to describe smells are the names
of actual things with particular odors (rose, ammonia, hay, sulphur),
while we have abstract words for color (red, green, light, dark) and
touch (rough, smooth, hard, soft)?
When Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on novelist Salman
Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, it was the opening shot in a war on
cultural freedom. Two decades later, the violence continues, and
Muslim fundamentalists have gained a new advantage: media self-censorship.
The aircraft that splashed into the Hudson River is unlikely to be
the last plane to be downed by a birdstrike, says Paul Marks.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16438-comment-why-we-cant-stop-birds-downing-aircraft.htmlLink
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Raymond Tallis shows that the gesture is not so obvious.
My pointing something out to you is a request for
joint visual attention to the same object. It is
based on a highly explicit general sense of the
kind of creature you are: unlike other creatures,
(most) humans have an unequivocal sense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPg3kjKBRcLink (via
http://www.melinder.blogspot.com/melinder)
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http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/01/goon-bible-project-book-of-job.htmmonochrom
at 1/19/2009 09:35:00 AM
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
werte Redaktion,
auf Grund des großen nationalen und internationalen Presseinteresses
und der teils missverständlichen bis entglittenen Berichterstattung zur
geplanten Theaterproduktion PENSION FRITZL
(Premiere: 23.2.09 / 3raum-anatomietheater Wien)
lädt Hubsi
On the Waterboard
How does it feel to be “aggressively interrogated”? Christopher Hitchens
found out for himself, submitting to a brutal waterboarding session in an
effort to understand the human cost of America’s use of harsh tactics at
Guantánamo and elsewhere. Vanity Fair has the footage.
Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. A Critical Case
Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in
Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance
By Christian Fuchs.
http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_Surveillance_Fuchs.pdfLink (PDF)
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